Outside

The Outside tab holds what lies outside the building: the planters by the street doors, and the photographs a visitor sees beyond the doors and through the windows.

Planters by the Doors

Left planter and Right planter put a planter outside the doors on each side, left and right as seen from the street. Each can be None, Bottle palm planter (a dark grey box with a bottle palm, a fern, and grass, about 1.9 m tall), or Tall palm planter (a low box with a 3.6 m palm, bamboo, and grass). Either may go on either side. They stand clear of the doorway and far enough out that no leaf touches the building, and they move with the doors. They need street doors to stand beside: until the Gallery has an entrance, chosen on the Space tab, they wait, and the tab says so.

Outside Views

What visitors see beyond the street doors and through your windows is yours to choose, with a photograph for each direction: View North wall, View East wall, View South wall, and View West wall. Choose… uploads a JPEG, PNG, or WebP file of up to 24 MB. Use the site’s goes back to the view shown when you have not chosen one.

The bottom edge of your photograph becomes the horizon, so crop it to begin where the land should meet the paving. A wide photograph works best, and distant subjects, such as hills or a skyline, look far more natural than anything close to the camera. The view really stands out beyond the paving, so it shifts as a visitor walks past a window or crouches. Each photograph is wrapped round a dome standing beyond its wall, from one side to the other and up over the top, so a window shows only its own wall’s view, however far to the side a visitor looks out of a bay window.

From the street, visitors face the building. They see the view for the wall with the doors as they walk out through them, and only that view as they turn round in the street. Looking in through the building’s glass front, they also see the view through any window in the wall opposite the doors, already there as they walk in. The views to either side are seen from inside, through their windows. Your views are loaded only when the Gallery has doors or a window. Outside views count toward your storage, and need your agreement to the Content Agreement, as a loading image does.