When I saw the cats and watermelons jumping like lemmings from the sky platform in Tokyo Peninsula, I knew that I had found a keeper. The whole thing looks like a scripting and Havok 4 physics playground, with a kind of feline tiny theme going on.
Click or approach or touch everything, because you ever know what will happen. Something will meow, or move, or explode, or do something surprising. Trust me, I’m not covering the half of it here. Some of it is incomplete, like this giant domino set. I’m able to make the pink rocket shoot into the sky, but it doesn’t quite reach it’s destination and the sequence ends.
Standing on this weight causes a rectangular prim to run down the tube. When it hits the chamber at the other end, smoke pours out and something circular bounces out. Why? Who knows?
Hmmm, what will happen if you push these snow cats? I’ll let you find out.
Now, you’re probably wondering what happens to the cats when they hit ground zero. Well, they splash down in the ocean. Luckily they can swim. Okay, I lied, they can’t swim, but they can float, sometimes with their heads up. Heh.
The ground is full of more stuff to see and touch, like these fans. They sell a tiny avatar version nearby. I had to buy one, of course, because it’s so awesomely odd. There’s also a refrigerator avatar with a very fresh fish flopping around inside.
Here’s a different use of particles. Paint a face on the giant tiny! Giant tiny. There’s an oxymoron for you.
Some of what you’ll find is just cute, like this moon on which you can relax. On the other end of the region there’s a sun. You can’t lay on the sun, though. Of course not, you’d burn up.
Here’s a wide angle of the land so you can get a sense of what I’m talking about here. It’s endlessly whimsical and interactive. At one point there were violent explosions all over the island, but I’m not sure if I caused them or if it’s a regular event. Like I said, click everything.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/TokyoPeninsula/53/93/601
The first “machine” you described can be used to “morse-code” letters..
You can try by jumping short and long, but thats incredibly hard, clicking (and holding) for short or long periods works a lot better…
You can then see your “signal” be send along the “cable”, where it ends up in the “receiver” box, which “throws out” the letter you “morsed”….
It’s actually a lot harder then it sounds
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Alex
Wow, now that is something else!
/me points at the MASSIVE board explaining the Morse alphabet in the background of the picture
Well, it did take some time to figure out how to make “short” signals…
But when you get it, it’s actually quite cool…
And, obviously, like most of the SIM, apparently everything was scripted by somebodwy who says
“llSleep (57600)”
instead of “good night/sleep well”
( I don’t really understand why most of the -really- awesome content creators in second life tend to keep “hidden”, not publishing their work. Maybe it’s because they spent all time creating stuff, so they don’t have time to promote their creations )
That place was a lot of fun, for no apparent reason. Thanks Garth!