When decorating it is always best to keep in mind the different types of audiences that will be viewing your amazing work. Not everyone has the best graphics card or the ability to run at ultra so it may not look the way you imagined it on a lower-end PC. The place to start is under the Object tab when you right-click on an object and choose Edit.
Under this tab, you will see the number of Triangles used for that Level of Detail. Think of this as the complexity of the item and just as for avatars it can add up when you have multiple "complex" items in a small area.
There is no wrong amount of Triangles to have on a mesh item but depending on the system others are using (and sometimes the client), they may not be seeing the scene the way you do.
The client will actually "cull out" (hide the items completely) if there are too many Triangles used in an area of mesh items. You may see this sometimes when zooming in and out will make mesh items disappear.
Just like when you wear attachments on your avatar and check your "Complexity," keep in mind the number of Triangles in your decorating so your vision comes across to all who visit!
Newly added Listings. Week of September 12th, 2021
For the week of September 12th, 2021, we have 1 new listing this week to share with you.
Welcome, this week we have a news update on one of our Bellisseria Resident Information Locations. The Bellisseria Citizens Headquarters has moved to a brand new location among the lovely Chalet theme homes. Upon entering the building you will find an information desk with group joins for their main group, their Discord server, and Flickr group you can get involved with. In the side room there is a wall of Bellisseria's top groups you can browse through, find something of interest you might want to join. You'll also find there Jon Ree's Bellisseria Landmarks and the Parade of Homes blog listing board, along with some Resident made gifts you can pick up to use at your own Belli home.
Wandering around outback, you'll come across a Greedy game table, call in some friends and enjoy an evening of gaming at our Citizens Headquarters. A special thank you to the staff of the Bellisseria Citizens Headquarters for their dedicated volunteer work and this lovely new headquarters location they have provided for our community.
Welcome to the Bellisseria Decorator's Find of the Week for August 29th, 2021. This week, I wanted to focus on one of my favorite items I always include in decorating one of my homes or establishments. The animated bento drink dispensers.
I feel like my place is complete when I can sit back, click on a drink dispenser and get a nicely detailed drink with realistic animation. No more drinks spilled down my front or aimed for my eye. My preferred creator is Caroline Planer's No.59 store. I have a large collection of her items from beers to wines, sodas, and hard liquors, and not only are the animations the best in SL for drinks, but the attention to detail is also just as wonderful. You hold a drink for roughly 18 - 22 minutes, only taking a sip every minute or so, the drink will eventually self detach and delete. Some of the dispensers are very immersive in preparing your drink as well. I recommend visiting her in-world store and sampling the displays she has set out before picking up some of your favorite ones.
Bellis Blues Cafe bar with No.59 drinks on display Image shown above - Espressomachine F-Class Gastro
Another feature that I enjoy adding to my Bellisseria parcel when all my decorating is complete is a nice WL EEP setting. The one I use the most, which I got off Marketplace, is called JuicyBomb. I often use this when taking photos or filming videos. There are 3 collections you can pick up. Normal daylight EEP from sunrise, midday to sunsets, another collection which includes rainbows, and a third collection that has accompanying water settings. Below are a few photos of WL EEP examples. The first is a normal SL midday setting, the two below are a clear day and sunset JuicyBomb EEP setting.
SL - Midday WL JuicyBomb-Clear As Day EEP JuicyBomb-West (Sunset) Rainbow EEP JuicyBomb-Clear As Day EEP off the port side of our Houseboat
Feature Video | Mistbrooke Fantasy Home Home Decorated by Hedy Heartstong
This week we have a special feature video for our readers to enjoy. Video Premiere is Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. slt.
Guest Interior Designer Hedy Heartsong Writer: Prudence Anton
This week I wanted to feature one of our Second Life artists for our Decorator's Weekly Find, Hedy Heartsong. I met Hedy back in late February, 2021, when she entered our first Bellisseria Parade of Homes decorator's contest. I had many homes to visit and when I saw her beautiful stilt it left me awed at the attention to detail and beauty she executed in her design. One of the most impressive features was the interior wallpaper shell she had created. She has an incomparable talent that leaves one feeling you are not just in a beautiful home, but a House Beautiful magazine feature article. Those that see or discover her interior wallpaper shells immediately ask if she sells these on Marketplace or at a store in-world. Its not difficult to imagine why many admirers would covet having one of her shell designs inside of their own homes.
I met up with Hedy this week to talk, after the recent release of the Linden Lab Fantasy Home theme and discovered her busy at work decorating one of these gorgeous homes. I found her to be a warm, personable, and friendly woman to friends and strangers alike. I had many questions and she graciously provided my curiosity with modest, but enthusiastic answers, read on below.
Hedy Heartsong
Pru: When did you discover Second Life?
Hedy: I found an advertisement for the beta in 2003 but after being rejected I joined SL in 2004.
Pru: What are some of your favorite things to do in SL?
Hedy: I enjoy friends most of all but being creative is a close second. I also enjoy exploring and shopping.
Pru: For those that know of your skills, you are a very talented interior designer, how did you get started with home decorating and what fuels your passion today?
Hedy: Thank you. It's fun!!! I used to have my own regions but gave them up after many years. I designed/decorated for myself there and it just continues here. The linden homes are a smaller pallet but are just as much fun to me.
Pru: What brought you to Bellisseria and tell us about the excitement and challenges you find in decorating these new Linden Lab premium homes?
Hedy:
My friends were telling me about their homes here and I was ready to sell my last region so I came to check it out. I liked what I saw so I stayed.
The biggest challenge and one I have learned to “sort of “ enjoy is the 351 LI limit. Making and using my wallpaper shells really helps. For me, they fill the empty corners.
Pru: Do you have a favorite home theme?
Hedy: Definitely the Victorians. I do love this Fantasy though too and every time it gets dark I am loving it more and more.
Pru: Tell us a little more about yourself, anything you'd like our readers to know about your interests in SL, your artistry inspiration, and if you plan to market some of your interior shell designs in the near future?
Hedy:
I am the artist previously known as Tequlia Tapioca and after winning a free name change I was finally able to get rid of the typo :)
I build for myself and share with my friends but after having so many requests I have begun adding the shells on MP for sale.
We filmed a Fantasy themed home this week that I decorated to showcase the beauty of this new 8th theme of the Linden Labs premium homes that Patch Linden and his team of moles created for us. We hope to have a second video available for you to view next week. I hope you enjoy it. - Pru
Welcome to the Bellisseria Decorator's Find of the Week for August 16th, 2021. This week, with the new Fantasy homes themes release, we're jumping right in with a few of our favorite fantasy decoration items.
Our first item this week is for our exterior garden area. I have loved the HPMD products for some years now and all the foliage we used was from the HPMD product line, featuring trees, bushes and flowers. We mixed them in with a few of the Fantasy homes content creator's pack plants and it worked out very nicely, too. For our trees, we used the HPMD* Garden Tree09 with Lights, these range from 7, 8 and 16 LI each but are well worth the prims and you don't need many to really bring attention to your fantasy garden. You can get these trees in different colors. I selected to use the blue-green trees for my own garden. For the bushes we used the HPMD* Shrub03 flower bushes, these range from 1 to 3 LI and come in a variety of colors. And for our flowers we used the HPMD* Sweet Garden Grass06 cool colors mix these range from 1 to 2 LI each and come in a variety of colors as well.
Our next items is for the interior of your home. For years, I have roleplayed on Medieval-Fantasy regions, and one of my all-time favorite creators is [Tia]. The home model we selected is the Mistbrooke model, which I felt had a very elegant and elven feel to it. To highlight the elegance I used the [Tia] Kaoutar Lounge set. It comes with a sofa, chair, coffee table and 2 lamps. You also get a hud to change the wood and cushion colors for a variety of looks to go with your own color palette. The sofa and chair are both 6 LI each, the coffee table is 1 LI and each lamp is 2 LI. There are also 1 LI shadows you can use beneath the furniture if you want.
Drapes are from tarte. 3 LI each and the rugs are from DIGS - Malabar Rugs 1 LI each.
I want to thank every one that applied to be in our new Parade of Homes video, I wish we could have fit all the applicants in. So many great homes and locations!
If you missed the premiere of the video, please watch it here or watch it again. Thank you to Sceneris and Alex Zelin for your hard work in helping to put this video together.
Welcome to the Bellisseria Decorator's Find of the Week for August 8th, 2021. This week we have 2 fun and colorful items to share with you.
Our first item again is for the garden. One can never have too much beautiful color to stand out in your garden. The flowers this week are from Konoha, called Konoha - Dame's rocket (Hesperis River). They have some lovely flowers I found with a delicate but hearty nature in them. These flowers truly stand out in a garden and give a pop of color in a landscape of greenery, they come in a variety of colors to select from. The land impact varies in these clumps, ranging from 1 to 4 LI a piece. I find you don't need many when you mix them in with some 1 LI grass to make them feel full and lush. The top grouping with grasses is 4 LI and the bottom is 8 LI.
Our Next item is again from What Next. They recently released a summery fun, low LI Malibu Pool and Drink Cooler. I've often wanted some kind of pool in my Bellisseria yard but found myself running low on LI to put something nice out. This little pool has some amazing animations, cute props that attach or you can grab a drink from the little pool drink cooler. It also comes with a hud for the pool and drinks cooler, giving you 20 texture options to mix and match. Each pool holds 2 avatars, but with the low LI, you can easily put a few of these out for guests without a huge cost to your land impact to your home.
The pool is only 2 LI and the drink cooler is 1 LI.
Let's find out more about this beautiful home and its owner, shall we? Unable to contact the homeowner directly, a spokesperson was sent to help with the interview.
I pressed to get a little more information about this elusive homeowner, asking what they could tell me.
Clawdine Von Bellisseria, a werewolf, yes, it's under all that fur... but werewolves are notably unaware & uninterested in their non-full moon personae, so let's just feign ignorance of that in the article, mmkay? owns the pretty pink Tortuga stilt on the region of Littoral
This is a lovely home, so who resides here?
Just Clawdine, but her foxy friend, Pawlette Bellisserian is the one who convinced her to move to Bellisseria and Pawlette couch crashes there on the regular.
Why did they select this Linden Theme and Model?
The Tortuga is so open, sunny, and perfect for long weekends of chill, water recreation, vibes.
What decorating inspirations did they use to decorate their home?
Miami, baby! It's all about hot colors and cool Mojitos.
What is their favorite place and/or item in their home?
It's not every lupine who favors wearing Hawaiian shirts and has a thing for collecting flamingo decor, but Clawdine makes the most of living on the coast!
I asked if there was anything they'd like to share with our readers about their decorating enjoyment, and living in Bellisseria?
Moving to beautiful Bellisseria has given Clawdine creative outlets that keep her off the streets after midnight and that's probably better, from a public safety standpoint. Virtual Interior decorating is some wonderful self-care.
All homes selected and featured as Home of the Month in Bellisseria's Parade of Homes Review are selected from the Parade of Homes listings.
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