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Written 11 December, 2006
My Volcano
III. Hanging Out at the Caldera
My first week or so my time at the volcano was heavenly. I built a platform (my first prim construction!) overlooking the lava and put a rail around three sides to stop myself and visitors from tumbling down the mountainside. I even placed a new purchase, a Wurlitzer jukebox, which allowed me to tune to any of about 100 streaming radio stations. I textured the slab to look like marble, and it looked fine indeed, stuck out a bench and a sunbathing towel.
I found a big skybox which used only 19 prims and cost only, if I remember correctly, $200L. I bought it, rezzed it on top of the crater, and, by changing the z variable in Position, stuck it high in the sky, at 700 meters.
There was a problem. I couldn’t make my avatar fly higher than 200 meters. I told my friends I needed to find a flight enhancer, and one was kind enough to give me a jetpack.
The jetpack was fast—so fast I tended to zoom past or bang into objects. Its settings could be adjusted; I could have made its top speed slower and reduced its acceleration, which would have made it more manageable, but I couldn’t be bothered. I zoomed to 700 meters, and there was my skybox, floating serenely in mid-air.
Getting inside was difficult, since the jetpack was so responsive it was hard to maneuver, but I finally managed, lining up with and flying through one of the invisible doors before it had time to close.
It would be a pretty good place to have a party, I told myself, as I made a landmark.
Being by now an old hand at building platforms, I made a 10x10m deck with a single prim, and then hollowed a second prim and cut a quarter of it away, making a railing. With some fiddling, I was able to position the deck so it abutted one of the doors and lowered the railing into position. I looked through my tiny library of textures and found a nice wood texture. Now I had a landing platform.
Next, I helped my friend Chrissy Broadway place her skybox 50 meters below mine. I had told her she could live on the property rent-free. More on Chrissy later.
I was happy as a clam.
My Volcano
III. Hanging Out at the Caldera
My first week or so my time at the volcano was heavenly. I built a platform (my first prim construction!) overlooking the lava and put a rail around three sides to stop myself and visitors from tumbling down the mountainside. I even placed a new purchase, a Wurlitzer jukebox, which allowed me to tune to any of about 100 streaming radio stations. I textured the slab to look like marble, and it looked fine indeed, stuck out a bench and a sunbathing towel.
I found a big skybox which used only 19 prims and cost only, if I remember correctly, $200L. I bought it, rezzed it on top of the crater, and, by changing the z variable in Position, stuck it high in the sky, at 700 meters.
There was a problem. I couldn’t make my avatar fly higher than 200 meters. I told my friends I needed to find a flight enhancer, and one was kind enough to give me a jetpack.
The jetpack was fast—so fast I tended to zoom past or bang into objects. Its settings could be adjusted; I could have made its top speed slower and reduced its acceleration, which would have made it more manageable, but I couldn’t be bothered. I zoomed to 700 meters, and there was my skybox, floating serenely in mid-air.
Getting inside was difficult, since the jetpack was so responsive it was hard to maneuver, but I finally managed, lining up with and flying through one of the invisible doors before it had time to close.
It would be a pretty good place to have a party, I told myself, as I made a landmark.
Being by now an old hand at building platforms, I made a 10x10m deck with a single prim, and then hollowed a second prim and cut a quarter of it away, making a railing. With some fiddling, I was able to position the deck so it abutted one of the doors and lowered the railing into position. I looked through my tiny library of textures and found a nice wood texture. Now I had a landing platform.
Next, I helped my friend Chrissy Broadway place her skybox 50 meters below mine. I had told her she could live on the property rent-free. More on Chrissy later.
I was happy as a clam.
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Photo 1: Chey on her platform, with particle lights in caldera. Photo by Melissa Yeuxdoux
Photo 2: The clover shape was a big selling point for Chrissy
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