Orbitus Teranium - Estate Terrain Textures

Posted on: March 12, 2006

As always, I bring you what's on my mind and in my heart. I islandhop a lot. If you own your own private island in Second Life, CONGRATULATIONS! But what I gotta say is: one of the unique benefits of doing so is being able to change the terrain textures on your estate. Have you done so? And if not, why not?

It all starts with a trip up to WORLD menu —> REGION/ESTATE —> TEXTURE tab.

Sure, default Linden grass and rocks works nice for the mainland, but you are not that! Is there something that'd better suit your artistic vision and your creative expressivity to rule the roost of your domain? THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND PLZ.

Now take a deep breath.

And relax.

I see so many islands using the "stock" textures. Does a great guitarist personalize her instrument, selecting the best strings as fingerweights, perhaps attaching stickers, carving a heart in the back, other custom touches? YES! And you, too, can leave your own mark on your island! Some beaches would be better served with the wave wet white sand they're calling out for—honestly.

'N' so… I'm going to bring it up, some of the finestkine I've seen!

268 x 268 pixels… The Office! So easy to spot on the map. When most is green, it is pink! Lots of fun things going on there, and I can't say I object to the color scheme used by their builders. ;) It reminds me of Oneironaut Escher's place in Kaminari, really a fertile breeding ground for ideas.

Curious Kitties! Something that may strike you and appear to be familiar if you enter this island of Ameshin Yossarian's, is "What is that texture? It looks so damn familiar!" Infact, it's one of the default Atoll roof ones, "atoll_shackRoof_metal_2"—twisted around in a way which only a terrain mesh can organically bend, unlike prims (which are hard to organically distort). Context meets consequence!

Enter the doublebind. I thot that by the name, British Isles, this would be a rather formal region not unlike a certain video game which also has an avatar. I went, and saw, and it turned out to be full of highly-saturated goodness, a tip of the hat to more interactive entertain: Super Mario Bros.! But that's not all. Colorful castles and more abound, a nice trip. Again, not the most elaborate, but a superb example of unique estate terrain textures.

And that brings us to…


Wait, we might as well go out with a bang! AUTOCONTRAST!!!

Das Rheingold! RUR RUR RUR!

And let's look at some inworld shots for the final curtain call:

So really, if you have your own island, you owe it to yourself to take advantage of what we offer!

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