*** You can find all individual landscapes at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Landscapes%20Unlimited/119/135/56 ***
These sky landscapes are made of high quality sculpted mega prims with baked textures.
SIZE: 125x125 m (or 1/4 region)
INNOVATIONS
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- All surface textures have normal maps. These normal maps dramatically increase the details seen on the landscape surface, especially when your sun has a low altitude (i.e. sunrise, sunset). NOTE: normal maps can only be seen when Advanced Lighting is enabled!
- With the HUD you can change seasons. All four seasons can be chosen (not available in Tropical Paradise Sky Landscape - there are no seasons in the tropics!).
- All tree textures have normal maps as well, which makes them appear to have a 3D shape, like real trees do. Even when being lit from behind, the trees appear to have a realistic shape and lighting.
- These landscapes have waterfalls: Andaman Islands, Highlands Coast, Patagonia and Tropical Paradise. Waterfalls are animated in such a way that lag is as low as possible, using frames instead of smooth animation. The waterfall textures also have normal maps, which makes the water appear as 3D
- The trees further away from the sim are "billboards", which means they only have one side exactly facing the sim. By using this technique, one single mega prim can have as many as 42 trees. Trees closer to the sim have four sides so they look better when you move around on your sim or cam around
OTHER PROPERTIES
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- You can remove all unnecessary scripts after deploy or reset them in case of problems (Advanced Menu, brought up by touching the landscape for 5 seconds)
- This landscape does not obstruct any kind of sit animations (excluded from Physics system)
- 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 the demo first!)
- Matching terrain textures for all seasons are included
- A version with and one without trees are included. Don't want the trees? Use the [NO TREES] version, it will save you land impact
- Besides switching between seasons, the HUD lets you change other landscape properties as well, like glow, brightness, tree type, water type etc.
- SMALL AND MEDIUM LANDSCAPES: You can rez solid mesh land in the middle of your sky landscape by using a menu (or by using the mesh Solid Sky terrain objects in your inventory). You can adjust their textures by using a separate menu: touch the mesh object to bring up this menu. All mesh items are part of your purchase (copy-mod, only with SMALL AND MEDIUM LANDSCAPES. You can use your own textures on them).
- The separately purchasable Solid Mesh Terrains are very suitable for LARGE SKY LANDSCAPES. They have matching textures.
LAND IMPACT
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Andaman Islands: 84 (54 without trees)
Gorges du Verdon: 96 (36)
Hebrides: 96 (36)
Highlands Coast: 144 (80)
Patagonia: 164 (96)
Porto Coast: 96 (36)
Sweetwater Valley: 164 (44)
Tropical Paradise: 144 (80)
IMPORTANT
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Before using this landscape, set your DRAW DISTANCE to at least 250m and disable LIMIT SELECT DISTANCE in the Advanced menu of your viewer.
- These highly detailed sky landscapes offer your place a natural 3D panorama
- Change seasons setup by HUD; pick fir, pine or palm trees
- Pick any of 254 terrain textures for the surround surface or use your own
- Customize textures: color, glow, repeat factor. Some with animated waterfalls
- Item called: FAT PACK All Version 6.1 Small Skybox Environments