Saturday, April 25, 2009

New 3D Texture Set from Robin

If you like Victorian millwork, you'll love the texture set I just finished!

I designed it to use as a porch for my Wheel Cottage textures, but it makes great free-standing buildings, like gazebos, as well.

Textures used on a small porch, and a gazebo


There are 30 textures here, including millwork railings, spanderels, and two kinds of brackets, both single brackets and double brackets (which work great as the inside of a box, so you can save prims on your builds.)

There's a seamless banister texture that matches the railings, beadboard for the ceiling (in two colors,) and a porch edge with either vertical siding or lattice below the facing. You also get stair edges to match, with seamless siding or lattice. And, because lattice is good, you'll also get two seamless lattice textures, one diagonal and one square, to make arbors, trellis, and windbreaks.

And of course there's gingerbread for the gable roof, both "painted on" and freestanding (with a matching shadow texture for the gable,) and a mask so you can recolor it easily in your graphics program, if you choose to do that. Or, if there's a limit to the amount of millwork you want, you can use the gable with no gingerbread decoration.

Best of all, you get sculpts to make a beautiful turned porch pillar and newel post, with shaded textures to match them, so you can have a lovely porch with surprisingly few prims. (The porch in the picture, for instance, is only 15 prims!)

All of this goodness comes with railings, banisters, spandrels, siding and lattice in either white or green. (There were too many things to put both in the same package.) If you want to recolor it, I strongly suggest buying the green, because it will give Hue and Saturation something to work with!

L$950 for the package, in either color (or splurge and get both; they look fantastic mixed!) 30 seamless, full permission textures. TRU license applies. (You're buying a license to use the textures, not the textures themselves, so you cannot resell them or give them away as textures, or on a single prim. They must be part of a build, consisting of at least two prims.)

On sale now, at TRU, and at the Texture Library in Livingtree (113, 97, 25). Come check it out!

A new playset at Pygar's Stuff!

Hi!



I have put a new playset out in my store. It's for the Turtles of Mighty Nasty Temperament and includes four turtle guys and their specialty weapons, their sensei who's a rat, and their arch-nemesis who has some very sharp things for hands. :-D They also have a two-levelled play table for staging battles or just hanging out and eating pizza.

Enjoy! :-D
Pygar Bu

Monday, April 6, 2009

More new goodies!

It's springtime, and with that in mind, I've got some brand new products to announce on Livingtree!

First, at the plant stand are two brand new plant varieties! Available now is Peppermint and a Yellow Wildflower! These are only three prims and use scipted prim to make them look that much closer to the real thing! Here's a couple piccies





These are availble from the Plant Stand between the Wiccan Learning Center and Kick the Can

With the improved weather, there's also some new stuff at the campsite, including a camping table to go with the chairs, and the dutch oven both on and off the stand!





Look for those at the Livingtree campsite!

Ready to rock? Get a stone pet!

Envy your friends and their amazing AI critters from a handful of select manufacturers, but your Linden balance is not that of a Rockefeller or Chung? Finally, a solution to fit your budget!

The Stone Pet!



This loveable pet rock will sit merrily on your shoulder or in your hand, or carry him or her around in a handy pet carrier! Includes both stone versions, as well as both a carryable and low-prim display box!

What's more, these rocks are not mute! Click on 'em for a selection of fun, friendly sayings!

Available at You Know, For Kids in Livingtree!

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

New Art Glass Textures for making Stained Glass!

I have a new set of textures for making stained glass in Second Life®.

15 brightly colored sheets of Art Glass


This set of 15 seamless textures is based on the Art Glass that Tiffany popularized at the turn of the last century. If you have my Stained Glass for SL book, you know how to use this.

At the moment, the license will only get you usage within SL; but if you love them, contact me if you want to use them somewhere else, and I'll see what we can do.

They are available now from TRU (search for 'glass') and at the Texture Library at Livingtree (105,90,20). L$350 for the set of 15 seamless textures. Come check them out!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Windchime Easter Eggs

For spring, wind chimes in large eggs with delicate, ornate kaleidoscope patterns on them, in a dozen different colors and patterns, each more beautiful than the last.

Easter Egg Windchimes, Random Play, Six Notes, Lovely Sound


Pick your favorite, or collect all twelve!

They all play a totally random series of six pure sampled chime notes. There are no repeating loops to drive you crazy here, just wonderful, relaxing chimes.

Touch the egg, and the owner can change the volume, or turn the chimes off or on. When you have turned them off, you can choose to start playing again at a new volume, or Resume at the volume you were using, so you don't have to remember what that was.

You really have to hear these to appreciate them! So come and play with the demo, in the Home and Garden store at Livingtree (85,128,24). L$125, Transfer Only, so they make perfect Easter gifts. Tuck one in a basket for someone you love.

See you in world!

Friday, March 27, 2009

New 3D Texture Set from Robin

As I may have mentioned, I'm now designing textures for TRU (Textures R Us).

The first 3D set is now done, and available both at the TRU store and website (look under 3D Build - New Sets) and in the Texture Library at Livingtree (105, 90, 20).

Tiny cottage showing exterior textures


It comes in two sets, for the interior and exterior of a little Victorian style cottage, with gingerbread featuring a wheel in the gable. Which is why it's called Wheel Cottage. (It doesn't have to be this tiny, of course. This is just to show the textures. Anything not included in the two packs is black.)

I tried to make the texture flexible, and easy to recolor. So, along with the gingerbread that's part of the texture, there's a gingerbread "stand alone" and a texture with just a shadow on it, so you can put the gingerbread on a separate prim, if you want. I also included a mask for Photoshop, so you can easily recolor the siding without touching the gingerbread, if you'd like to.

The windows are included with Alphas, so you can see through them, and without, so you won't have any alpha sorting issues. They also come with shutters, with curtains, with a flower box full of purple petunias, with any combination of the three of them, or just plain with nothing; and masks are included to make it simple to change the colors of anything very easily (except the petunias.) There are instructions, too, in case you're not sure what to do in Photoshop. (That's all I use, so if you use something else, I'm afraid you're on your own.)

Cottage interior


On the inside, the windows have curtains, flowers from the flower boxes outside, both, or neither; and once again the alpha and no-alpha versions are included. All the interior textures are also included with molding that runs along the ceiling, or without. So if you want to have the wallpaper extend up the inside of the gable, you can; or, if you prefer a flat ceiling, you can have that, too! Most of the inside textures you can mask yourself with just a rectangle. But there's a mask for the door, because it's slightly more involved.

Closeup through the outside window, into the inside


All together, there are 30 exterior textures and 23 interior textures, to make a very charming little cottage. L$750 each pack.

Check them out! I think you'll like them.