Blog # 5

Ah the last blog of the quarter, and what we have done in second life. I liked second life once we got down to it. I think we need to be more familiar on what goes on in second life first then we can start with part of the class. My thinking is lets kinda dive into to, I guess the sink or swim idea comes into play here. At first I must admit I was a bit lost in setting up all the info and the user interface in the class, but once that got done it was all gravy from there. As i logged on more the better it got, the only thing is I think we need some places to go other than the UC Island and I hated to search the web for a place to go because some were weird, very very weird and I will leave it at that. The best thing about second life is the ability to roam where you want when you want to. Their are some cool places on-line ie I went to Rome, like 5 BC Rome! I mean how cool is that? The list for this goes on and on. I didn’t like how long it took to navigate to a place or try to find it it if didn’t you didn’t type in the place just right, it’s like C++ which I hated. I did like the note cards but I wish they would come out with a better interface with that, with a game it gets a bit boring reading those, particularlly when it is long. I think I will still use it when I get out if for anything a boredom buster  =)

Blog # 4

Our community partner was the Disabled American Veterans (DAV for short) looked like an average warehouse building. To be honest I was expecting the building to have a ton of war items in it but that is not their main focus there however, there was a small museum with a few personal items along with donated Harley Davidson models. When we first walked in you are greeted by the sectary who was very busy person, Then we moved to an area where they update membership information along with postage, this is crucial because most of their funds about 80% come from donations. We then went to the mail room and spent the next 30 minutes learning the process of the mail room how things get mailed and such, to whom and why. After all that we went into their meeting room and talked about what they might went in the island, although Matt didn’t offer a lot to work with. He basically told us to do what we thought would be great and left it at that. The only thing was I wish we could have gone earlier in the quarter to see what went on in a daily basis and who we were working for so to speak.

Blog # 4 pic for SL

This is a picture for me in the second life of the DAV, however I am unable to navagate most of the island or edit anything. Hopefully this can change.
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Our land

Just showing our land.
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Picture

A picture of the board that we were given to mess around with.
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Update to blog # 3

Here is something I have been working on, it’s a work in progress but I figured it would go well with the wall that is on going with the DAV. It has been fun to work togeather in sl with my team as it’s easy to commmunicate by typing. The blod hud so far once it has been setup right has been nice to work around with. It’s pretty easy to take a snap shot and post it on up. The only thing so far is that I wish people were a bit more deticated, but what are you going to do?
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Barricade

Someone who looks like Barricade from Transformers very nice!
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Bog # @

Here I am at a part that teaches you how to build at the tower. I am making the back end of the chair right now. So far so good…..
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Chair

This is my first table, and I must say it’s not too shabby. It took about 5 minutes to create and let me tell you the crtl + D is handy and then you can lock everything with crtl + L so it’s now all one. Only thing is to get everything lined up, but it jus takes time =p
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Blog assignment #2

Ah here we are building things in a vitrual world. I must say things have been a bit tough as you can most likely see by the many postings of my tests , it’s kinda funny. I did the Ivory Tower walkthrough and thought it was pretty good, but myself not being the best reader in the world I found the best thing to be the walkthrough that is on youtube. I still think in some parts it moves way to quick. I would really love to crate a very slow moving walkthrough one of these days but that will not be for a while.

There are many ways to edit, create, rotate and move your prims aka priminitive, these are the “building blocks that shape second life. There is great news any one of us can create them so that makes it nice. Now down to the basics you can move an object by holding down the different color arrows and moving them with the dirrection it says to. You can also rotate any object that you create by holding down the (control) button. There are different colors for different dirrections, just give it a shot and you will learn.

The biggest thing by far is the ability to change the size and duplicate your blocks. To change the size of it all all you have to do is hold crtl+shift and then there are different color blocks that appear (notice a trend yet on this? I hope so, those colors are so very important they are dirrections!) and you can change the thickness, long or short it is. You can also duplicate you block by hold crtl+ d that way if you want to make another block (such as stairs) and don’t want to do it all over again that’s a great way.

You can also link these blocks by by hitting crtl + L and you can to the above mentioned by hitting crtl+D and really start creating your little block of heaven so to speak.

These are just some of the basic functions to do. I will post a bit more on this later as I am still trying to figure out everything. I feel a lot better now that my blodhud is working. It took a while and all it was is a button not clicked, but I guess that’s code for you. Once you get all of these setup it’s very easy to work with.

I will put more in due time but for now I will take what I know and try to go a bit further.

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