[jhb] Re: 'Second Life'
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:07:12 +0100
You can buy objects too - anything from a hat to an aircraft. It's easier to
make them yourself if you have the skills but SL has the same problem as FS
in that high poly count slows the system down. To reduce this the number of
polys (they call them prims) is limited so, for example, you can make a
cylinder with greater than eight or twelve sides (I haven't counted).
Despite the crude rendering it is surprising how textures can mask the
roughness of shapes.
There are quite a few aircraft kicking around in SL and they range from
crude to quite accurate. The best I've seen so far is a Nieuport and DH2 -
almost up to FS98 standard.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Alex Barrett
Sent: 14 May 2007 11:07
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: 'Second Life'
Peter,
Yes it costs real money. In some cases quite a lot. I paid around £37 for 2
bits of land for 2 separate organisations. However it had made me back more
than double that in increased sales in just under 2 weeks.
In theory others shouldn't be able to demolish buildings. However.... given
Mark Silcocks....interesting business practices and the many people who had
access to his accounts, as he was the "land lord" it could have been
possible for someone accessing his account to destroy things in areas he
owns.
Funny old world eh?
Peter Dodds wrote:
Does this "land" actually cost you real money to buy/lease? How do
others demolish your buildings? I'd never heard of SL, but I'm intrigued.
Peter
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