Friday, November 30, 2007

Dungeons & Things with Teeth...




Brochure: You need a quality place for certain things, and privacy to boot, both of which you can find in your own private dungeon skybox. This dungeon is gorgeously textured with one way windows, dark stone, a fireplace to keep you warm, and gold leafed columns that hint at the fine things going on out of reach of the ones subject to your will, the raised platform makes a perfect overlook to watch the goings on. Built in a low prim manner this is expertly textured with fine details yet the privacy one needs when using such spaces.

And now with every one of our skyboxes comes an amazing teleporter that requires no scripting and no notecards to configure, it's extremely simple to set up and will serve you well. Made by Fnordian Furniture, whose items you can see at http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=225731

This was built as a private escape, made with the inspiration of a vampire friend whose name it honors.

This skybox is 20x20 and fits on a 1025 lot with plenty of room to spare. This requires a teleporter or landmark and has no doors. It takes 29 prims. I have other designs that will suit any lot size you have. Check my other items.
The Story: This one was fun, inspiration from a bunch of different people and work with a scripter for one of the great things I personally had a hand in concept and development. I kept getting requests for dungeons in my castles, and though they are easy to do I thought it might be nice to have one people could buy and install easily. The problem with SecondLife dungeons is this, if you dig far enough in the ground, you get water. So your dungeon floods. The easiest way around this is to make it look like you have a dungeon by using teleports. Problem with this is that most teleporters look very modern, and I wanted something that fit in the gothic theme, yet I was still in my 'builds for new residents' mode and wanted something easy to set up. Many many teleports require editing of config files and make designing webpages with multiuser links easy.
So I started scouring SLX and I found Fnordiporters. You can look at his other stuff here. I liked his design, but it wasn't quite what I wanted, so together we came up with a teleporter that didn't need notecards. It's a bit silly but you pop down one pad and wear a magic wand, touch the other pad then go back and touch the original. The script in the magic wand stores the locations and changes the configs without having to edit them at all, which is nice for those of us who just want things to work. As a result every skybox that I make has a rebranded one of these. The skybox itself is pretty simple, although the fire texture was fun to work out. I like the way it turned out, in fact I use a larger modifed one of these as my personal retreat. I hope you like it.
P.S. I didn't procrastinate.
P.S.S The title refers to this being named for a Ventrue vampire princess who is still a dear friend.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Massively something....

Well, I'm back from my seventh eye surgery. I shouldn't say it that way, I've actually been cleared by the Doc and am back to work in both real life and SecondLife. I've missed it but my friends have welcomed me back and it's like I never left so that's wonderful.

I've been extremely neglectful of this site and yet I've still gotten comments, for this I am thankful and I will be contacting you people soon with massive thanks, and little gifts.

I've added a sidebar element tapping into the Massively secondlife feed. Massively is what Secondlifeinsider became when they consolidated into the massive corporate overblog they are today, but they are still the same great people. Check em out if you feel bored at work.

Next post on my builds coming soon! Within the week I promise.... course... I'm also a procrastinator.

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