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Thread: GarVa's Galactic Home Show, Thursday March 25th
. Also featured is a very nice display of the necklaces ingame on manequins. 
LeBob wrote:
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is it bad form to re-submit our not-winning screenshotsnext week?
thanks
GarVa wrote:
That is very nicely lined up thanks to our new up/down commands
/agree i just got my first large house and ive done it up a treat due to the new commands!!!!! proper bo i tell thee
GarVa wrote:
Please note that I do not just pick "home show" contestants on my personal feelings of their appeal, but oninnovation, creativeness, and overcoming various technical challenges. Every Home Show entry I get would make a great post but I only have so many weeks a year
LeBob wrote:
GarVa, I made something for you...
Ripchi wrote:
It's not just hovering. The stand has legs. The lights make up the front legs, and add light to the display (very decorative), and the back is either built into the wall, or uses the house pillar as legs.
Oh I see, well personally I'd still just put mabe 1 chest in the middle area of it or maybe 2 at the edgesto make it seem a bit sturdier. After all glass isn't the strongest support
I wonder if Tiaga will pop in here to comment on it. The funny thing is I saw this in the original stages while wandering around their town looking for the zoo and just now realized it. The headwraps were in the wall for a good deal of time before the /move up command made doing things like that a breeze so that gives him some more marks in my book. Plus he made a great tool for urban planning so that just makes him a grand 'ol character in the game.
Sorry about using him and such if you're a woman
Kind of Tiaga to give me some of the credit for this, but whereas a couple of the original concepts may have been mine, the execution and glory of it is all his.
I'd decided on having a colour-chart on the wall early on, almost as soon as I moved into the large house to set up shop there. Of course, only a tiny fraction of the colours could be shown, and it was hard condensing the whole colour-range into the 35 most popular shades. However, it's been a good talking-point and has helped enormously in reducing those 'uhh, I want someting sort of green ...' moments.
It would have been great doing a further chart for leather shades, but that would definitely have taken up too much house space.
We're doing OK for space - just about. Having tried at one time to display nearly everything available, we're now concentrating on displays of a few outfits and special items, and I'm busy creating bracelet/ring and footwear displays for the Ladieswear side of the shop now that I'm back after an enforced sabbatical.
The headwraps have been there for quite awhile, yes. The shop was first put up around August/September-ish time frame, and the color display was first put up then. I can't claim that was my idea, credit for that goes to Severine, who's shop it is and who made the color samples, and Remillard, who put up the original display.
I only recently moved into the shop. It had been sitting unused for a bit, due to the owner having computer problems. (Finally resolved, yay!) So I asked her if she minded me selling out of there. She said I could do anything I wanted as long as I left the color chart alone.
That was about the time of the latest publish. I was looking up at the color chart and decided to give it a background. So I picked up a couple nameless bookcases and mounted them on the wall behind it. However, this made it apparent that the placements weren't very good, due to it having been done before the move up/down, and when the smallest movement was still quite a bit.
So I took the whole thing down, figured out exact numbers, and setup hotkeys to move up to the different rows, and across to the different columns. This looked much nicer. But then the fact that the bookcases stick out so far from the wall was very apparent. So I fashioned up a curtain and put it up.
The idea for the busts came from talking to Severine. She was mentioning how she would spend lots of time describing the necklaces she was selling. I figured there had to be a better way, so I tried displaying them various ways. In the end I settled on the shirts as busts.
I'm certainly not the first to make a curtain. In fact I'd just returned from making a curtain for someone else. However, I think people may be surprised by what I used across the top. I've seen wookiee waist wraps used in the past (I believe that's what the aforementioned fortune teller used) but I wanted a bright vibrant red, which isn't available to wookiee wear. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what I used.
GarVa wrote:I want something dark, but not to black.. but not too gray.. but a little bit blue... oh and itmust make me look cool...
You know GarVa, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were a tailor.
Message Edited by Tuanga on 03-30-2004 12:50 PM
Go over to the architect forum, Dvnce just started a few threads that want player input and ideas, some of yours have been proposed already but it's never a bad idea to add a voice to the choir. As for a move left or right, I normally move things will sitting on an ottoman to make sure it is a straight line, all I need to do is rotate that and I'm good so it wouldn't be a big deal.
Sesar wrote:
As thefollowers ofthe Home Show, I know you are big into decorating and as suchmay want certain things changed in the decorating system.The new up and down commands are nice, but they still limit the imagination of the mind. Wouldn't things be easier if there were a /move left or right command? What about a /tilt command? I've seen Krayt and Bol skulls in NPC houses where they're mounted on a wall and such....why shouldn't we be able to do that? What about being able to paint the walls? These are just a few ideas I have, please let me know what you think.
-Sesar