Off-sim Sandy Beach with Jump-Off-Sim Animation

— Adjusts size to fit your parcel
— Dialog for choosing different sizes
— You can jump offsim onto the sand!
— And hop from one spot to another!
— Uses a megaprim to keep the prim count low
— Comes with a free Offsim Beach Umbrella

Like every other offsim item, this sandy beach takes advantage of property on the edge of a sim that has no adjacent sim. Normally in this situation, SL paints ocean in these places where "There Is No There There". Some of us refer to this as The Void Sea. If you are fortunate enough to have shorefront property of this sort, it is possible to hang items (like this sandy beach) out over the edge. This makes your property seem larger and improves the view. (The prims used to make these offsim items still count towards the total number of prims your property supports). This is sometimes called a sim extender.

The edge of the sim usually starts as a flat sharp edge a few meters above the Void Sea. You can improve this by pushing the edge underwater with terraforming tools, but this uses up some of your valuable real estate. Instead, this sandy beach is designed to mate up with the sharp flat edge and visually extend your property about 28 meters offshore (half of that may be under water). This sandy beach slopes down at the edges to make your property look like it gently enters the water. This works best on the edges of flat parcels, but can be adjusted to work with some variation in height. The beach comes with a variety of sizes and will work at many different distances above the water.

Besides making your parcel SEEM larger, this sandy beach actually allows your avatar to use the extra space! You can jump off-sim onto this beach and hop around on the sand! You and all your friends could have a party on the Void Sea. To jump offsim, you must first sit on the beach. Then you can click anywhere (withing 16 meters of your last location) on the sandy beach and your avatar will jump to that location.

Normal items in SL cannot be placed offsim, so you cannot just place them on this beach. However, this sandy beach also works with Ocean Enginering compatible Offsim Beach Toys (and snow Toys). So you can add beach chairs, umbrellas and other items as they become available. If you are a builder, the protocol and sample build for making Offsim Beach Toys is available for free. Send an IM to Kayaker Magic for more information. To get you started a free offsim beach umbrella (3 prims COPY) is included. Rez the umbrella near the beach, it will move offshore. Click on it, then a spot on the beach, it will move itself to that new location offsim.

Visit my Ocean Engineering Store to see more products that use the Void Sea. Find links to my stores at http://magic.kayaker.net

Customizing:
You can customize the sandy beach in a number of ways. The build tools can be used to slide the sandy beach left and right along the shoreline. Although not aesthetically designed for this, the sandy beach can be raised above the ground level and used as a sand dune. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE SIZE of the sandy beach with the build tools. The offshore part of the sandy beach is a megaprim and if you try to change the size, it will snap down to only 10 meters by 10 meters.

To allow changing size, the sandy beach has a library of megaprims stored inside and can switch between them. There are only a limited number of sizes available, sorry but that is part of the nature of megaprims. Please be carful and do not create a sandy beach so large that it hangs over in front of or onto any neighboring parcels.

If your parcel is not perfectly flat, you can use the build menu / edit linked parts / select the sandy beach then move it up until it covers all the irregularities of your land. If this brings the bottom of the sandy beach out of the water, then first use the dialog box to choose a taller snowbank, then position it to cover the irregularities. Snowbanks can be as tall as 6 meters, so you should be able to cover a reasonable range of land edges. If you make the sandy beach 6 meters tall and pull it mostly out of the water, it does a reasonable job of looking like a sand dune. But you can jump onto and climb this sand dune!
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