My Summer Home

Welcome to my summer home, complete with the large landscape, I hope you enjoy your visit. There are 4 outside standing spots, 3 inside standing spots on the first floor and 2 standing spots on the second floor and basement. The roof has one standing spot on top. This scene contains over 1000 furniture nodes, the house has furniture nodes for the ceiling, walls and floors of each level as well as furniture nodes on the roof, The surrounding landscape has furniture nodes on top the hill, down the hill side and along the big grassy plane so that you can setup some outside scene off in the distance if you wish.

After the house party on the products dayview, I added several new features to the house, you can now hide the outside walls and windows and bring them back :D great for doing inside snapshots. The following keywords trigger the actions:

walloff - Hides the outside walls.
wallon - turn the outside wall back on.
winoff - Hides the windows.
winon - turns the windows back on.

(note: log not included)

Warning - Furniture can be hard to place and I suggest using birds eye view for placing furniture inside the house.

I would like to extend a special thanks to the following people for there support and suggestions during the construction of my summer home:

LadyFrog, KrazyKat, Kim, WolfSong, DeviousDream, Invisigoth and Keef.

Developers And Deriving:

By deriving this product you understand the IMVU TOS and Copyright laws. If you derive from this product please mark your product as non derivable, Thank you.

This is a very complex scene for deriving, so please take a look at all the information below before deriving the product to see what your actually getting yourself into. To completely change the look of the scene it will take a lot of time and devotion, though, as I do, You may find the time well spent. Some suggested texture map sizes have been listed below the texture layout with some tips to keep the image files size down. Please Note - You will need a basic understanding on ambient light and Fog settings in the previewer to be able to change all concepts of this scene. Happy Developing!

Scene Texture Layout

This scene has a lot of materials to it, below is a list showing what each texture is for. Normal textures are tiled textures, ones containing links have links to templates for those specific parts. Ones shown in white have transparency mapping. Happy Texturing!

Porch Top

P0M0	Outside floor
P0M1	Roof Trim
P0M2	Outside Wall
P0M3	Roof Tile
P0M4	Railing Top
P0M5	Railing Bottom
P0M6	Deck Wood

Porch Bottom

P1M0	Lattice
P1M1	Deck Floor
P1M2	Stairs

World Dome

P2M0	Ground
P2M1	Horizon Line
P2M2	Star Dome
P2M3	High Clouds
P2M4	Low Clouds

House Doors

P3M0	Door
P3M1	Door Frame

Inside Walls

P4M0	Foundation & Basement Walls
P4M1	Back Stairs
P4M2	Basement Floor
P4M3	Second Floor Floor
P4M4	First Floor Floor
P4M5	Basement Ceiling
P4M6	First Floor Ceiling
P4M7	Second Floor Ceiling
P4M8	Second Floor Walls
P4M9	First Floor Walls

Outside Walls

P5M0	Outside Wall

Roof

P6M0	Roof Trim
P6M1	Chimney
P6M2	Roof Slate

House Windows

P7M0	Big Window Frame
P7M1	Small Window Frame
P7M2	Big Window
P7M3	Small Window

House Stairs

P8M0	Stairs
P8M1	Stair Walls

texture Recommendations:

Some textures are off sized, like the horizon sky line and the Star map, so here are some texture scale recommendations for them: horizon - 128h x 256w, stars - 256h x 128w, clouds - 512x512, ground - 512x512, door - 230h x 100w, walls - 256x256

Keeping Texture Sizes Small:

I know this is a issue for some people especially when saving texture maps at 512x512 scale. So here are a few tips for those of you who have Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Corel Paint Shop Pro, or Adobe Photoshop (any version). When saving texture maps you should always save them as Jpegs, Gifs only allow for 256 colors, and PNG's and BMP's are extremely large in file size.

Now some of you while saving the files as JPegs have probably noticed some quality loss I'm sure, this is due to the compression settings. In Jasc Paint Shop Pro & Corel Pain Shop Pro, you will want to set the quality settings to 80%-85%, I generally save with 85% quality. Adobe users will want to set the compression to 20%-15% compression when saving.

Saving the files with with these compression / quality settings will help you keep the file size extremely low while keeping high quality to the image. Just as a simple test for yourself, save one as a jpeg, Bitmap, PNG, and Gif, then compare the image quality Verse the file size and you will a large difference in quality and file size.