Category: creations

Here’s my latest toy… the Terra Sport Chute.

click to see catalog listing

Gotta love the 70s styling. Looks like it came right out of Delta Force or A-Team. With this one, I wanted to take the “E-Chute” and add all the sport skydiving features that SLers have come to expect and more. Just strap it on and click it for a menu of options. If you forget to set your auto-deploy altimeter — no problem. Just press Page Up in freefall to pull the ripcord and glide safely to the ground.

Features:

* Permissions: Can modify the parachute (but not scripts), can copy it, but no “resell/give away” permissions.

* Click the pack for the menu. Also allows chat commands, if that’s what you prefer.

* Set the auto-deploy altimeter to open the chute at any altitude you choose.

* Heads-up display shows altitude, speed, and auto-deploy status.

* The parachute is modifyable, so you can edit the pack and canopy to any color you want.

* Includes helmet.

My time online in the last couple of days has been all about tearing down my old shop and building the new one. It’s a poopload of effort, but I think it’s going to be good.

The problem with my last shop, and every shop I had before now, is that it was just a row of display models. Boooring. Why bother to log onto SL, if you can’t have a little fun?

That’s why my new shop has a fully functional hangar deck (no, not “fully functional” in the Lt. Commander Data sense of the word). The hangar door and roof open (just click it) and you can test drive any of the aircraft on display on that deck. The demo vehicles last as long as you sit on them, then disappear.

Next door to the hangar is the sub room, where you’ll find a bubbly underwater theme and all of my subs. No demos in there yet, but I might be able to work on that soon.

Come and play for a bit.

I don’t know, but it took a couple of weeks and five beta testers to complete the new Terra Tigershark submersible aircraft.

The Tigershark can seat two avatars and has better all around performance and usability than the Cormorant. A new menu-driven options menu makes it much easier to set up the Tigershark’s options, paint scheme, and turn on-off combat.

Many thanks and kudos go to the crack team of Tigershark beta testers: Matthias Zander, Michael Martinez, Cruiser Guilman, Mak Marshall, and Torley Torgeson. You’ll note that the Tigershark includes a “watermelon” paint scheme for all of those watermelon fans out there. :)

For now, the Tigershark is available only on SL Exchange, mainly because it was easier than updating a bunch of vendors. Within a few days, you can get it at my shop at Abbotts Aerodrome, in the northwest corner of Abbotts.

Only a short time after I finished the Tigershark, I started playing with an idea that I’d had a while back. I wanted to make some kind of flying sub that’s inspired by the shape of a whale. They’re streamlined and beautiful — perfect models for any vehicle.

Some months ago, I made a test vehicle called “Beluga”. Well it was too ugly to keep working on, but I was still interested in pursuing the concept.

Now I have a prototype for the Orca, a shape inspired by killer whales.

I’m not certain that I’ll finish this one, but it sure is weird.