Rebuilding
My sister has been feeling pretty bad for the last couple of days – a dose of flu has knocked her about, and made it impossible for her to go to work. Customers tend not to appreciate being confronted with someone coughing, spluttering, and sweaty. Well, most customers don’t appreciate it, anyway.
The upside is that while she’s been at home, I’ve had time to work on some changes that I started at the weekend.
I’ve had my original house pretty much since I moved in to Scepter’d Isle over a year ago. It was a colaborative effort between myself and Render, my partner then. To be fair, the hard work was largely done by Ren, and most of my contribution was in the form of ideas.
It was a nice house, a novel layout, and it generally worked pretty well, but there had always been an intermittent problem with the scripts which operate the doors, and with the transparency of the windows. The windows caused the walls to be transparent to prims outside – so from time to time I’d see trees in my lounge. Worse though, was that, unpredictably, the doors would jam in odd positions, and the only practical solution was to delete the affected section of the house, and rez a new copy in the same place. This might happen two or three times a day, or once in two or three months. At the weekend, I got to the position that even re-rezzing a copy didn’t fix the problem – the doors wouldn’t open at all. Maybe it’s due to underlying changes in the scripting environment, or the server code or whatever, but it makes little difference. There’s not much point having a house you can’t get into.
So I bit the bullet, deleted the old house, and put up a new one.
The one I selected is the Rylo model by Ace – actually, she very generously gave this to me when I got the plot in Scepter’d Isle. It’s somewhat larger than the previous house, more open and airy, but not – I hope – too large for the land it’s on. It’s much more modern in design than the previous place, but I think it still keeps some northern Italian character – and not all villas in Tuscany look like the stereotype Tuscan Villa.
It’s not finished yet – there are loads of decorative details to fix, and I don’t yet have a bathroom (though I do have a hot tub set in the floor). Shame my sister had to be ill, but at least it’s allowed me to make a good start.