I’m eight and a half years old in Second Life. For nearly all those years, I lived in a house that my old partner Aeon built. We started out with a L$99 loft that I’d bought to be my in-world shop before I met Aeon, but by early 2015, we’d moved into Snug Harbour (yes, Heinlein reference, we’re both fans).
Aeon came up with the concept for the house and built it in Blender as only her second ever Blender project. I thought to myself “that will give me plenty of time to write the scripts”, but no, Aeon finished it in less than a week, which put the pressure on me to finish the scripting 🙂
I was looking for an exact date and I thought I’d written a blog post when I took down the old loft and put the new house in place, but it turns out it pre-dates the first entry in this blog, so I must be imagining things. But my first script saves were in early 2015, so that would make it at least seven years in that house! There are plenty of photos taken both inside and outside the house on the blog, and I enjoyed it as you do a home, somewhere familiar to hang your hat 🙂
All this is leading to the fact that I bought a new house! I saw a fab one by Trompe Loeil at this month’s Uber, and it immediately spoke to me. But would it fit on one of my 32x32m parcels, and leave me enough space for a my trees and the telescope?? Yes!
As you can see (or may have noticed before) I live on a platform in the sky. This is because I live in a shared residential region, and living in a skybox or on a platform offers you some level of privacy (and it also lets me maintain a park and greenhouse at ground level for other people to enjoy).
The house dimensions are 30x23m which left me with a nice little 9m wide strip to fit my trees and the telescope.
The house itself is spacious with its two levels. The top floor features two walls to you could move or delete to open the floor space up even more. The ground floor features a (non-scripted) kitchen that you could also delete if that’s not your style. I only have a couple of nits, the first being that there is no stair access to the roof. Considering the stairwell goes to that level too.
Another issue is the moveable walls on the top level. For some reason, they have an invisible mesh plane at the bottom of them. On the one next to the stairs, the plane pokes into the stairwell and you collide with it on the way up and down. Thinking outside the box for this one, I turned the wall upside down, which put the plane in the ceiling out of the way 🙂
Trompe Loeil uses a modular script system for house control. While it does have an access list allowing people to open doors and use the lights and window blinds, it has no security system to actually keep people out of the house. It also lacks radio and fireplace control (the fire is controlled by clicking the fireplace), so I’ll replace it with my own.
The house comes in at 74 land impact and costs L$625 at this month’s Uber event. You’ll need to hurry if you want to grab it as Uber closes in two days.
House: Cilje Modern Ranch by Trompe Loeil available at this month’s Uber event
