About the Flights of Fancy Building

The FoF store building was created by Cheyenne Palisades and Exuberance Lafleur. It was Cheyenne’s first large structure size, and Exuberance’s second.

Chey started the build by making the walls and floors, using a technique of rotation she learned at the Ivory House of Prim. She cut the windows and made the inset areas, then duplicated the structure to form a second floor. When she cut a hole in the top floor, Exuberance made the beautiful glass circular rail in the center of the building.

Exuberance added the steampunk pipes and canopy, connecting them with a full perm flywheel Cheyenne had stashed away in her inventory. Cheyenne added smoke and pink particles and big propellers, and then set the props and flywheels in motion, and a store was born.

The pink marble of the floor is Organic 138, which Cheyenne made seamless with the Texture Maker program (http://www.texturemaker.com/). The stucco is a (very nice) free texture (or maybe Cheyenne bought it in one of her shopping manias). The glass in the windows is another free organic texture.

At Exuberance’s suggestion, Cheyenne added a texture rotation program to the inside of the 10 meter sphere at the top of the store and put in an assortment of panoramic pictures. Visitors can Sit on the Scenic Overlook ball on the bottom floor to be instantly transported to the middle of the sphere. Textures change every 40 seconds, or upon touch. Rotation is random, with repeats.

After an Exuberance-suggested resizing of the walls, the insets proved to be the perfect size to hold four-panel hippoTech vendors. Most of FoF’s wares are in the vendors, but a few, like Cheyenne’s Leaky Water Tower, are sold from signs.
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With vendors in place, it was just a question of décor and amenities. Chey made signs, and Chey and Exuberance’s Second Life brother and friend Peter Stindberg gave them his long-distance teleport script, which provides instant jumps between floors and between the store and the gardens below. Peter’s teleporter will soon be for sale at FoF!

And there you have it—the making of a one-of-a-kind, free-flying store with room enough to hold a wide variety of top-quality merchandise.

FoF may not remain unique, however. Anyone can have their own FoF, to use for any purpose they want. Permissions are Copy/Mod. The FoF building is for sale for $1295L, just as you see it. Until it appears in the vendors, you can IM Cheyenne Palisades.

(Included: Building, pipes, propellers, smoke, panoramic view. Not included: Signage, vendors, furniture. Cheyenne will be happy to set up Peter’s teleporters for you when your building is in place; just IM her).