Falling autumn leaves machine

With this Autumn Leaves machine you fill the air with slowly falling autumn leaves, a bit like big snow flakes. The autumn leaves are particles, so they won't lag the sim as much as with temp-on-rez objects. However, the leaves do not swirl.

NOTE: DON"T UNPACK THE BOX, THE BOX *IS* THE LEAVE GENERATING MACHINE.

You can very easily let it "snow" over an arbitrary large piece of land, without the need to place many generators in the sky manually. This machine does it all for you automatically... One satisfied customer used the white snow version of this machine to cover a complete sim :-)

(a winter version with snow is also available)

Features:
- easy menu operation: just touch it for a self-explanatory menu
- intensity can be set to light, medium or heavy
- length and width of area to be covered can be set in increments of 10 m
- automatically rezzes enough generators in the sky to cover the whole area
- each generator covers (roughly) a 10x10 m square
- configurable height of generators: 10, 15 or 20m
- very efficient particle use
- generators are automatically deleted if machine is removed

You can play with a demo version on the sky platform above my shop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kola/28/168/501

Prim usage:
- 1 prim for the Autumn Leaves machine
- 1 prim for each 10x10 meter to be covered

Limitations:
- the total number of particles you can see is limited. If there are a lot of other particle generators around (smoking chimneys, fire, fog etc), then the "snow" might not be as thick and even as intended.
- particles have a limited lifetime. If you place the machine on top of a tower, then the leaves might not make it all the way to the ground.
- one machine can only cover a rectangular area. If you want to cover, for instance, an L-shaped land, use multiple machines, each covering a rectangle.
- the covered rectangle is always aligned with North-South, East-West lines.
- the rectangle can not be rotated over arbitrary angles.
- works only within a single sim
- the leaves don't stop at the roof, so they will fall inside your house too :-) As a work-around, you can use multiple machines, each covering a rectangular piece of land *outside* your house.

How to use:
- Place the autumn leaves machine in the center of the area to be covered
- Everything is controlled from the pop-up menu. Touch the machine to call-up the menu
- The default coverage is 20x20 meter. To change the size, touch the machine, click the X-size and/or Y-size buttons to call up the X-size or Y-size menus. The size can be changed in 10, 20 or 50 meter increments.
- Select the intensity you want: Light, Medium or Heavy
- Click Start button to start, Stop button to stop.
- Wait about 10 seconds for the first leaves to reach the ground
- If desired, you can change the height of the generators.
- If you later change the size of the covered area, you must stop and start the machine
- If you move the machine after starting the snow, the generators in the sky do *not* move with the box. You can use this feature to hide the box after starting (but do not delete it, you need the box to keep the generators alive!)

Nice to know:
- If one or more generators unintentionally end up in another sim, they will die after approx a minute
- The constellation of generators is always positioned such that the snow machine box is exactly in the center. After starting the machine, you can move the box to any more convenient location.

- If you use multiple meachines, each box controls its own generators. No interference occurs between multiple machines.

Permissions:
- Copy: Yes, so you use as many as you wish
- Modify: Yes, so you can adjust size, color etc of the machine
- Transfer: No, so you cannot give this to a friend as a present.

Creator: Yabu Kurosawa
Shop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kola/29/170/22

Extra keywords: falling leaves fall autumn particles swirling leaves september october november emitter poofer