Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style
There are a few creators doing their best to make the process of winterizing your Second Life home as easy as possible with snow that's perfectly fitted to their prefabs. Although many home designers use this as an opportunity to push only their newest houses or design special houses just for the winter, Barnesworth Anubis (a granddaddy of the prefab home business in SL) has released snow caps for every home he's created in 2013... Skyboxes excepted, of course. That means you won't have to move into a new house just for a little seasonal atmosphere, if you already live in one of his stylish prefabs.
These aren't just for your roof, either. They include piles for the stoops and stairs, uneven and brushed away where you would see regular foot traffic, as well as a few decorative piles for the yard. That's a nice detail, but even nicer is the fact that they can be retextured with the snow texture of you choosing, even the ground texture used on the sim if you have it handy.
Pick a set up for yourself (L$100 each) in-world at Barnesworth's store [SLURL] or on the SL Marketplace, and let me know what your favorite way to bring the season into SL is in the comments below.
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Iris Ophelia (@bleatingheart, Janine Hawkins IRL) has been featured in the New York Timesand has spoken about SL-based design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan andwith pop culture/fashion maven Johanna Blakley.
Noooooo...
I finally managed to get rid of the 'mother in law house' spot I'd had on my land and put up a Gazebo instead... and you go and link me to a bunch of nice houses that could fit that spot... O.o
Ack.
Was actually looking at his industrial lot the other day, then eyeing my land, then looking at it, then eyeing my land... and then I managed to find a way to distract myself. :)
Posted by: Pussycat Catnap | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Looks freaking cold to me. If I'm ever going to get that much snow on my house then I hope it's in SL and not RL.
Posted by: Amanda Dallin | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 05:09 PM
thanks for the feature iris! Cory edo did some snow caps too if you have a Trompe Loeil prefab. We worked together on them actually! http://trompeloeil.biz/
Posted by: barnes | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 02:41 PM