Rice Field Non G&S Scripted - Ten Pack

Rice Field – Non G&S Scripted

My goal in creating this rice field was to replace or infuse the standard G&S Rice field with a field at lower land impact, and more realism.

To get this realism I used a new SL procedure for applying alpha textures, texture where parts are transparent and parts aren’t. This procedure is called alpha masking. It differs from the normal alpha rendering in that the server calculates what is solid and what isn’t, and portrays only the solid. Therefore there is no glitching, and no fuzzy textures. (See Alpha Masking vs Alpha Rending picture. Both those grain fields use the same texture.)

However, to use alpha masking, an alpha texture needs to be extremely clear, with no fuzzy borders between solid and transparent. I had to design my own textures. Normal alpha textures would not work.

Also, while rice and wheat plants look similar when harvest ready, they also differ. Rice grains are a lot larger than wheat. This puts a lot more weight on the stem. Rice plants are stockier than wheat. The leaves on a rice plant are larger.

At Tharna Woods Farm, I have combined around 60 16x16m infused Rice Fields into a huge field that cover almost a quarter Sim. Come take a look. The effect is very realistic.

While I made these for myself to be infused, these I sell are not. They are unscripted. If you want infused, contact me in-world. The infusing procedure is very simple.

For you to be able to resell once infused, I have kept the fields Modify, No Copy, and Transfer.

Each rice field comes with a ground prim unlinked. Linking of the ground prim to rice field does not decrease land impact. Linking of multiple rice fields to 1 ground prim will cause the G&S scripts to glitch.

Also, in making my mega-fields I used only ground prims sized to 64x64m, and thus used very few. Depending on how you setup your fields, you may not need all ground prims.

Due to the alpha masking, and no matter their size, each sculptured rice field has a Land Impact of 2 LI.

Ground sculptured prims each have a Land Impact of 1 LI. Resizing does not change this.

You can buy these rice Fields in 3 sized packages:
• Single Rice Field & Ground Prim
• Five Pack Rice Fields and Ground Prims
• Ten Pack Rice Fields and Ground Prims.

In-World I sell these grain fields in my main store, or at the Lar Torvis G&S market. In both locations they can be bought for Linden Dollars or G&S coins.

Q: Why aren’t these already infused if they were made to be infused?

A: I cannot control how Sombra does his updates. As of 02/08/2016 there are over 1,000 of my items having been infused. What “could happen” at an update “if I did the infusing” is I would get all the updates (as the original buyer), and not you the customer. Neither of us wants that to happen.

Sahiela Lavendel
Priory of Roses