Coby Foden

Yes, I keep the mini map almost always on. It's great when exploring places, sailing, driving a vehicle, flying helicopter, etc. I especially like the mini map in Firestorm viewer because it has some extra very useful features which LL's viewer does not have. For example parcel borders, which help you to navigate and stay out of private non Linden lands.

My general impression was that most things what I saw in the Galaxy ship are still the original old historical ones. However I saw that some things are newer ones. For example the benches in the steam sauna are mesh. I have the same sauna benches in shorter version in my sauna on my parcel.

The sun just rose above the sea horizon.

Exploring SS Galaxy inside: Spa & Fitness center. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Galaxy FORWARD/120/165/25 Some things still have the old pose balls, but some things have already more modern animation/pose system; such as AVsitter, for example. (The Spa & Fitness center was clothing optional in the ship's original place. Due to the forum rules the avatar shown in the pictures wore a skirt.) 😉 General view Hot tub and massage Steam sauna And some fitness activities (Oh, the avatar does not belong to the scene, you need to bring your own.) 😁 😉

During the short period, about one week, when I had Victorian house (The Verne) I noticed that the colours what I defined were always saved as Custom 0. And the colours were naturally totally mixed up when trying to re-apply them on some other wall. My alt was the owner of the parcel, but I (Coby) was the one always using the house. So I don't know how the custom colours would have worked with my alt doing the custom colours defining. Maybe there is something broken sometimes when a non-parcel owner does the colour defining?

Oh no! It's perfect where it is now.

Enjoying late afternoon at home in Bellisseria. 🙂

In region Galaxy MID there is a dance floor near the swimming pool, there is music too and a clickable sphere in the air loaded with working dances. Yay! 😀 Region Galaxy AFT also has dance floor, music and working single and couple dances. PARTYY...!

Yes, the huge three regions long Galaxy ship has been moved to new location. I went to look near the old location and the ship is not there anymore. Even the three regions of the old location are off now (the world map still showed the ship in the old location, but withing few days the world map will update too to show the actual fact). This region http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scuttle/219/60/22 is the next region to the west from the old Galaxy AFT region. Galaxy ship in its new location can be seen from here (look towards west): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hibiki/88/136/24 (at the time of writing the world map was not yet updated fully).

That rotating and flickering 😵 light appears to be within the borders of the owner's parcel. Ok so far. But it can be seen from far away and is most likely highly annoying for anybody having parcel nearby. It's not particles, it's an actual object, so turning particles off in the viewer does not hide it. It can be de-rendered in some third party viewers. Linden Lab viewer does not have that option, so the users of that viewer cannot hide that distraction from their view. 🤷‍♀️ Is it violating the covenant or not I wonder?

Avatars cannot swim without some aid. 😁 You need to wear a swim HUD. For example here's a free one: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AT-Swimmer/5646038

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Well... I surely have - my eyes tell me that it's not quite within the theme. My houseboat is between those two green houseboats. When I came to that place then only few houseboats had been taken. It was very nice looking place to be; not so much anymore.

It looks like as if there is a competition going on who can build the highest (and ugliest) add-on on top of houseboat. 🙄 The one in the front is much higher than 15 meters. The one at the background is higher than 15 meters too. Somebody is trying to grow grass, trees, plants and flowers on wood deck - without proper planters and/or pots. It just looks so sad. 🙁 😛 And in some places there are full bright items such as: plants, curtains and even house add-ons! Aarghh.. 😕 Perhaps people having full bright objects are using fixed midday Windlight so they are not even aware of the problem how full bright looks at night?

The location for my house, where the creek is, is here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/North Waddling/182/249/23 Anybody interested is welcome to have a look. There is no security orb in the parcel. I used the water from this package for the creek's end ponds: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Skye-Water-System-Natural-Water-Materials-Enabled/7483345 And this package has all the necessary items to make the creek with flowing water: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Skye-Animated-River-Building-Set-Pack-1-Flowing-Water/17458212

Now I have done it. Done what? I added creek, with animated flowing water, winding around two sides of the house. (Hmm.. my neighbour's parcel - on the upper left corner - has been fenced from all four sides. They didn't leave open even the side facing the nice sea. Well the fence is quite low and well made so it's ok, not a disturbance for me in any way.) Water, water, water... all around! 😀 It's relaxing to sit by the creek and listen to the sound of the flowing water and the chirping of the birds. Perfect. 🙂

Yes. There will be 16 Victorian houses in SSPE1041 region. When I was there I saw houses appearing one by one in rapid succession. Many more regions still waiting for the houses.

Sitting on the balcony add-on of my Winchester house I increased my view distance to whopping 1024 meters. Gradually things in the distance started to appear. And my fps started to drop to single digits - total slideshow with around 3 fps only. Anyway I was able to take the snapshot. The lighthouse in the distance is 656 meters away (about two and half regions away).

The complete thing I assembled from variuos items: 1. The water (very realistic, animated) is from here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Skye-Water-System-Natural-Water-Materials-Enabled/7483345 It's a bit expensive but the pack has many sizes for the water, so you can build lots of different sized ponds with this water pack. 2. For the sides of the water I just made a rectangular prim with a big hole in it. No need for bottom because the water will have texture in it for the bottom feature. So that will hide the land texture under it. 3. The rocky item (left from the fire) with small water feature is called "[DDD] Nanshe's Spring", creator: Anke Hatchuk. Main store: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dysfunctionality/55/1/26 and Marketplace: http://mp.dysfunctional.space 4. The fountain is (hidden under the rocks, only the water sprouting up is shown): "fishy fountain (1 prim)", creator: Aley

The house in X indeed has gone poof! Certain Mole magic was performed there. 😀 😉

I added bigger shallow pond on the backyard of my Winchester home. There's water all over the place, the inland big lake on the west side of the house, the long channel leading to the north in the front, the big swimming pool on the west side, and then the pond at the back. There is still room to add a creek on the east side - maybe someday. 😃

Yes, I just wait and see how it develops. They have started texturing it now, and it looks better already. Edited to add: I measured, the structure's highest point is 16.9 meters above the water surface.

Today a new neighbor has started to build something BIG over their houseboat. Why? 😩 ☹️