SteveR Whiplash, a GRACIOUS THANKYOU for bringing BRIX to SL. What are BRIX? Well, what does the name sound like? Four-letter word, treasured childhood companion (albeit inanimate). Here… enlarge picture. The BRIX come in over 50 varieties. They automatically snap into place when tads are detected, taking the guesswork out of gridwork. You can even rez a baseplate as foundation, and build upwards from there.

The BRIX are fun! At times, building in SL is referred to as the "Metaverse Construction Kit". It's fitting this builds (tee hee) on the warm experiences of interlocking shapes together, and yet provides us with a greater degree of control, limited at times by people's imaginations and the technical constraints themselves. But continuing!

I suggested to SteveR?and these are premature ideas?that future versions could include more colors past the classic ones, since currently you have to click-and-hold on a brick for it to cycle, and that the BRIX be made directly moddable to edit properties. It would be nice to have transparent frosty ones. Also, wouldn't it be sheerly awesome to see a public BRIX command center in the middle of a sandbox, maybe several of them, and curious Residents stopping by to play with them? Like a real sandbox? GO ISOMETRIC!

On that note, I enjoy when budding inventors drop their creation in sandboxes so they can be interacted with. Sort of like a caveman coming upon spaceage tech and then going, "Arhhhg, what's THIS?" and pushing buttons, deducing logic. Magic ensues. Wish there was more of this, so that in addition to SL being a great arts & crafts fair, it's also a science fair!

Speaking of sandboxes, the new combat ones are finally in place, bleeding around the edges. They have really long names like Sandbox (combat) - Blue Team's HQ too. Adam Zaius and team set up a command fort, and we're ready to defend our Second Lives. Kind of like Mad Max in a way… it's great to see this day. Rickard Roentgen also came up with a tractor beam, and he used it to do some handy "nuke wrestling", which lends itself to impressive visual results as you can see. Similar to around last year, when it took Island Sandbox almost a year to show up after being requested, there's a new, non-damage-enabled, "Sandbox - Weapons Testing (no damage)", which is currently proving a pain to hyperlink. :/