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There's a moon over the off-sim mountains tonight

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With this moon and planet system you can add as many moons or planets to your place as you want. They are perfect as a backdrop for a romantic spot or to increase the immersion on sci-fi or fantasy builds. They are ideal for photo shoots, and can be used both at land level and on sky builds. You can get a demo here on the Marketplace or get a real one here . They will be discounted by 20% until Monday November 2. The "3D moon" responds to windlight lighting as if it were 3 3D shape The planets will be very far outside your sim boundaries, and are always behind any off-sim landscape that you may be using, like they would in reality. I'm pretty sure this is the only moon and planet system in Second Life that is able to place a moon or planet that far away! The planet system uses materials. This means normal and specular maps will make them look like actual spheres instead of flat discs. The lighting of the planets will change with the position of your sun and moo

Four new Solid Sky Landscapes

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Four new Solid Sky Landscapes (see this blog post to learn more about this type of landscape and for an instruction video) are available in my store . Together with the previous six ones they are also available in a considerably discounted fatpack. You might use them to create additional levels in the air, perhaps even to rent out to others to earn back part of your tiers! Solid Sky Landscapes are primarily meant for people who have a complete island region (full sim or homestead) at their disposal. The part that is within the region boundaries is solid mesh, so you can build and walk on it. The off-sim, surrounding part is made of matching sculpted mega prims. They are meant for use in the sky. Make sure to enable Advanced Lighting Model in your Graphics settings, especially animated water on all landscapes and sand ripples on the Sahara Oasis landscape will look a lot better that way. This one is inspired by the Lijiang River near Guilin, in China. It's an incredible beau