The Solarium Store at Fantasy Faire 2012 is a store that specialises in HUDS. The Store sits within the Shifting Sands sim.
There are two avatars behind Solarium; Rynn Verwood and Encaitaron Korobase. Rynn sent me some details on the store and provided me with this description:
Solarium is a Hud store that focuses on small, but important details:
- Creativity
- Simplicity
- Quality
- User Friendly Prices
The majority of the huds within the store are SpellFire and DCS2 enabled. Some huds, however also work with, SCM (Solarium Combat Meter) Chi meter and others similar to DCS, CCS for example, being mostly designed for Combat and Roleplay, our products have 3 main categories:
- MAGIC – Focused on bringing every sort of powers you can possibly associate with magic from elemental, staff weilding, wand to “abstract” Magic.
- SUPER HERO – Focused on bringing the powers of their favourite superheros or supervillians.
- WEAPONS – ranges from swords, staffs and wands to skurikens, bombs and claws.
Solarium also offers “customer’s choice” it means that the creators are allways avaiable for discussion about new and old products aswell as openly love to recieve Idea’s of possible new huds. Afterall, if it is the user that buys the product, they should allways have some say on the end result of a product.
However whilst wandering around the stores I cam across some Dragon Hatchlings, which are accompanied by a HUD, these guys didn’t attack me!
These HUDS aren’t just point and click with funky particle effects, they are used for roleplaying and often involve creatures, in the bloggers pack I was provided with there was an example inviolving a crystal wolf.
The HUD allows you to use a couple of modes, one is to use the Wolf itself whereby you can change the name, the colour of the eyes, summon the wolf which will then follow you around, using a chat channel you can roleplay as the wolf itself, clicking the wolf causes it to howl, you can even sit on the wolf and ride around on him.
The second mode involves you yourself becoming a crystal wolf, your armsand optionally your back will be covered in crystal and from there you can perform roleplaying combos.
Shifting Sands Solarium SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shifting%20Sands/109/126/36
Mainstore SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Whisper%20Cave/58/215/51