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The Rueful Sandbox Architect

Two days ago, whilst working on a vendor for selling some of my rather indifferent furnishings, I observed a woman enter my gallery.

We spoke — rather, her User and mine did — and she had some choice observations on my User’s travel tastes. She also had some choice comments on the gallery, which it has to be said, are well deserved.

The gallery can be politely described as “boxy”, for one, and “overlarge” for another, and “badly designed” for a third. As one who prides himself on making items of beauty, the unlovely utilitarian structure in which my artworks cringe is an embarrassment.

Thus, with the eager promptings of my User, who has been embarking on activities with pencils and paper, I first besought myself to Plum’s sandbox, whence a blind alley was explored and mercifully scrapped. After a momentary hiatus engendered by my User requiring dinner, I applied first to Sandbox Wanderton, then fled to neighbouring Sandbox Goguen to escape a plethora of mumbling spamcubes.

At this time, I should illustrate a clever method of erecting a sky platform without need of scripted items:

  1. Create a Box;
  2. Be seated on same;
  3. Edit your seat’s location, especially the Z position, by entering the appropriate altitude;
  4. Edit its size to, say, 10×10m wide, causing it to balloon around your now obscured nether limbs;
  5. Stand up, and lo! You have a fine platform from which to commence construction.

By this measure, I found myself with the space required to commence erection of a fine-looking structure, which shall incorporate a nice garden, surrounded by canopied stands enticing visitors to enter the main building at the back, which shall be three stories high and possibly involve a cupola and other Greek-Mediterranean-inspired elements.

However, while great strides are being made in this regard, my User is muttering about his guitar. It seems that in order to continue this great work, I shall have to war with him until this is finished.

Posted in Second Life (,) by Martien Pontecorvo Aug 14, 07:00 PM Tags: , ,

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