Forest Pack (Promo Price)

You get a lot of items for a 100 L$ here and it's nice to get it all in one package rather than having to shop around. But even so:

The trees look good, not spectacular but well above average. Extremely prim heavy though. And prim leaves do not look better than sculpt ones neither at a distance nor under tricky windlights. I placed them among a mixed bunch of sculpt, mesh and Linden trees and they didn't do any better than the others.

Three of the grass/plant patches are just clumsy, low quality attempts at sculpt vegetation. But the ferns are really good. So good that they alone *might* be worth the 100 L$.

The poppy flowers are the kind they teach at beginners' builder classes. The less said about them, the better.

The mushrooms are mediocre, I've seen better freebies.

The sound scripts are OK but not more and again, you can get as good or better as freebies. There is of course a question whether it's a good idea to use a constantly running script to do something that can easily be done as a scriptless prim property but it's not that important. You won't use that many sound scripts in a sim anyway.

The fireflies are just crude green particle dots. Don't look like fireflies at all.

The sun beams really are among the best I've seen. They better be though, they use four times as many prims as sunbeams usually do.

The ground textures: The forest floor texture is quite interesting. I'm not sure it's a very useful one but it's certainly different (in a good way) from other ground textures I've seen. The other two are bland standard ones. You can find similar ones in your library folder or in just about any freebie texture collection you find.

Five years ago this package might have been great but most of the content here is outdated by today's standards. There are some good stuff here though - especially if you have a lot of prims to spare - and 100 L$ isn't much money. It might be worth it but I'm not sure.