Tutz Zabelin is, frankly, Queen of the paths. This week for our second destination, we visited one of her many beautiful landscape regions, this one called The Waterfall Swamp, on Pangea grid... HG Address is at the end of the post... but you knew that already.
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| Tutz Zabelin |
Our visit of the swamp was originally scheduled for later in the year but due to a last minute cancellation, so we were very happy that Tutz and grid owner Marlon Wayne were able to lay on our tour with very little notice. Shout out to grid gal Kitty Sarrasine also for making sure we had everything optimal! And yeah, the Fall Safari calendar is already beginning to fill up, so if you're interested in having us come visit in September - October - November, it's not too soon to get in touch. Read this page first though. Points 3 and 5 at the end of the page are pretty much a deal breaker.
Pangea is of course one of Opensim's premiere art grids, with an embarras de richesses - so much to choose from! - this however was a brand new sim to everyone on the tour, and as usual Tutz quickly gave us the lowdown on the origins of her creation.
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| Arriving on The Waterfall Swamp |
Dings Digital: this place looks awesome
Star Ravenhurst: There are a lot of us today.
Tutz Zabelin: welcome to Pangea grid and sim Waterfall Swamp. Most of you know my background, but in short I started in SL in 2006 and have been in Open sim most of the time since 2014.
Tutz Zabelin: I built Waterfall Swamps with many ideas in my head that felt important to try out. The ideas often come from pictures I've seen online or other places. It can also be something I come up with myself that I want to try out. The result is not always what I imagined, sometimes worse and sometimes better. Often it all ends up a mess and I start over with a different idea.
Dings.Digital: that's the good thing about opensim, you can try so many times
Tutz Zabelin: As you can see, there are many trees outside the sim itself. I did it mostly to see if it would work and to give the sim a frame. So be careful and don't go too close to the edges.
Thirza Ember: swamps are always dangerous!
Star Ravenhurst: How large is the region?
Marlon Wayne: 512x512
Tutz Zabelin: Waterfall Swamp's city is built with a mix of some self-built houses and the rest ready-made houses from the OS. I love the houses available in Open Sim, most of them are wonderful but I would rather build my own houses. The sim I'm building right now I strive to have as many houses as possible built by myself. Some look old school in my eyes, while some look a little more worked.
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| Tutz leading the tour on foot |
Thirza.Ember: Tutz how many hours do you need to make a sim like this?
Tutz Zabelin: some weeks
Dings Digital: it all looks so natural, like it has grown over time
Thirza Ember: Tutz, I noticed that you make your regions with many hills, that can be difficult, with roads and paths... To get the mesh or prims in the right position, many builders prefer a flat sim...
Forest Azure: yes they do!
Tutz Zabelin: I not like that so much
Forest Azure: good for you, tutz!
Thirza Ember: do you set out all the roads first?
Tutz Zabelin: noo, i take it as it comes
CyberGlo CyberStar: i hope this ends with skateboards
Savage Taurus: that's how most towns grow too...they just build
Karsten Runningbear: Tutz got a great eye for proportions
Symphony Vive: yes. this has a nice flow
Tutz Zabelin: i have done many roads now so i can build them with no problem.
The path led on across a bridge, and into a canyon which opened out into a sort of hidden valley, of great beauty and elegance.
Lily Willow: ..this is awesome !!
Star Ravenhurst: This is very pretty
Alan Scot: I'd kill for the terrain texture
Tina Bey: Yes, really great!!
Forest Azure: wow, that is a whole new concept of free in OS! kill for it!
Tutz Zabelin: if there any you want, you can ask me tomorrow for it :)
CyberGlo CyberStar: it's like the energizer bunny, it keeps going and going and going
Karsten Runningbear: ok Tutz, how much, I will buy that house :))
A VW landscape artist is a storyteller, even when the region, like this one, is not based on any particular story and isn't intended to have a plotline as such. Storytellers know they're on to something when they can create in their audience a 'suspension of disbelief', and Tutz's builds manage to do that - we all felt pretty exhausted after a marathon climb on a zigzag path straight up the mountainside - even though in RL nobody had left their chair.
Symphony Vive: high safari
Nara Nook: Phew I need to catch my breath
Tutz Zabelin: A lookout point where you can have a drink, relax and look at the view
Lily Willow: OMG.. so tired walking up... I need ice-cream...
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| The mountaintop |
Karsten Runningbear: taking a deep breath now :)
Thirza Ember: Tutz you said you get inspiration for photos - do you mean rl places or virtual places made in AI?
Karsten Runningbear: mostly Tutz is searching rl photos
Tutz Zabelin: now we shall go down and enter the swamp... the way to there is not so easy
Lily Willow: ..eeewwww... alligators ?
Marlon Wayne: mosquitos snakes and alligators
Tutz Zabelin: I just felt I had to make a swamp. All the wonderful swamp trees and plants provide great inspiration.
CyberGlo CyberStar: maybe it's a swamp in the amazon jungle
Forest Azure: thirza.. you are showing off!
Thirza Ember: they're harmless
At last we made our way back to the town.
CyberGlo CyberStar: that garden back there was really pretty, I really liked it
Nara Nook: it was
Neo Cortex: Hard to imagine all the hours you put into those builds
Maia Antarra: putting in paths alone is not easy
Marlon Wayne: tutz has so many great ideas in the head
Malburns Craftster: a most excellent adventure as they say, esp the climbing pathways
Forest Azure: it would be a great place for a bicycle
Dings Digital: these streets remind me of New Orleans
George Equus: Very well built indeed! Definitely a return to for me
Tina Bey: Really cool!! The different heights... the route, very beautiful and inspiring!!
CyberGlo CyberStar: do we get any souvenir gifts ?
Symphony Vive: yes. Lovely. wonderful design.
Marlon Wayne: Tutz is already working on a new project. Let yourself be surprised
Tutz Zabelin: My new sim will not get ready in a long time. There I do roads only with prims, and it drives me crazy.
Star Ravenhurst: I can't wait to see the next masterpiece! This has been a pleasure and an inspiration Tutz. Compliments to Marlon for a well run grid as well.
HG Address: pangeagrid.de:8002:The Waterfall Swamp
Crocodiles! How better to encounter them in Open Simulator. A wonderful build Tutz!
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