{"id":7580,"date":"2024-09-17T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2024-09-17T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:41:42","slug":"combining-rented-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/combining-rented-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining Rented Land"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With a Linden Home in Second Life<\/h1>\n
By<\/span> Inara Pey<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Isla Myvatn, my Second Norway home, now completely converted to represent the remnants of a former fortification, and now forming a series of semi-wild courtyard gardens, with the exception of the pool house and boat moorings (bottom of picture) and the little cliff-edge summer house. The ruins are elevated above the pool house so it does not interfere with their sense of age.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Two of the things I love doing in Second Life are landscaping and building \/ kitbashing; I have in the past droned on about the commercially available houses I\u2019ve purchased and then adapted for personal use (as well as some of my personal prim-based builds modelled after real and film structures). The former have been written in the hope of encouraging others to give kitbashing ago (with a couple of additional articles being written to help with this; however, regulars have probably noticed that over the last year-ish, I\u2019ve not said much on the home front.<\/p>\n

Well, buckle-up (or run away!), because here I go again 😀 .<\/p>\n

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As it used to be: A copy of Marcthur Goosson\u2019s NO Cottage Bizar converted into a comfortable house opening onto the main courtyard of the original \u201ccastle ruins\u201d which utilised some of Marcthur\u2019s Ruined Wall kits<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The major reason for not writing is because in Marcthur Goosson\u2019s NO Cottage Bizar<\/a>, I found what\u00a0 \u2013 for me \u2013 has been the perfect design from which to create an ideal home. I did provide a articles about a couple of my projects to adapt it for use as both a house and also to contain a swimming pool; but since those first went out, I\u2019ve continued to refine and improve upon ideas, creating What I like to think of as a cosy home \u2013 I\u2019ve just not wanted to bore people by banging on about all the updates and changes!<\/p>\n

Some of this work has included a move to a larger island within Second Norway, which has allowed me to play with ideas for extended gardens and yet more ruins, making further use of Marcthur\u2019s ruined Wall kits (all five of which can be purchased as a single full perm pack as well as individual Copy \/ Mod items \u2013 see his Marketplace store<\/a> for more). Whilst this hasn\u2019t been written about, some of the on-going work has appeared in my Primfeed gallery.<\/p>\n

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With the removal of one set of internal walls and a re-panelling of others (and using the structure\u2019s tower stairs to reach the upper floor rather than the metal stairways), the NO Cottage Bizar lends itself to providing a large living room area with the remaining lower floor room making an excellent kitchen + dining space.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

With the latter, I\u2019ll freely admit to being inspired to play around with designs using Marcthur\u2019s kits thanks to Lilly Blackwood and her SL and RL partner William Winchester, who have used seveal of the wall kits to great effect within their Winchester Harbor region design which I visited in August 2024<\/a>, and their work did more than a little to prompt me to look at my own use a little more creatively \u2013\u00a0 so thank you, Lily and William for the inspiration!<\/p>\n

The thing I like about the NO Cottage is the fact it so easily lends itself to so much in the way of kitbashing: internal walls and stairways can easily be removed to open-out interior spaces; new internal walls can be linked into the design; the external courtyard is easily converted into an additional room, if required \u2013 it is just and absolute joy to work with and tweak. However, throughout all the recent work, an itch I\u2019ve suffered on-and-off for a fair number of years now decided to make itself felt again.<\/p>\n

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I re-worked the swimming pool in the pool house version of the NO Copy Bizar Cottage earlier in the year, and more recently added a mirror to the far wall, together with a stairway to reach the upper gardens and summer house.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

As a Premium account holder, I\u2019ve often availed myself of the Linden Homes perk provided to such account by LL. I\u2019ve both reviewed themes as they\u2019ve been released<\/a> and I\u2019ve shared ideas on how to customise them to offer more unique and personal interiors (notably with the Houseboat theme, which has long been my favourite). However, I\u2019ve never really\u00a0lived<\/em> in any of the modern Linden Homes for any real length of time; rather, I\u2019ve simply furnished them and then used them as a bolt-hole into which I could dive in order to avoid the Ravenous Restart Beast of Agni. Yet I\u2019ve often wondered how I might somehow more comfortably link island home and Linden Home in a way that lets me make more use of both.<\/p>\n

Although it took a while to register (because I\u2019m not exactly the fastest train on the tracks), the answer has been staring me in a face for about as long as I\u2019ve been going through my on \/ off phases in thinking about the issue. In short: why not simply extend the local experience I have on the home island for various purposes (such as maintaining privacy from folk randomly teleporting in), and use it to include the Linden Home in a manner that makes passing between the two feel as natural as possible?<\/p>\n

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One of the summer houses on the island \u2013 this one is used with the re-vamped \u201ccastle ruins\u201d and utilises one section of Cory Edo\u2019s Yara Treehouse. Cory is another go-to building designer for me, because many of her designs are extremely flexible in terms of modding or kitbashing them<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

One of the key benefits in finding a means of linking the Linden Home with the island home as seamlessly as possible meant I could potentially remove the (much loved) No Cottage Bizar conversion and extend the ruins and gardens to present a place of quiet retreat, with my Linden Home becoming the \u201chouse\u201d for this setting. Admittedly, this did mean moving out of my Linden Houseboat (as it just didn\u2019t sit well with the rst of my ideas), but this was offset by that fact that the Linden Home theme best suited to matching the rest of my design ideas was that of the Log Homes \u2013 and these happen to be a style I\u2019ve always liked but never actually held; this therefore seemed to be the perfect opportunity to try them on for size.<\/p>\n

So, for the last couple of weeks, and using the aforementioned kits from Marcthur, plus plants and landscaping kits from some of my preferred creators \u2013 such as Cube Republic<\/a>, Alex Bader<\/a>, Sasaya Kayo<\/a>, and Krystali Rabeni<\/a> \u2013 I\u2019ve been once more re-doing the grounds of the island home to extend the ruins and gardens to occupy the space previously taken by the NO Cottage house; I left the pool house and boat moorings in place because I still want to make use of the waters in Second Norway (and beyond) for sailing \/ boating \/ flying, and because \u2013 well, where else am I going to \u201cown\u201d property with a large private swimming that come maintenance free?<\/p>\n

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One of the \u201cgarden courtyards\u201d that replaced the NO Cottage Bizar house. Maybe at one time it was a hall or something. Now it is occupied by some of the statues from CioTToLiNa Xue<\/a> and ArtemisGreece<\/a> I\u2019ve collected or have been gifted over the years <\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Not that the House has gone forever; I\u2019m a great believer in rezzing systems, keeping a number available in my inventory toolbox. One of these, Seedro Lowey\u2019s Magic Rezzer<\/a>, is ideal for swapping between scenes quickly (well, once you\u2019re sorted through want is to go where and as a part of which scene!). This has allowed me to take the No Cottage house and its immediate surroundings \u2013 lawns, summer house, plants, trees \u2013 and create a scene, and then do the same with ne expanded ruins and their flora and immediate surroundings. Thus, with a click on the rezzer and then on the dialogue box, I can happily switch between the two, and without affecting the rest of the build.<\/p>\n

In doing so, I\u2019ve also been able to maintain additional individually between the two settings\u00a0 through the simply use of different summer houses, etc. For these I turned to Cory Edo, one of my go-to building designers, because her structures are generally very kitbashable \/ moddable. In particular, her Moosehead Lake Log Cabin<\/a> formed the basis for a summer house to go with the No Cottage house layout,\u00a0 whilst one of the two structures from her Yara Treehouse<\/a> became the basis for a small \u201chideaway\u201d outside of the ruins, complete with a little \u201cbalcony\u201d from where passing boats can be observed.<\/p>\n

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One of the garden paths winding around the island to connect the ruins<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

As to the \u201cintegration\u201d of the Linden Home, that was simply a case of installing a doorway in one of the archways within the ruins. Behind it, I placed a TP-on-collision-scripted prim using the local Experience to direct Group members to the Linden Home location. A photo of my Log Home taken at the appropriate angle and in the right ratio means that when the door is opened, it seems to give you a view through the arch to the Linden Home on the \u201cother side\u201d of the wall; then when you \u201cstep through\u201d the arch, you arrive in the Linden Home parcel on the \u201cother side\u201d of the doorway.<\/p>\n

Using an identical door set into an identical wall on the Linden Home parcel does the same in reverse \u2013 the door opens to reveal the island gardens beyond, and \u201cstepping through\u201d the archway teleport you to them.\u00a0This is not a particularly new trick with portals, but it has achieved what I want, and to further assist in the sensation that both island and Linden Home are connected, I\u2019ve used the same EEP 24-hour Day Cycle in both (obviously set to UK time!), thus maintaining the same overall ambience between the two.<\/p>\n

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The teleport portal leading to my Linden Home, allowing me to \u201cconnect\u201d it with the island, making them sort-of extensions to one another<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

All that\u2019s needed now is for me to add a further script to the TP prims so that the images they show switch between daylight and night-time to (roughly) match the EEP settings, and I\u2019ll be done 🙂 . However, that\u2019s an \u201cif \/ maybe\u201d project for another day!<\/p>\n

Whether or not this approach to help \u201cconjoin\u201d or \u201cintegrate\u201d a Linden Home was other property you may hold is of any use to you is obviously up to you; all I can say is, it keeps my little mind happy 🙂 . If it does appeal, and it\u2019s something you hadn\u2019t considered\u00a0 \/ would like to try \u2013 feel free to run with it; as noted, the basic idea isn\u2019t in any way original to me and has been used in various forms for years \u2013 so just take it and run with it as you please!<\/p>\n

And with that, I\u2019ll shut up and leave you in peace!<\/p>\n

My Linden Log home showing the door of the portal to the island off to the left of the house, within the old walls (it\u2019s closed in the picture because I felt it looked odd seeing it open to show the gardens of the home island through it, whilst over the wall above it, my neighbors house is clearly visible!) Each end of the teleport is oriented so people arrive as if they\u2019ve simply opened either door and walked through

Have A Great Day From All Of Us At Zoha Islands\/Fruit Islands
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