IJD CLOUD BOX INFO
My Problem: I have a mainland sim, when the skies around my ground level became cluttered, I started setting up platforms in the sky to get above the clutter. So did others around me and now at any level the sky is not pristine, but full of people's stuff. It no longer looks like the sky.
My Solution: Create a shroud that has a moving sky inside, with clouds or stars, or simply blue sky that fits over my land and hides it from the exterior clutter.
What is a Cloud Box?
Your own enclosed environment, complete with dynamic, moving sky. It is a sculpted mega prim dome of sorts with moving sky textures on the inside to create a fully enclosed visual space. A solid base is included to allow it to act like skybox, but can be removed if you wish. The dome is squared at the base to use as much parcel area as possible on the interior, and then the rounded corners become fully round at the top to help create the illusion of a seamless sky that is constantly in motion. By simply clicking on the sky you can change to any of the 12 sky textures to fit your needs. Blue skies, cloudy skies, red clouds, black clouds, starry nights, or clouds with stars, 12 different themes slowly roll across your private sky. All textures are Fullbright for best effect.
Holding down your left mouse button for 3 seconds will bring up a HUD that gives you options to allow only the owner, only members of the group the cloud box is set to, or just allow anyone at all, to click and change the sky textures.
The IJD Cloud Box is only made of 2 mega prims, and though they are modifiable there isn't much you can modify since they are mega prims, and the sky textures are driven by a non modifiable script. Still I suspect people could make adjustments to these prims in other ways (just don't try to resize mega prims!).
This Cloud Box is slightly smaller than the standard parcel size it fits and the interior is a bit smaller than the exterior as well. I made the interior space tall to allow for buildings, but you may find they need to be closer to the center to fit if they are really large. Many of my own large castles fit nicely inside of the Cloud Boxes I use.
Statistics:
Prims: 2
Permissions:
Scripts= Copy only
MegaPrims= Copy/Modify/No Transfer
Area: 125x125 not quite a full quarter sim
Cloud Box is set to phantom, not solid, so privacy is visual only.
- Designed to fit a quarter sim, 128x128 area
- Scripted Sky dome displays slowly moving skies
- HUD allows owner,group,or public to change skies (click 3 seconds to get hud)
- 12 different seamless sky textures to display
- Only 2 megaprims
Textures Of Sky Suck
They Are NOT Realistic, more just thrown together. Does the job since its the only one on the market but the sky could have been much better. This is not worth the 580L$ i just paid though, feel ripped off.
This fit when nothing else would
My only thing was the textures were not what i hoped for. They were good enough just seemed all very similar and boring to me, and it isnt mod. But as far as I could find, there are no others like it and it will fit where other sky domes may not.
