DON'T BUY THIS SWIMMING POOL if you’re looking for a simple piece of furniture.
DON'T BUY THIS SWIMMING POOL if you just want to sit your avatar and use a menu to cycle through stationary poses.
DON’T BUY THIS SWIMMING POOL if you're looking for a decorative one just to look at it and picture yourself having fun in it.
This swimming pool is different from any other on the grid : IT WASN'T MADE TO LOOK PRETTY AND JUST PRETEND...
It’s purpose is to let you have fun using it just like a real one. You can actually :
- freely swim in it (breaststroke and crawl, at the surface and underwater) with other avatars ;
- dive (head first / splash bomb / back flip) into the water to directly find yourself ready to swim freely ;
- play with freely floating toys (included) ;
- freely move in the water sitting on Ethereallusions inner tubes (included) or clinging to inflatable orcas (also included) ;
- float on your back in the water ;
- use the pool ladder to get off the water ;
- change the poolside and pool textures using a menu.
And you can do ALL THAT in a very EASY and INTUITIVE way, without the use of any ugly poseball nor any attachment.
This is how it works (you could figure out most of this by yourself) :
- Use the control panel (touching the small wooden trapdoor near the side of the pool) to fill or drain the pool ; you can choose between two types of water depending on how you want to start swimming (besides just diving in the water) :
-> AutoSwim
1) You might need to turn your AO off.
2) Walk in the water until it's deep enough to swim.
3) A ripple effect will appear around you with a splash sound : touch the ripple.
4) Once swimming, use the same keys you use when flying to move.
5) Press left+right to switch between breaststroke and crawl swim styles.
When standing in the water, you can at any time touch the water close around you to find yourself swimmingcrawl sim styles.
-> ManualSwim
1) You might need to turn your AO off.
2) Touch the surface of the water twice to start swimming from the center of the area.
3) Use the same keys you use when flying to move.
4) Press left+right to switch swim styles.
- To dive from the diving board, touch it to get the menu and pick up the diving style you want to enjoy (head first, splash bomb, back flip), then touch again the front of the board.
- To dive head first from the poolside find the water puddle on the side of the pool (next to the pool ladder) and touch it twice : you’ll dive in head first and find yourself swimming.
- To float on your back, right click the water surface and sit (up to 3 avatars at the same time).
- Use the control panel to turn the lights on/off or to set them to automatically switch on/off according to the region time.
- Use the control panel to rez inflatable toys and tubes (the tubes are temporary by default but are modifiable so you can set them not temporary once they’re rezzed).
- When sitting on the inner tubes or on the inflatable orcas, use the directional keys to move.
- To sit by the side of the pool, right click it and sit.
- Sit on the pool ladder to use it to get off the water.
- Due to how SL works, if you’re already sitting somewhere, you can’t touch a prim to sit, even if that prim is set to work that way : you’ll then need to right click it and sit.
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Changelog :
v 1.1
- You can now float by clicking the ripple around you while treading water ;
- the under-treading-water animation is now different from the surface one ;
- replaced the breaststroke back swimming animation with a better one ;
- added a back crawling animation (when you swim backward after switching from breaststroke to crawl) ;
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