MEGA SURROUND 7.0
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INNOVATIONS
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- This landscape is bigger than all previous off-sim landscapes: the visible surface is twice as big. This gives more more room for water around the sim and also to combine softly rolling hills with steep mountains in the back. Mountains can be much higher.
- Each landscape has twelve texture sets, representing all months of the year. With this you can move from one seasons to another in small instead of big steps.
- There are more off-sim trees per land impact (as much as 1800 tree panels on a full landscape!).
- The snow patches emit a some light in dark environment settings, with Advanced Lighting enabled.
- The tree textures have been changed to give a better forest look instead of a lot of single trees. The ground textures have a matching texture where there is forest, also giving a better idea of a forest.
- You can use either mixed forest (pines and deciduous trees) or only pine trees.
- There is more color variation in tree textures, giving a more natural look to the landscape
OTHER PROPERTIES
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- The Starry Night system just goes outside the last ridge of hills and mountains, so they go toegther perfectly!
- All surface textures and tree textures have normal maps. These normal maps improve the details you can see on the landscape surface, and they give the trees a natural rounded shape. NOTE: normal maps can only be seen when Advanced Lighting is enabled!
- The trees are made as "billboards", which means they only have one side exactly facing the sim. By using this technique, one single mega prim can have more than 60 tree panels.
- You can remove all unnecessary scripts after deploy or reset them in case of problems (Advanced Menu, brought up by touching the landscape for 3 seconds)
- This landscape does not obstruct any kind of sit animations
- It is copyable: keep a copy in your inventory and you can't lose it (but also can't give it back for a refund... get a free demo first!)
- Matching terrain textures are included
- A version with and one without trees are included. Don't want the trees? Use the [NO TREES] version, it will save land impact
LAND IMPACT
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With trees 92, without trees 44
WHERE TO USE IT
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- This landscape is very big. Make sure you do not cover other regions with it. Other regions that are close to yours on the world map, but that do not share one full side with it will NOT be affected. Regions that touch at the corners are not a problem.
- This landscape is meant for use at sim ground level. You can use it in the sky as well, but you need prim water to complete it
- You can use it on homesteads and full sims
IMPORTANT
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Read the Instructions (Mega Surrounds 7.0) before rezzing this landscape item.
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Sominel Edelman,
landscapes Unlimited
http://landscapesunlimited.blogspot.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135478915@N04/
- Detailed off-sim sim surround landscape offers your region a natural 3D view
- Comes in two layouts, for island region or homestead or combined regions
- Choose 12 texture sets by HUD for each month of the year (covers 4 seasons)
- Either choose mixed forest, fir trees or no trees. All textures have materials
- Bigger than all other existing off-sim landscapes, more immersive!
Love the item but issue with recommended related product pairing...
Love this item and I'm so happy to have a surround that actually give an appearance of volume and size. My only big complaint is that I bought this specifically to use with the OFF-Sim Starry Sky (and it even says it works well with that item), but the surround is much bigger than the Starry Sky item's dome is, so it cuts into the surround badly in places -- showing stars over the mountain, hiding parts of the mountains and awkwardly forcing the moon to raise within the mountains. Given the price, I'm a bit frustrated at this esp since it was listed in the description. A larger sized Starry Sky would solve the problem well, but if a new item is simply released I'm a bit irritated having to buy it when the current description says they pair ;-;
Beautiful sim surround, great detail and great li -- one of the best, if not the best I've used recently....but I feel kind of like there's a bit of false advertising to push for a second product when it's not suited for use together.
