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 118, without trees 58
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 three layouts, for one single region island 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!
Its ok / ganz ok
The surround looks quite well done, but unfortunately it has a bug that the creator admits but refuses to fix.
You can't connect to the texture HUD once you've clicked Finalize in the object's menu. The creator admits this. However, with a season, you might assume that the connection between the texture HUD and the object always works. But it doesn't.
According to the creator, you should either delete the object and rez it again to change the texture, or you shouldn't click Finalize. However, this makes the rezzer script useless and permanently active. Which is absolutely unnecessary, since it wastes unnecessary sim performance.
Furthermore, a script error often occurs with a nice llRegionSay that can't be executed on channel 0. This is something that belongs to the texture HUD and the object when they try to communicate.
He's aware of the errors, but he's not offering a refund, so I'm leaving this honest review for everyone to know.
If you refund me the purchase price, I will delete my review. After the refund, the item will be immediately deleted from my inventory as proof, including screenshots.
hud not working
very nice achievement, unfortunately, the link with the hud does not work despite the creator's recommendations (several unsuccessful attempts)
Perfect - Stunning Surround
What can I say - perfection? You pay for what you get and this surround is quality and looks very realistic
Covers my 2 sims
I've used other sim surrounds and solid sky landscapes from Landscapes unlimited for years. I had stopped using them on my main build because I could not get them to fit 2 sims side by side (with a third planned in an L).
Well, this is the first sim surround I've gotten from anywhere that fits nicely with 2 sims and does not look like the area is surrounded by a block.
The scenery itself looks natural and with the supplied textures blends perfectly with my forested sim area.
It's expensive, but I'm very happy with this purchase.
On a side note, if you have the planets sim surround and you had them near the horizon like me, you'll need to lift them up over the mountains and the planets are closer than the mountains.
And though I did not buy them in the end, the starry sky fits perfectly with this sim surround with the stars and milky way beyond the mountains.
Teriffic Sim Surround Addition
This set of objects greatly enhanses the appearance of any sim. I have used this on my mideval sim and on my modern glass house sim both scenes benefited and gave the sim an "open" appearance. I have even used this sim surround theme in an elevated sky-box application. All I can say is "WOW"! The depth of field is fantastic and it gives the viewer the real feeling of being in an Alpine valley.
Beautiful!
This is just what I was looking for! It has different variations to choose from in terms of shape and the ability to not only change the texture of the entire surround but also comes with textures to match your land to it! (provided you have the ability to do so!) It's a lovely addition to my sim and really makes it feel like a retreat in the middle of the mountains rather than an island in the middle of a vast ocean! If you're unsure about it, there's a demo and its all the features available to try, only with the demo sign in the way of course but it's what sold me on getting this! Well done!
