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One of the advantages of Sandi’ s sim is that it helps you to avoid having to search for solutions like the above. All objects( trees, rocks, buildings, plants etc) have been placed on“ right”, natural, spots and the scales of objects are correct. The overall sim appearance is one of a very tranquil summer environment in a natural country setting with ducks and birds. A water canal splits the sim in the middle in a way which adds to the scenery.
Water reflections are amazing and the sim contains many interesting smaller natural scenes which would easily attract the interest of any photographer. When you visit the sim you get a feeling of a very“ real” environment with the wind light reflecting the“ heat wave”, which you would expect to see in a summer setting like this.
The second sim is the new Little Branch sim, which is opening its doors to the public on September 3rd, 2016. The sim will be housing the main store of Little Branch, creators of top quality original mesh trees, shrubbery and flowers. A very interesting part of the project is that the sim area outside of the main store was split into five sections, which were then allocated to a group of LB stylists to create using LB products four environments each covering one of the four seasons and a sim welcome area.
All stylists are very talented and well-known in SL, so the outcome is expected to be amazing. I had a personal contribution to the project by being the person who designed the sim layout and who coordinated the whole work so I had been able to have an insider’ s view of the sim development.
At the time of writing of this article the sim project is almost complete which allowed me to obtain two sneak-peek pictures for you which I am posting here. The first is from the welcome area designed by Jay Landar and the second is from the autumn section designed by Kalianni.
The two scenes are examples of great natural scenes which SL residents can create using the high quality landscape items and trees created by Little Branch.
176 | 2ND U MAGAZINE VOL I- SEPT 2016