Finally! A new Release!

Quiet and unassuming, the humble country fence would never have crossed my mind as something to create for Straylight or release for Botanical.  Landscaping is Landscaping however, and even the things you don’t suspect can make a big impact in your landscaping designs.  With that in mind, I humbly present to you the Botanical – Split Rail Fence (Aged).

A carefully detailed, rustic wooden fence in kit form.

Included in this product is:
1 fence section – 2 prims
2 corner sections – 5 prims each
2 end pieces with stones – 3 prims each
2 collapsed end pieces – 2 prims each

All pieces are copy/mod so one kit will go a very long way.

I pride myself in releasing only the best content I can in Second Life. Every product I provide to the public through Botanical is a product that I personally use and love.

I hope you will love it as well!

You can see and purchase the fence in Second Life at Botanical at Straylight, or purchase/give as a gift on Xstreet.

 

New Release: Mid Winter Oak

I’m pleased to announce the release of a new winter tree for Botanical, the Mid-Winter Oak. This tree has a rich brown bark texture, with newly fallen snow clinging to it’s surface.  The bare branches show it’s very last autumn leaves strugling to hold on, as the winter season sets in.

This tree includes an additional two prim root set, also with snow, to be used at your disclosure, as well as two shadow prims, one suitable for snowy terrain, and one for grass.

I’m very proud of this release, and I hope it finds a place on your land

Mid Winter Oak is available at the Botanical store starting at L$150 and on XstreetSL starting at L$175

Seasons Greetings!

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XstreetSL: transfer version
XstreetSL: copy version

 

New Release! Botanical Butterflies

Hello All! I took this week to wrap up some old projects that had been around the workspace for a while, and ended up having a lot of fun in the end.

In this release, I’ve included 14 butterfly and moth emitters.  The butterflies are temp rez, animated, and have an approximate 10 meter area. Along with some of my favorite species that I wanted to include in Straylight and Wintermute for some time, I’ve added two special species that will have immediate homes: Flame and Liquid Butterflies   The Flame species has a nasty way of dropping little bits of itself around.  When you get a whole group together, things get REALLY hot!  The Liquid butterflies are often found around streams and playing in and out of the waterfalls.

Stop by Straylight and see for yourself! 

 

More Prim Saving Releases!

As of yesterday, I have officially released what I’m sure is just a beginning in the Botanical Crystals series.

• 18 Crystal Colors
• 4 Crystal Styles
• Particle and Light effects
• 24 Packs of 12 Transferable Clusters
• Single and Multi-Color Sets
• Options for view optimization

All sets include beautiful crystals with a prim count ranging from 1 prim to 3. The largest cluster boasts 64 facets and is only 3 prims. Check out the photos below, then come see for yourself at Botanical!

Like what you see? Come see for yourself at Botanical and enjoy nature re-invented!

 

Botanical New Releases: Palms, Ferns, Grasses

As I had mentioned in the previous post, Sculpted Prims allow us to truly bend the old rules of landscape designing. To this end, I am happy to announce the release of 8 new items to the Botanical catalog, starting with SL’s favorite type of tree, the Palm.

Two Palm tree styles in 4 variations and 3 prims each! Available right now are the Mexican Fan Palm set and the Coastal Palm variety. Extremely low prim and hand detailed with sculpted and normal prim textures.

Even if the world is a beach, you can’t just have trees, however!

That is why I have also introduced one of my favorite creations, the 1 prim plant! Green and Yellow Dune Grass is currently available now at Botanical, and continue the low prim, high detail theme. I have been told from various customers that they have saved upwards of 400 to 1000 (yes, one THOUSAND) prims, just by switching to Botanical’s palm tree and grasses. This is fantastic news. Besides, what use is a tropical getaway, if you don’t have prims left over to really enjoy it?

4 Forest and Tropic Ferns, 1 prim each!

This is just one of the 4 new fern releases that I have made at Botanical. Like the dune grasses, this release boasts a 1 prim sculpted design, and creates an excellent filler for both beach and woodland areas.

These new releases and many more can be found exclusively at the Straylight Botanical store! Come to shop or just to explore, and truly see nature re-imagined!

 

For the Holidays!

Hello Everyone! Kriss here to let you know about the next releases for Botanical!

BOTANICAL UPDATES!
1. Holiday Fir Trees! These are NOT replacements for last week’s fir tree release, but an addition to the line. This release is 8 trees in the style of the original nonscripted Firs, but with a few additions

• Particle lights: Each tree features the classic warm white Botanical fae particles, with the addition of two new colors, Purple/Orange and Blue
• Particle Icicles: Not your typical water freezing ice types, but those little silver strands that the cats and dogs used to pull off the tree, eat, and a couple hours later, have hanging out their rear ends.
• Temp-Rez Tree Topper: A pretty revolving temp-rez light, in the style of the Botanical hanging lights.
• Menu: Click to turn open a menu, which, among other things, allows you to turn off the tree topper, icicles, select light colors, or even set the lights to cycle through all colors.

The trees come in 4 sizes, as well as the green or snowy versions, and are Mod/Trans or Mod/Copy

2. Copyable Fir Trees. Because of the uproar caused by NOT offering copyable versions of last week’s release, I’ve reversed my decision and am now offering the Green Sculpted Fir and Snowy Sculpted Fir additionally as copyable.

STRAYLIGHT UPDATES!
Rumbling and Steam and Lava, OH MY! In the west of the sim, you’ll see a small pine forest has sprouted up, and running through it all… Lava? I’m testing out a future release here, with hand textured lava, flowing sculpts and botanical only sound effects. Random rumbling and steam bursts are worth turning your speakers up for. Windlight users will also notice that I’ve applies a *slight* glow here as well. I would love to know what you think!

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With love respect and honor,
Kriss Lehmann

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New Releases for 2007-11-21! Fir Trees!

Hello everyone! I’m back again! 10 days after I said I would lock myself in my room and make new trees, I return bearing gifts! Well… at least the kinds of trees that you may find gifts UNDER.

BOTANICAL UPDATES!
1. Fir Trees! After a lot of cursing, uploading, additional cursing and the occassional binge on a certain energy drink that “gives you wings”, I am proud to present a line of green fir trees that I am happy to call Botanical’s. I think you will find these very singular looking and beautiful. That might actually be “quadingular” (grammar students, please do not lynch me!) as they come in 4 sizes: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large! Sold as Mod/Trans, you can purchase singles or a pack of all 4. Prices start at L$95… yea!

2. Ok… make that “octingular”, re-read the 1st announcement and replace “Green” with “Snowy”. Yep! The same fir trees I just released have snow frosted brothers and sisters!

You can find the fir trees front and center in the Botanical store (on the middle island of the Straylight sim) or, if you explore, you’ll see their new home in the snowy north eastern section of the sim. Sorry, you’ll have to fly there for right now. We have construction workers (points at self) working on paths to the new areas.

In case you haven’t noticed, the center island store is getting pretty tight (as in “crowded”) As I keep making things to bring Straylight closer to my vision, and make those items available to *everyone* that wants to take a little bit of Straylight home with them, I have to keep pushing out the boundries of the island store. It doesn’t take a scientist (and heck… I’m not even a botanist!) to realise that something has to happen, and soon. You’ve all seen the massive tree in the dead center of the sim, and some of you may have wondered at it’s name… the “Telehub Tree”. That tree was planted a while back when I realized that I would have to have a new way to let people shop, while still enjoying the beauty of Straylight.

Very soon, the TP area of Straylight will be remapped to the middle of the Sim, and you’ll REALLY get a shopping adventure. The main map of Straylight is set up for various “themes” (I’m a theme builder, sorry… it’s just how I roll) Each theme is mapped to a particular section of the Straylight sim, and very soon, there will be a vendor board in each section, selling the items you find in that particular section. I am starting this with the Winter theme, by making the new firs available at the top of the mountain, as well as (for the time being) the center of the island.

Teleports will be made available (via the Telehub tree) for those who know exactly where they want to go, or you can explore the island and pick out things you like. The vendors will only be in one area of each theme, so as not to clutter up the beauty of Straylight, and make things a little more convenient for everyone.

STRAYLIGHT UPDATES!
It’s time to skate! If you’ve been up to the snowy peaks of Straylight, you’ll have seen our own little ice pond! I’ve added a Moopf skate vendor to get the fun started Now that I’m back in world again, look for some more nice diversions in that section of the sim.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/straylight/
11 new members and 83 new photos in 10 days for the Straylight Flickr group, bringing us to 184 members and 1246 photos. The re-release of Windlight on the First Look SL client has spawned an amazing array of gorgeous new additions to the family. Thanks everyone and join me in saying “Welcome!” to our new members!

http://www.b-places.com/top_locations.aspx
The SL community at large is still voting and still pushing Straylight towards the top of all the places to be in Second Life!
10 days has brought 60 more votes, for a total of 1306, placing us at #5!
There is a lot more coming to Straylight and I really hope I keep up with everyone’s expectations!

Straylight Botanical Update Group
614 Members! We’ll have our own Straylight Army before too long!

As you all know, the Straylight Botanical update group is NOT an SL group, and will not eat up your precious group slots. What you may *NOT* know is that this awesome piece of technology is called the “Subscribe-O-Matic”, created by MSo Lambert. A LOT of merchants have found out that you can get your word out a lot easier if you make it easier for people to hear that word. One click sign-ups, web administration, RSS feeds, the list goes on! Mistah Lambert has even made it easy for you to take the Subscribe-O-Matic for a test drive with a free 14 day trial. I believe in this system so much, I not only purchased it immediately after my own trial was up, I’m setting up an affiliate vendor to make it easy for you to start. Look for it right beside the Botanical Straylight update group sign.

That’s all for now! I have to go catch up on all my friends and shake off this energy drink buzz!

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New Releases!

A small collection of releases for Botanical before I go into Winter mode for a while… I hope everyone enjoys!

Ancient Stands (Deep Forest)

The Mega Trees 1 and 2 that originally were at Straylight were there for one reason only: to visually balance the sim. I DID sell quite a few by customer request, but since the trees were mainly for aesthetic purposes in my sim, I didn’t really pay attention to prim levels, resulting in a 66 and 99 prim tree. Today I have pulled the final tree from Straylight to offer *for sale by vendor* an official Botanical Mega Prim tree called “Ancient Stands – Deep Forest”.

This tree also includes what I’m hoping to expand on very soon: Twisted Roots. The roots are optional, and shave an additional 7 prims off the total prim count, if not used.

I do plan on making this a series, some with single tree releases and others with multiple trees, as the theme requires. Please do not ask WHEN these additional trees will be made, though… I’m very busy, and my answer will always be “Soon, I hope!”

Realistic Fireflies

One of the issues I have with “firefly” particle emitters is that the particles are placed in the dome pattern that emitters are almost always forced to use.

I don’t know about many people, but the fireflies that I used to spend so much time watching as a child rose up from the grass at dusk, turning the fields where I grew up into twinkling starry light shows.

So I created an effect that generates a user controlled level of particles that rise up from a horizontal (ie: ground) level.

The emitter uses a dialog menu and offers 10 particle levels with ranges of 5×5 meters to 20×20 meters with (customer requested) an interactive visual range option.

Rainbeams

I directly attribute this release to a customer request, and I instantly fell in love with it. Rainbeams! A rainbow… just without the “bow”. These look amazing layered on each other or just by themselves. These share a few characteristics of the Botanical Sunbeams which have been so well received: Sun Tracking and fae particles.

Prim Fog Emitter

An answer to my own abundant use of particles on Straylight, Botanical Prim fog uses temp rez prims in two sizes, normal 10×10 prim and 20×20 mega prim size in random X, Y, Z locations and random rotation for a very natural low lying fog effect. Transfer and Copy versions available!

 

New Release from the Mediterranean

Botanical announces a new release! Olive Trees! From the warm Mediterranean coasts comes this beautifully detailed evergreen! The trees come in a pack of 3 unique designs, with touch-to-change foliage textures (with or without olive fruits). Perfectly suited for your villa or scenic hillside. Available in mod/trans and mod/copy varieties. See them here!

 

Botanical Releases Sculpted Groundcover!

Everyone has waited for it (and no, I didn’t say patiently) and today I am pleased to announce the release of the first four Botanical Sculpted Groundcover patterns. Each pack contains one pattern, on 6 mod/trans, no copy tiles. These 4 initial patterns can be combined for striking effect, or used by themselves to enhance the standard Second Life ground. They can be found at Straylight Botanical in the new ‘Accessories’ area. Frequent Straylight Pilgrims will recognize it as the area where I play the flute for visitors.

This is only the beginning!