Landscapes Unlimited creates 3D panoramic landscapes in virtual 3D worlds. One type of landscape immerses skyboxes into an overwhelming environment. Another type makes island sims part of a spectacular mountain range, a desert or a tropical archipelago. This blog is about the landscapes we create. Visit us in Second Life.
The Lonely Mountain is special in a sense that it puts you on top of a mountain instead of in a valley. It is surrounded by animated reflective water (enable Advanced Lighting model!) that you can look and dream about, but not go to. Go to the borders of the sim and look down to enjoy the spectacular views. I'm sure many of you will be inspired by it: this is not a common sight in Second Life, where most places are surrounded by mountains instead of on top of them. The mesh on-sim surface makes it easy to build your own mountain keep.
Lonely Mountain: a mountainous island floating in the sky
Kingdom of Islands solid sky landscape
The Kingdom of Islands is a collection of tropical islands and beaches. The solid on-sim part has beaches and a few higher areas. It's ideal to make your own tropical private place in the sky, high above your other activities at ground level.
Crossing Ridges solid sky landscape
Crossing Ridges is a mountainous landscape, with four valleys that meet each other in the middle, where you get to build your place. Your sunsets and sunrises will be spectacular!
Sandy Shore solid sky landscape
There is one landscape that cannot be visited yet. It's the Sandy Shores landscape. It has green hills with some big, sheltered lakes that you can walk into.
Installing the Solid Sky landscapes may be a bit tricky. To help you with it I've made an instruction video.
You can get demos of all of them in my store. They are not available on the Marketplace yet, but they will be by the end of August. As an introductory offer these new landscapes will be discounted by 20% until July 19, 2015.
Today I'm releasing a new mirror box with 50 new non-Winter scenes. This mirror box is available in a cubic end a rectangular shape. For creating the scenes (all done inside Second Life, using my own creations) I've mostly used my latest Mega sim surrounds as a backdrop: Alpine Ridge, Mount Fuji, Cuesta Galore and Tarn Valley. There are Spring, Summer and Autumn scenes. Most are daytime and sunset scenes, and some are nighttime scenes. Just go through them to see what you like. These new Summer boxes make use of Experience tools to automatically let you and your friends enjoy environment settings that match the current scene. You should switch this feature on in the Options menu of the mirror box, allow the "Mirror and Backdrop Box Environment Settings" on your land/region and you should enable the Use Shared Environment option in your viewer. When you click through all scenes your settings will change accordingly. On top of this feature, you will also find the match...
The holiday season is coming to Second Life! This new Winter mirror box will make a pretty backdrop for your Winter season build. It's easy to set up, and it comes with a few new features that will make your experience so much better. It contains 23 different scenes, ranging from day to night and from bright to cloudy. After putting it in place it should be easy to find a scene that best matches your wishes. Its ice floor can be changed from clear to fully snow covered. Because of the mirror box effect, the ice looks like it perfectly reflects all the light of its surroundings. The mirror box comes with snow covered mesh islands. When you drop them inside your box they will move to the ice level, and then you can move them to the right spot. In your folder you will also find a snow add-on. Drop this one inside your box (it moves into place by itself) and you will see snow gently falling close to the walls of the box. The snow add-on can be customized to your wishes: let is now lig...
A few weeks ago we introduced the Winter edition of the mirror box. All mirror boxes have been square upto now. Over the last few years, however, many people asked for rectangular ones because they would better match the long shape of their land. We're now releasing a rectangular edition or the Winter mirror box. They available sizes are 16 x 32 m (Plus member parcel size, 512 m), 24 x 48 m, 32 x64 m (1/32 region), 64 x 128 m (1/8 region) and 125 x 250 m (close to 1/2 region). Here you can read about the functionality and options the Winter mirror box has to offer. Please visit this demo place at Landscapes Unlimited to have a look and get your own copy or take a free demo.
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