since the post about the mechanical trees earlier this week, i have been thinking about a Utopian future colony. i tend to daydream about making a grungy post-apocalyptic city and landscape but ever since i saw some of Sarge’s Excelsior Station, the thought of a clean world has appealed to me also. however, in my new vision, there are still reminders of a dystopian past with the placement of some type of ray gun defense system – maybe this is the future for the so-called one percenters?
either way, it’s a real departure from my old daydream and a fun side project that is just for me. if this makes itself into Enclave Harbour, i’d ditch the ray gun and maybe just have it as a spot for students to dream about the future 0f the way far future, the kind like Ray Bradbury inspired us to dream about
here’s about 4 hours into this build using sim-on-a-stick; mechanical trees are on the to do list =)
Yay for the hats off to Ray Bradbury! He was a wonderful writer, and had a great heart too.
Araxie Longoar
16 Jun 12 at 12:04 pm
Looks nice! Will you make he oar available?
Till Stirling
16 Jun 12 at 12:16 pm
That’s looking pretty good, Ener :-)
Sarge Misfit
16 Jun 12 at 12:22 pm
thanks everybody and Mr Bradbury was wonderful and will remain a large influence
yes, i am excited to say that i will make this an OAR freely available!
subQuark is reluctant to make anything from Enclave Harbour available and i can respect that since it is his investment (he does pay me, but in things like software, hardware, domain registration, hosting and our own OpenSim server – it’s a family dealio)
so i’ll have it out in versions and i anticipate the first one in the next week =)
Ener Hax
16 Jun 12 at 12:43 pm
Hi hello ener, one question where I can find some info how to link sim on a stick to osgrid ?. I have seen some residents comming to my blog and try to find that information. I would like to write something but I don’t know where I can get that info!
xpontaneus
17 Jun 12 at 6:01 am
This looks fantastic. Well done again Ener, and I can already see a science/technology lesson forming for the class using this build.
Kate Booth
17 Jun 12 at 6:03 am
ok i have to know what you do for round structures.
bristle
17 Jun 12 at 2:57 pm
Bristle, thin hollow sphere with either slice or dimple at 50%, rotated to fit for roof. No hollow for floor. No way to get the dimensions from the pic, but those look to be something like 40m x 40m x 4m. Experiment :-)
Sarge Misfit
17 Jun 12 at 5:46 pm
@sarge
thanks. i will experiment with that.
bristle
18 Jun 12 at 12:44 pm
hey xpontaneus, did you try the New World Studio thing that automatically sets your router?
if you can get that going, then just save your oar and upload it onto that one
otherwise, there are instructions here that i have not tried but have worked for people in Germany
http://iliveisl.com/hypergrid-from-sim-on-a-stick-part-2/
like Sarge said bristle – i do a lot of dimpling profile cutting and making hollow
this was an easy thing to build (about 8 hours) because it’s all round and symmetrical without any textures). there was a lot of shift duplicating for it (even the city centre is just a modified condo pod – so those got used 5 times!)
oh, i wrote a post today about slice whose ideas could also be used with spheres, i do a lot of shift duping/ctrl-z
Ener Hax
21 Jun 12 at 9:53 am