Mow-able Grass?

[KITILA Cortes]

SO I love to create things advancing the secondlife universe. Don't ask why the idea i been playing with, takes a weekly summer chore and turns it into a virtual possibility. It turns out to be quite fun. I also already found many ways to make it quite interactive, because that's the stuff that makes SL enjoyable. So I was just curious what others would say about mow-able grass.

[Jesica Dragovar]

sounds interesting, that plus plantpets watering, you can have a whole yard and garden routine

[KITILA Cortes]

Well right now, it  has a few maintaince needs.

[Claireschen Hesten]

if you wanted to you could make it like those breedable horses and meeroos such as sell grass seed and water or the grass will vanish and turn to dirt it could be quite a money maker if you wanted to go down that route

[Marcus Hancroft]

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KITILA Cortes wrote:

SO I love to create things advancing the secondlife universe. Don't ask why the idea i been playing with, takes a weekly summer chore and turns it into a virtual possibility. It turns out to be quite fun. I also already found many ways to make it quite interactive, because that's the stuff that makes SL enjoyable. So I was just curious what others would say about mow-able grass.

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Interesting idea.  I'm envisioning sales of different styles of lawn mowers, waterers, seeders, different kinds of grass, weed killer chemicals.  Is this even possible though?  Is there a way to script this so the grass actually "grows?"  I suppose there is since the breedables grow up into adults.  I'm intrigued.  The grass would have to look good though so the textures would have to be well done. 

[Lynda Baran]

Then you could even make a  "Kid down the blocK" bot who would mow it for L$20.    hehehe

[Jo Yardley]

I love the idea.

Perfect for roleplay sims, it actually COULD be a job someone else does for you for a few lindens

Harnass the power of the noob!

[161488303349]

And signs.

"!!! GET OFF MY LAWN !!!"

:womantongue:

 

[Jesica Dragovar]

I can see the golf course sims picking this up too, would open up hiring a greenskeeper position

 

that said I'd love to see a demo of this, do you have a SLURL?

[Knutz Scorpio]

/me starts work on a Hank Hill avatar.

[Ishtara Rothschild]

That would be quite easy to script. There are large patches of grass made with a single sculpt prim, which could easily be scaled along the Z axis and moved upwards. The lawnmower object would then whisper a series of messages to the grass item and cause it to gradually shrink back to its original size. You could even add a bunch of pesky particle insects that start to flutter around when the grass grows too high.

[UncommonTruth]

If I ever become not homeless, I'll think about it.

[KITILA Cortes]

It already been created, lol. but in a much performance friendly fashion then what you decribe. Not that is it's a bad design, just better ways are out there now. I look forward to posting more information. I am currently tinkering with it to make it more interactive.

[Drongle McMahon]

" ...water or the grass will vanish and turn to dirt"

If it's anything like my RL grass, it will turn into moss and stinging nettles whatever you do with it. :matte-motes-crying:

[Sy Beck]

I remember Agent Smith telling Neo in The Matrix how firstly they created a perfect virtual world for humans to exist in, but humans sub-conciously rejected it because we needed the pain, misery and humdrum of life.

Damn you and damn your mowable lawn!  :smileywink:

/me returns to washing his virtual dishes seeing as the virtual dishwasher has stopped working.

[Melita Magic]

Couldn't you just do a texture or prim changing script? Or is that what you said? heh

The lawnmower could spew out particles of grass as it moved.

 

I think it's a cute idea, OP.

[Canoro Philipp]

yeah, having the same prim and changing the texture it would be easier, just having a grass texture of the max long it will grow, and moving it up on the prim calculating from the last time it was mowed its a great idea!

this idea has a lot of potential.

from having it become dirt, to have particles crickets and sounds, butterflies, to sell the lawnmower, sprinklers, accesories that goes with it.

go for it while its early, you got a lot to gain from this idea.

[KITILA Cortes]

No, changing the texture risk turning the prim ruth, or gray colored. It is much better to do it other more out of the box thinking.

 

 

Just keep my name in mind, I'll post soon to pass it out and let you guys play with it. and help advance it

 

[Canoro Philipp]

awesome! we will beta test it.

[Perrie Juran]

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Jo Yardley wrote:

I love the idea.

Perfect for roleplay sims, it actually COULD be a job someone else does for you for a few lindens

Harnass the power of the noob!

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I seem to remember that back in the days of camping that a mopping or scrubing the floor animation was very popular.

There were also some places that had some "R" rated positions available too.

[Melita Magic]

You could change the prim instead, but I guess sculpt map is also a texture.  Or you could warp it or rotate it maybe.

 

 

[KITILA Cortes]

Alright, for everyone who has been following this topic. I got a beta version ready. I will post a new thread for information to to go to be ableto get your own.

[Jesica Dragovar]

looking forward to it, if anything out of sheer curiosity

 

 

between your mowable grass, Plantpets, and MG Magic Crops Vegetable Garden    my Second Life is gonna be filled with the yard work I avoid in RL

[Maryanne Solo]

just make sure its ready for Hippiestock :smileywink: