Hello and good evening everyone,

there was a zen garden in the swag bag that you could get. I did it, I did not regret it, at this point my heartfelt thanks to RLC.

Zen Buddhism or Zen for short is one of the most common schools of Buddhism in Japan today. Zen originated in China from the 5th century as Chan and reached Japan from the 12th century, where this Buddhist current was decisively developed.

Some think like me, do not like the - sorry RLC - hideous pill trays. For me, the aversion to playing with drugs is professionally conditioned, I now see the consequences of drugs and their abuse on a daily basis. Now, of course, you can say that here, in a computer animated game no consequences, as I see them and must experience, arise.

That is correct at first. But what about younger or young users who see and experience it here and then suppress the terrible consequences in real life as a result? Resist the beginnings, I like to say.

For this reason, I always like to develop props where the user who wants to have a glowie has to eat something, sometimes fruit, sometimes a fish morsel, some pizza, a sweet or whatever atmospherically fits in the layout in question.

For the Zen Garden I have developed something new that I now like to share with you. We remember? Zen? Primarily coming from Japan? What could be more obvious than to have two pretty plates with sushi, under which the invisible Pill Tray can be hidden.

The two Sushi Plates I've developed are designed for the Prop "Primitive Cylinder". For once, completely against my other habits, I went to the limit with the two plates, both prop maps are for once png and in the size of 2048 x 2048 pixels. This was done exceptionally times to have the best possible performance of the props, razor sharp.

But of course you can resize them. I have my layout in the Zen Garden, a new one, with relatively few props for my conditions already finished, it is complete. Therefore, I could allow myself this time to be a little more generous with the few textures with these two sushi plates.

Here are the links to the textures:



please download them after opening them with the links in a new tab by right clicking. Because of their size, there is no preview of the propmaps here today, they would go beyond the scope of the forum. I can only offer two screenshots today.



Have fun, stay healthy, divingA

Hello Nef,

first of all thank you for the compliment.

Unfortunately, I discovered only on the screenshot that it second plate does not look as good as thought and planned. Therefore, here now the corrected, the improved version.



As you can easily see, I eliminated the nasty looking white edges. I'm just wondering now why I only noticed them on the screenshot.

Have fun, divingA

Hello everyone, good evening,

for reasons already mentioned above, I'll stay here at least for today, but probably for more days on the topic of Japan.

Today I share with you a dozen Japanese lamps, all designed for the prop "Japanese Lamp". I find this prop very useful because it can serve as both a floor lamp and a bedside lamp when resized.

And why a dozen of them now? Simple, I went with two different designs for the lampshade and six different wood tones. So now everyone can pick out the best of them for his taste. All files are optimized JPG files, have fun with them. Here are the Prop Maps for download and upload in your own Picture Host, below for those who want it easy, the respective hotlink for direct use.



Have fun decorating, stay healthy, have a great weekend,

divingA

Nice work on your Japanese themed treasures, I am sure many will agree and am sure your gift to the greater audience will surely be snatched up and now I
am wondering what master piece your unveiling next.

Twilight

Hello and good evening everyone,

well, evening is too much to say even for me, but what the heck, at least it's already getting dark outside. So really bright it has not become with us all day, it was a gray dreary autumn day, not necessarily the nicest thing when you have the day as a day off work. But that's what RLC is for, it still inspires me despite all the negative opinions of others, even after 15 years.

So what did I do on this really unpleasant day outside? Inside, I sat comfortably at my desk in front of my computer and watched lamps ... or more precisely, "Floor Lamps Wooden Japanese", so that you can use them either indoors as normal floor lamps, or in your Zen gardens, there as a garden lamp. If you want to use them in the garden as a garden lamp, the lamps must of course also get a small roof. After all, you don't want it to rain in where electric power theoretically flows.

Here are the results of my free time, take what you need, first 10 lamps, then 7 roofs for the lamps, all made based on the "Primitive Pyramid" prop.



So much for the 10 lamps in various wood tones, take what you need. Now the roofs if you want them to serve as garden lamps. Here I deliberately chose materials that would also serve traditionally as materials for roofing in Japan and are found there.



Stay healthy everyone, have a good start to a new week,

divingA

Hello everyone,

The new year is already 11 days old, for me it started with a lot of work, which I have been following up with a lot of relaxation since Saturday. The old year said goodbye to me in RLC on 27 December with a beautiful new template from the Loyalty Bag, the Rude Zaby Waterfront, for which I would first like to thank RLC.

I visited the template for the first time on the sixth of January, as I didn't have time to do so before. It almost blew me away, what a great template. So much space, so many options, pure madness.

However, there is a small fly in the ointment: to the right of the default landing spot there is another house hidden behind rocks, but for whatever reason it is closed to me. I can't get in.

But that doesn't detract from my love of the template, because I love it even without access to this house with the other three buildings that can be found on it.

So I've been working on this template since Saturday, first of all with the WTE. After that, I started adding doors and windows to the other three buildings. The name of the template says it all ... Waterfront ... a template with such a maritime environment just cries out for maritime designed doors.

Some friends have already visited me there and most of them thought my doors were very nice. And that brings us to the crucial point of my postings for today. After some begging from a few friends, I have decided to share these doors with you.

Here they are, 8 x 2 textures, first the raw door with just a little greenish tinted glass, then the seven special maritime doors. The first version without door handle, the second version with door handle.



But attention, all doors are PNG files. This means that each door must be checked in the state tab Texture Translucent, the first one, the raw door, requires a value of 1 in the box behind it, the maritime ones perform best with a value of 50.

I don't need to say that each of these doors can be functionally installed in rotating doors or sliding doors with the "Door Object" script according to your own wishes.

Stay safe and be well you all, have fun and success, divingA

Awwwww so super cute thank you Diving hun
big huggssssss Missy

Hello everyone,

I've had my alpine hut in Austria for two years now, but it's still my most favorite of all my self-built layouts. However, this is mainly for very personal reasons that are not relevant here.

I have a greater need for ladders in this layout. First of all, there is that old hayloft in the hut itself, which should realistically be reached via a ladder. But there is also a high hunting seat, which also needs to be reached via a ladder. And finally there are the many apple trees - after all, the hut is fictitiously located in the Mostviertel region, which is known for its meadows with apple or pear trees.



Since building the layout, I have been torturing my brain over and over again as to how I could best create a ladder that seemed realistic. What haven't I tried? With Zaby Partitions, with Walls, with Signs_01, with Railroad Tracks, but I was never really happy with any of the solutions I came up with.

Today I tried again, and - surprise surprise - today I finally got the hang of it. The solution is so simple that unfortunately it took me a while to figure it out.

Now I can well imagine that there are many others among you who want a nice and stable, but above all three-dimensional appearing ladder and are looking for a solution just like me. That's why I want to share my solution with you here.

The prop that I have finally used to make really nice ladders for my hut is the prop: "Balcony Rail". A reasonably sensible and realistic size for the prop is 1.0 x 0.6 x 1.0. You first have to create it like this and then continue working in the Rotation tab, where you first enter the rotation of your future ladder in the X axis at 270° and only then enter 270° in the Z axis. This point is very important!

Now you can lower the ladder to the ground and then adjust the ladder to your needs in terms of inclination in the Rotation tab. To do this, edit the value in the Z axis, for example with an inclination of 250°.

Now you can see a ladder whose rungs have little in common with a real ladder. It is therefore necessary to clone this ladder. The rotation you have specified in the Y axis must now be rotated by exactly 180°. The rotation of the Z axis must then be adapted to the first ladder. Remember: 250° in the example, i.e. 270° - 20°. These 20° must now be added to the second ladder, i.e. 270° + 20° = 290°.

Now just push the second ladder onto the first and you have a perfect ladder. It even looks so realistic that the rungs of the ladder now appear somewhat worn out.

Is it too high for your purposes? No problem, change the size in the X axis or lower the ladder below the floor. All that remains to be done is to paint the former balcony railing black. Here, too, I experimented a little with my textures and looked at the ladders with many different textures, made of wood, metal and painted.

In the following I provide you with 10 textures with which the ladders look realistic and good.

Here are 5 textures for wooden ladders:



And now here are 5 textures for ladders made of metal or painted ladders.



Have fun and good luck, stay healthy, divingA

Hello everyone,

have a little fun here with a dish prepared in the family kitchen at my home, a classic stake with a lye pretzel.

If the dish "Stake" is on the menu in a restaurant, there are two possibilities. This is because in mostly southern Germany, i.e. in Bavaria and parts of Baden-Württemberg, there are two types of Stake on offer. On the one hand, it can be a pastry, i.e. a sweet dessert, a sheet cake.

What I have prepared here today for my husband and children for lunch is the savoury version of what is also offered as stake in (southern) Germany.

9 Nuremberg Rostbratwurst sausages, served with mustard and flanked by a lye pretzel cut into halves. Of course there was also salad for all of us, my children, my husband and myself.Here comes the result of first shot with my camera, appliable to a simple "Sign_01" prop.



Maybe some of you don't like our family tableware. For those of you, I've also deleted the plate from the photo I took at lunchtime today. This way it can, once applied again to Sign_01 prop, be added to either the Giant Plat prop or the Empty Plate prop, then just on top of the plate props:



And once I had this blank, I put it on the regular Giant Plate prop, just to make a version that is pretty much easier for those with elder computers tortured. There are still people that have elder computers, for those we all should always keep storage capacity low. This is why you get the "stake" on a JPG file with much lesser need of capacity.



Have fun, bon appétit, don't let anyone spoil your RLC fun,

divingA

Taking time to smell the roses, well flowers at any rate.
Nice work on the truck sweetie.