I'm very excited about this!! Low-prim animatable plants have long been something that I wanted to make - but have not been possible until now!. Check out the video link below or come see it in world!
Please note - this mesh is 1 PE (prim equivalent) as delivered at this size and script content - the physics shape type is convex hull and the object is phantom At 10 x 10 the PE/LI is 2.. Changes to properties size, scripts and linking to other items will change the prim equivalent, sometimes radically.
HOWEVER! You CAN link this field at the delivered specs to a small phantom cube that you made as root and remain at 1 PE AND you will show as creator - please do so. Id rather not show as creator on your artwork :)
4 SIDES OR FACES:
This field of plant clumps has 4 sides or faces. Three are plant forms and one is the ground cover. You texture these just as you would texture a single face on a prim - while in edit use select texture and click on the face you wish to texture.
Take a moment to process that - you can have FOUR textures on this 1 prim mesh plant field!! Gawd I love this.
To make life easy, if you lift up the whole thing - on the underside you can see a little panel of 3 faces hanging down. When you texture one of these 3 faces on the panel underneath, you will also be changing that same "face" on the plants above the ground cover. If you change repeats, offsets or rotation on once "face" all of the same numbered faces are affected. This was a nifty idea by Red Barnside.
I did not include a separate face helper for the ground cover because its easy to select in edit. You can apply any texture you like - grass, dirt, sand or water. If you do not wish ground cover - just make that face 100% transparent or add a totally transparent texture. Ground cover was also an idea by Red Barnside.
But wait! there's more!!
ANIMATION:
You can animate a face! YES - on a single prim plant field, you can have lovely organic motion. That is another beauty of mesh - it does cooperate with texture animation scripts!.
The included grassy textures were made to go with my DBS meadow grass set (see related items). But one set of normal and animatable textures is desaturated - so you can tint in world to your liking, or download and color as you like.
Mix this with your sculpty fields for a lovely animated organic look. Play! have fun! roll in the grass!
PERMISSIONS:
My meshes textures and sculpt maps are sold with full permissions, and are meant to be used in your creations. Consider the creations that incorporate my textures to be free to sell or give away as you wish - they are your objects and you should enjoy the fruits of your labor.
However, do not resell my DBS meshes, textures or maps themselves, nor give the build components away, neither in SL nor outside of it. A lot of work and care went into each mesh, texture or sculpt and I ask that you respect my right as a creator, as you expect others to respect yours.
You may not sell or give out my meshes full perm - they must be no copy OR no transfer. Please make my meshes part of your build, or attach a small root prim that you have created so that you show as creator. Do not simply sell a stand-alone copy of my examples - make a build that shows your artistry. You don't want your customers contacting me for support do you? Good - neither do I :)
Creatively Yours,
Sea Warcliffe
Deep Blue Sea designs
- 1 PE/ LI at 8 x 8 x 2.5 meters with animation script & linked to a small prim
- 3 faces on plants & 1 on ground cover - 4 different texturing faces!
- One full perm mesh form
- 7 textures and 3 scripts and instructions and examples
- Full perm for builders







