B.A - Chateau de Tanay

Chateau de Tanay is beautifully crafted and excellent; it offers much of the same impressive grandeur of similar structures yet as a rather compact package, fits in relatively limited spaces.

However, I sincerely wish the building comes in one, all-inclusive form; in an easy-to-use rezbox perhaps, like many other buildings in Second Life that can be conveniently put out and put away, rather than painstakingly having to put together each of the pieces and align them all neatly. It's not so much a fine distinction of craftsmanship rather than a purely impractical hassle.

The product description doesn't say anything about how it comes; the building itself comes in three parts which you have to manually align (the outer exterior shell, the interior walls and windows) and the rest are doors (yes, each door is not attached to the building out of the box but comes as individual, separate objects) which you have to place in each of the empty doorways of the building.

Each of the more than almost a dozen individual doors are (frankly quite roughly) numbered from 5 onwards and come in a pair that must be placed in a specific location on the building, consecutively in numerical or chronological order, clockwise from the main entrance.

It's quite painstaking and difficult to align well enough, and it's far too easy to accidentally delete important parts of the building; I have apparently done so on multiple occasions without realizing and have found the doors completely missing and having to do it all over again; also having to realign the entire parts of the building (walls, exterior, windows etc.) all over again, never quite being able to align it as well as I had done the first time around, leaving large gaping holes in the doorways, ceilings and windows. If I move one part to fix it, another will move out of alignment. Alas.

It's a beautiful product, but such a shame that it's so finicky. I wish it would be updated to be linked entirely out of the box.