New Rustica Release - The Forever House

The Forever House.

I called it that because it took me that long to finish - time spent in attaining a level of detail beyond any of my previous efforts, while reducing the total prim count from over 600 in the initial design down to the finished 280.

While simpler in look and layout than the others, the complexity of the post & beam vernacular style and design of the individual parts places this house firmly as the most difficult of my designs to complete. It is, in many ways, the summation of what I have learned in my time as a home builder.

The Forever House has been designed to fit between the existing range of LagNmoor Village homes in size and prim count, larger than the Crooked House and Seaside Cottage but not as big as the Carriageway House. I have also listened to the many requests and implemented a variety of changes for this and future houses in the LagNmoor Village collection, such as a reduction in scripts, less prims, open floorplan and a completely new rezzer system.

The Forever House contains a variety of sculpted primitives created specifically for this house. The focus on detail and craftsmanship includes:

• Post and beam/plaster construction over stone foundation, beamed ceiling
• Vented gable roof and vented front and rear dormers
• Center split, leaded glass doors and windows with diamond mullions and functional hardware (the doors all open from the right side, unless you are on the other side of them, in which case they open from the left.)
• Sculpted House Djinn to adjust window textures and transparency
• Split barn-style Dutch door with working hardware
• Front Corner Lamp (touch to turn on or off)
• Two working stone fireplaces with a functional chimney and tiled hearths. (click hearth tile to turn on or off the chimney smoke)
• Crown/Shoe moulding
• Qoined corner facades inside and out
• Crenellated machicolations on the tower, varanda and patio
• 1-off and baked texture work throughout
• Curved pocket doors in the stairwell tower at each level
• Front veranda, back patio off the master suite
• 3rd floor tower patio with conical roof for open-air use. (touch to turn on or off)

I wanted to document the Rune sim for posterity, and Mr. Stretch Mayo did an amazing piece of work...a real tribute to the fun we had there. Thank you Stretch! check this out:

(look in 720HD if you can)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEbEm0cTz1k








A Very Special Thank You To All The Wonderful Photographers and especially Feline Slade and Annaliusa Bertolucci for their photos in this blog... Go Watch The Video From Stretch Mayo!!

*~*PICTURES OF RUNE BEFORE IT IS GONE*~*

Post any and all pictures you have taken of RUNE and the Alpine Death Race On The Rustica Flickr Group.... In Memoriam As A Lasting Tribute To The Beauty Created Here By Maxwell Graf... The Sim has been sold and will be no more VERY VERY SOON! Sunday March 7th 2010 Is The Last Day to Shoot A Bear Or Ride Throught The Alpine Death Race...
Please Share Your Fun Times, Good Memories, Special Moments, Bear Hunts And Awesome Photos...with us

*~*Love To You All*~*

Featured Artist Of The Week At Twisted Thorn Textures

Come See Maxwell Graf At Twisted Thorn Textures. Maxwell Is The Featured Artist Of The Week At Twisted Thorn. Nighty Goodspeed And Elenora Wisent Have An Amazing Display Of Beautiful Textures and Furnishings For Your Enjoyment. Come To Twisted Thorn, Where Textures Are An Art. This Week Catch Maxwell Graf In House 24/7 At Twisted Thorn. If He Is Sleeping When You Pop In, Smile and Wave. Meet Maxwell Graf In The Twisted Thorn Display For Espresso Each Morning At 10 SLT.

See The Beauty That Is Maxwell Graf, Rustica Furnishings, LagNmoor Villages, And Rune All This Week At Twisted Thorn Textures

RUSTICA PINE FOREST COLLECTION

Maxwell Graf Ventures From RUNE To XStreet SL Marketplace!

To View All The Rustica Items Available On XStreetSL Click The Title Of This Blog!

Maxwell Graf Has Turned The MarketPlace Into A Showcase For Some Of His Beautiful Landscape Items That He Used To Create RUNE, His Newest Sim! The Pine Tree Forest Collection, The LIGHT Pine Tree Forest Pack, The DARK Pine Tree Forest Pack, The DEAD Pine Tree Forest Pack, The BURNED Pine Tree Forest Pack, The Grass / Underbrush Pack, The WEEPING Pine Tree Forest Pack, The Deadfalls/Stumps Pine Tree Forest Pack And The Landscaping Rocks, 3 Rock Set. These Are The Wonderful Sculpted Rocks And Stones That Maxwell Created And Has Utilized On Rustica, LagNmoor And RUNE.

Max Says: "TREES! I wanted a forest, to blanket the land with them, but the low-prim/alpha texture trees out there were just not working, and the sculpted ones out there, though gorgeous to look at, often had more prims than I could use. As a result, i present this alternative to those who, like me, have had a desire to do more with less. These are sculpted, but very low prim."
The items in the sets are available in other textures and as a total collection here at RUNE and on Xstreet SL.

NEW RELEASE: The Well of Sorrows

Make a wish, cast in your dreams, pour out your heart to the abyss! The Well of Sorrows is equipped with 5 menu-driven poses, each carefully placed (but adjustable to suit your needs). You and 4 of your most depressed friends can gather at the old wishing well and contemplate whos going in first; Each can click after sitting and choose from the remaining poses available, or change to any available pose at any time.

PRIM COUNT: Well = 15, Vines = 14, Wind Vines = 8 x 2, Shadows = 13
PRIM USAGE TOTAL: 15 for well, 58 if all elements used

YOU CAN VIEW AND PURCHASE THIS ITEM ON THE LAGNMOOR SIM HERE:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/LagNmoor/218/37/25


This well features:

• 2 different copies of the well: SOLID CORE - for surface mounting and HOLLOW - for use as an actual well, with a hollow section underneath to place below water level.

• a linked set of vines which are not linked to the main body of the well, so that you may remove them once rezzed to save on prim count. When you initially rez the well, the vines will be there. DO NOT DELETE THEM, take them back into your inventory so you can use them again.


• 2 different sets of shadows for using within the wells. When placed down inside the rim of the well, it will gradually darken the view to black, giving a nice spooky appearance. :o

• 5 different poses which operate for up to 5 avatars: (R-click and sit on the well. Then, L-click on the well. A menu will appear which will allow you to see the other avatars sitting, and allow you to choose from any of the remaining positions.)

• a dripping sound which will play every so often down inside the well.

• 2 different wind vines to place on the ground. They produce two different creepy wind sounds. place them near the well to complete the look.


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If you have any questions or comments please contact: Lyyric Fei, our business manager.

Sincerely, Maxwell Graf, owner and designer
Rustica Home Furnishings©

When science and technology fail, art survives. Eat the rich. :P

A NEW RELEASE!!!

The Rustica Pine Forest Collection of Trees and Underbrush by Maxwell Graf



YOU CAN VIEW AND PURCHASE THIS COLLECTION IN A SIM-SIZED BUILD @ RUNE

http://slurl.com/secondlife/RUNE/150/219/48

or on both the Rustica and LagNmoor sims, from vendors located there.
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Trees are always a problem with me. I'm picky as hell about them. I love the sculpted ones that i find, but they are generally too prim-heavy to use more than a limited number of them.



I wanted a forest, to blanket the land with them, but the low prim alpha texture trees out there were just not for me. As a result, i present this alternative to those who, like me, have had a desire to do more with less. These are sculpted, but very low prim.



This collection features:

• 5 different sculpted tree types (Light, Dark, Dead, Burned and Weeping) in various sizes.
• 3 sculpted tree stumps
• 2 deadfall trees
• 5 different sculpted underbrush types (leafy, fluffy grass, thin grass, ferns, stems/twigs)

The sculpted primitives and most of the textures in these items are original works, having been hand painted without the use of photographic inclusion. Please respect the effort involved in the making of these items and use them only in the manner described in this agreement. Theft is killing the content of SL, not just the businesses of those who work hard to make it.

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If you have any questions or comments please contact: Lyyric Fei, our business manager.

Sincerely, Maxwell Graf, owner and designer
Rustica Home Furnishings©

copyright©2009 Rustica and Maxwell Graf, all rights reserved.

When science and technology fail, art survives. Eat the rich. :P