The ARCHITECTURE of SECOND LIFE "The devil is in the details..." by "Merlyn Bailly" copyright April 2006

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Thursday, 4 May 2006 NEW PREFAB at MAXIMUM MINIMUM: NEWS AT 11! As someone with minimal pretensions as a builder, I check out new prefabs I see posted in the forums to see what more experienced builders have done. One well-known SL builder is Maximilian Milosz of MAXIMUM MINIMUM, who posted his new prefab to the NEW PRODUCTS forums. Some of his builds are serious prim hogs, and should only be considered for very large lots; this one is 118 prims (half the prim allocation for a 1024sm lot), and the footprint is exactly 16mX32m (an entire 512sm lot).

The overall design is pretty good -- I do have a couple of caveats: -- I'm not sure why he put a grass texture on the roof -- a decking or roofing texture would make more sense. -- I'm also not sure which end is the front and which is the back -- the sliding glass door to the visible deck/patio would indicate that the screenshot is a back view, and there's no indication what the putative front looks like. If I were the designer, and wanted people to come and buy it at my site, I'd include another screenshot in the forum post so that people would know if it was worth their time to go there (unless he just wants to pique the forum readers' interest enough to get them to TP there and get whatever "points" the Lindens are still awarding for traffic/dwell). -- He seems to have plunked the entire thing down on a single wood-textured prim, which means that the interior floor texture continues out to the deck/patio area (and on the 2nd floor, the flooring texture continues to the balcony). If he's going to be using over 100 prims for the build anyway, putting an appropriately-sized 1-prim patio/balcony prim on top of the each of the main flooring prims wouldn't be too much work, would add only 2 prims to the build's total prim count, and would make the build look just a bit more realistic.

I don't know about you, but if I had a house the size of an entire FIRST LAND lot, I'd be doing some serious decorating, and with the house itself taking up half the prim allocation for a 1024sm lot, that doesn't leave many prims for decorating. My prefab Damani villa was very nicely decorated, but I had a prim allocation of 500 prims at the time (used just under 400, btw, in a prefab that can fit on a 512sm lot, with a little room to spare, so my Damani prefab is comparably sized to Max's new build). He advises that a buyer put this build on a 1024sm lot, but unless you are decorating in clunky, tacky, low-prim newbie freebies, less than 125 prims really isn't enough to decorate a house this size. If you're gonna buy it, I hope you have more land than that in the sim you're planning on building it, just for decorating prims.

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