The Library Blimp is Coming!

Yes, hot on the heels of creating entirely too much trouble with my sleighs in Eyre, the Caledon Librarian asked me to create a suitable "Book Blimp" to ferry the literate and careless of their lives to and from the various branches. It's a bit faster than the usual inter-library loan, albeit a tad more draughty.

Once I work out a suitable path through the various full parcels of the region, service will be starting at the Victoria City Branch and landing at Mayfair. More routes to follow, time and foolishness permitting.

Happy Holidays!

And Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All! And perhaps too much candy, besides :)

Touring Sleigh is Here!!!

HOLIDAY SPECIAL!! I'm selling the sleigh tour system for only 1500L until mid-January. Similar systems run over twice as much, or even more. I truthfully believe it is the best horse drawn touring system on the market right now, but I want people to get a chance to use it and show it off to friends and visitors. Besides, it's Christmas!





I know, I know. You can just go to Eyre and ride it around for free. But for those of you who Brave the Wilds of Other Sims, you might think about taking advantage of my Christmas Sale to have a sleigh tour of your very own! The sleighs can be set to become temp rez when a passenger sits on them, so you only need to have a free prim on your own parcel.

In World at the Carriage House:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20E ... 20/183/23/

Or online at:
http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?na ... ID=1074883


This beautiful sleigh and horse will take visitors for a guided tour that you create. Smooth motion and amazingly realistic animation combine to create an true winter wonderland experience. The Cheval Verite touring script is easy to use, but permits customization such as automatic announcements, delays, stops and rotations to face scenic outlooks. Create a permanent touring vehicle, or use the temp vehicle which turns to a temp-rez object (does not count against parcel prims) when passengers sit on it.

Come see it in action at the Cheval Verite Carriage House in Caledon Eyre:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20E ... 20/183/23/


Sleigh Features include:

--Sculpted prim animation. No "missing legs" or stiff prim rotations.
--Horses wiggle their ears, occasionally stamp their feet when paused and make horsie noises.
--Cheerful Jingle Bell sound.
--Copy/Mod, so you can create as many vehicles as you like, and add custom features such as your own poseballs or decorations.
--Prim limited? No worries! Simply set the sleigh to temp rez and put it in the rezzer. Visitors then can touch the rezzer to get a vehicle to ride. This means you only need one prim available.
--Or leave the sleigh out. When someone sits on it, it becomes temp rez (ZERO parcel prims) heads off, and the rezzer automatically rezzes another sleigh in its place.
--OR use the permanent sleigh, and just have it loop about on a tour.
--Sleigh can be set to sit still at any designated waypoint until a passenger sits on it
--Sleigh can be set to self destruct at the end of the tour (no sleighs need clutter up your sim!)

About the Cheval Verite Touring System--
--Smooth motion, with no pauses at waypoints (unless programmed in)
--Uses Global Coordinates, which makes for smooth and easy sim crossings.
--Coordinates are entered on the notecard in easy to understand Local format.
--Drop down menu accesses the position detector, which allows for precision coordinates with no guess work.
--Preloaded Notecard system combines the low lag feature of notecardless systems with the easy of use and customizability you get from storing the route on a notecard. Want another vehicle to follow the same route? Simply copy and drop the notecard into it!
--Automatically points in direction of travel (but can be set to rotate to a specific direction at a waypoint if you like)
--Automatically tilts up and down when climbing or descending.
--At each waypoint, can be preprogrammed to wait for a specified period of time, wait until someone gets on, rotate to face a specific direction, say anything you like in chat, or self destruct at the end of the tour (quietly!).

If you have any questions at all, please send me a notecard/IM and I'll be happy to answer you!

-Miss Virrginia Tombola
Owner, Cheval Verite/La Bicyclette

Real Victorian Horsie Walking

More fun with GIF animations :) This is from the 1887 work by Muybridge, the very first (and still a very important) stop motion study of animals in motion. I've used it extensively in my own horse animations, and now through the magic of freebie software bundled with Photoshop, I strung his photographs of a horse walking together into what I modestly consider almost a passable animation.

Grrrr...GIF

Edit: Thanks, Dia! Of course now it seems perfectly obvious. Blogger does not support animation. So, the way to do the animation is to host it on another site (I use Photobucket) and enter a direct link there.



La! One silly animated Seahorse :))

Sleigh Rides

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Well, as those of you who experienced the Great Sleigh Infestation in Caledon Eyre might know, the last few days have had me busy as the Dickens (/rimshot) making sleighs for the Holidays. I do apologize to those whose houses were overrun on Friday with the replicating Touring Sleighs!

I've made two types of sleighs. The first is the Victorian, two horse sleigh which uses the same vehicle engine that I made for the Royal Carriages. Most of the animations remain the same, but thanks to Jaeger M. Szondi, it also makes snow :) And instead of a wheel sound, it has the obligatory jingle bells.



The other sleigh is not quite ready for sale yet (mostly, I need to make it more user friendly). It's a Touring Sleigh, which automatically will wend its way about a prearranged course. It can be set to be either permanent or temp-rez, the latter meaning it doesn't take require more prim space than the one prim rezzer! Still, I kept the prims fairly low by using sculpted animation for the horse's legs.



I actually extremely proud of this one, so if you wish to assuage my vanity, please drop by the Carriage House and touch the picture of the sleigh. It will rez a sleigh which will then take you on a guided tour of Eyre and Regency. I hope to expand that and have it range its way from Kittiwick to Penzance with time (I'm trying to provide service in the trainless sections of Caledon). When the snows melt, I plan to turn it back to Hansom cabs.

In the warmth
Twining about my limbs and soul
The lazy winter wind
Nestles snugly in the core
of
nothing