There.com Landowners Get Weather Controls
Landowners in the virtual world of There.com got new control over the weather at their plots yesterday, according to the company. As of yesterday, “all members owning zones, neighborhoods or property lots will have new options for customizing the environment and weather for their locations in the virtual world. Owners will see two new pull-down menus — environment and weather. The environment menu provides for different looks for the sky, including new dawn, high noon, romantic sunset and moonlit night. The weather menu provides for rain, snow and thunderstorm settings. Both menus have the ability to restore the default settings for each particular location.” This is pretty cool, if you ask me. I’d love to see the thunderstorm setting going off right next door to someone’s romantic sunset. And if none of the There.com member-developers have crafted a rain-cloud attachment that hovers over your head as you move around, they should get on that as well. If nothing else, this is going to pump up the market for virtual umbrellas.
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Oh, now we can understand why the Lindens became obsessed with adding weather these last few months. Word must have leaked to them out of the There.com dev camp that weather was coming. In preparation for weather, which nobody in SL wanted or needed from the Lindens, they have completely borked the sun. The sun now looks like a huge, watery poached egg that really hurts the eyes.
Why do I say nobody wanted or needed? Because residents already made clouds and rain themselves. Those people who really have a hankering for them can add them with these scripted devices. Most people prefer their utopian simulated world to be sunny all the time, however.
Hey Mark, neat stuff, I may have to go visit There again some time. The different skies is nothing too new, as old player hacks to the client allowed that before, but actual weather is new.
Supposedly There will once again have real water at some point, so long to high speed buggy racing? Hehe.
There does not have anything like attachments or LSL though, nor can they rez an object just anywhere (Except vehicles). So a follower rain cloud is not really possible, unless it was part of a vehicle itself. Which would be problematic because they don’t move like vehicles do in SL, no they are more realistic in There, though cartoonish. That, and well… vehicles are banned by the server code in the hot spots.
I want to smile as I see my neighbors run inside during a rainstorm with their groceries; meanwhile, all is sunny at my place.
Seriously, letting people control the weather is as good as it gets!
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