Sunday, April 6, 2008

Recent Releases : Treehouse Beds

A couple of recent releases to match the Stained Glass Treehouse.

The Living Room set is, as always, low prim and features complimentary textures to accent the interior of the treehouse. Of course, these would also work well in a castle or medieval dwelling. I've tried to reuse some of the Stained Glass interior textures on the furniture as I think they're extremely pretty and reminiscent of the Art Nouveau period of which I'm so fond.

There's another Living Room set to come after this one, with long awaited 3-seater and 2-seater sofas. I've been working on building the poses into these, so that there are no poseballs in mid-air, and of course it saves on prims.


And of course once I'd finished the living room, my thoughts strayed to the bedroom. I'd not attempted a bed before, apart from an awful gorean experiment which ended up entirely too 'fuchsia velvet'.

After tinkering for a while with the style and textures I wanted, I ended up with a circular bed. The beta version of this bed had a looped top with hanging vines, but due to the low roof of the treehouse I found that when people stepped off the poseballs, they ended up launched into the loop and were unable to get out! As a female, I'm naturally shorter and didn't encounter this problem but once I'd seen my partner get stuck there a couple of times, I felt that wasn't something you want to end a nice cuddle session with :) The finished version has two wooden uprights topped with sculpties.

I started off creating a bed which was going to have a couple of nice cuddle poses and a sleep pose in it, but along the way I managed to integrate a Multipose script so now there are two versions of the bed. The scripted one has enough animations to keep most people happy, but not so many you get lost trying to find the one you want - and is VERY decently priced.

Now I'm working on matching this bed to some of my other ranges - including a Gothic and an Elven version. If you have something you'd like to see at this point, please let me know !

~Alecto

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