i finally wrapped up a new house i’d been working on, after a slight texture disaster. all i’m going to say is if you’re zoomed in changing texture repeats, make sure you know what’s selected before applying the change!
it’s a rustic home, 30m x 30m, with 60 prims. i’m using some new textures in this, including some wood slat and bricks. and it has a color change script, which brightens up the trim and front door.
i’m about to set out new teleporters for getting around to the different rezzers at the park life / ace’s spaces store.
we have six rezzer platforms currently. two more are planned for a total of eight, but first i’m going to replace the current colored-column teleporters with a new system.
the new design will be an array of buttons with numbers on the faces, and a message above the prims showing how many people are browsing at that location. this will let you know which ones are empty, or the least populated, saving you some time from not having to hop around to all of them. and you still just simply click once on the teleporter to zip yourself off to another platform. we do have scanners at each platform now, but we are not collecting your name or invading privacy. they’re simply adding up numbers of everyone hanging out there.
we will be doing what we can to balance out the lines for the rezzers, and make it as easy as possible to get to look at houses, with minimal interruption. we know it can get hectic, and people can be inconsiderate sometimes. please send us your feedback on the shopping experience, the new teleporters, or anything else on your mind.
if you tried to buy anything from park life on slexchange.com recently, it probably failed to deliver. i had to gut my magic box and put new scripts in for it to work, but it’s fixed now!
the monotime clocks are pretty minimalist designs, but i didn’t skimp on the texture detail:
also, the rayonnante clocks, in four colors:
all of these are on sale now in the interiors store, for $65 each!
ace and i each sell our houses under our own brand names, but we do so alongside each other, and often work together trading ideas. so we have this “umbrella” brand which covers us both: five points.
this is a reference to le corbusier’s les 5 points d’ une architecture nouvelle, or 5 points of new architecture. these points were a system of features which were his vision of architecture for the future: the foundation lifted off the ground, floating walls in a flexible, open space, a floating facade, a long, horizontal front window, and a rooftop garden.
while i’m influenced by his work and like to incorporate these concepts into my own, i don’t adhere to them as rules, nor find that they can always apply to my current project.
reading a 37signals blog post about focusing on the permanent features got me thinking about my own features central to my business. and there just happen to be five of them 
so here are park life’s five points:
please come out to support relay for life
the home, garden and patio starts this saturday, may 3. i will have a spot in the north of the map, and will have some custom items you won’t find for sale anywhere else, including a new house and a clock design. come check out two sims worth of builders, donate some lindens and get some great stuff
location: rhodium 100, 180
this is a 1024m sized house made of stone and wood, for L$750. available now, get more details here
sorry it’s been so long since my last post. i’m going to post all my new houses here, including one i did recently, and i plan on posting more often.i finished up a 1024m sized house called danic, which is anchored around a big brick column with a little skylight at the top.
right now i’m playing with some wood and stone textured house ideas for something warmer. i don’t feel inspired quite yet but i hope to have something done soon!
i’m currently working on a three-story house, similar in style to the cabri, that includes several decks and a pool. i like how this one is working out it has a central tall glass entrance area, and sprouts horizontal planes like wings, with lots of windows.it should be done by the end of the month so keep an eye out for it.
quite some time ago, i sketched out a house design. i was pleased with it, and immediately started to create my vision in prims. getting the initial look was easy, but i soon ran into problems. the exterior looked great. but as soon as i started the interior i hit problems with the split level concept. the floors were either too tall, or too short. and the split level didn’t meet up well with the other two levels between which it sat.so i wrestled with it. i added prims to cover odd gaps, i ripped out whole sections and rebuilt them. until i ended up with a prim-heavy monstrosity. and it still had odd gaps. disappointed, i scrapped it and moved on to something else.
recently, on a whim, i decided to tackle it again. starting from scratch i build the second version. it has a similar look, but technically it isn’t a split level, so it worked much better. prims lined up. the door placement made sense. it had rooms that didn’t seem like they were forced into awkward spaces.
it’s been a while since my last update, but my new house is almost done. it will be 40×33 meters, meant to fit on 4096 square meters of land.also in the works, a smaller 1024-size home, and a larger store.
