Thursday, April 8, 2010

Final 2

Final 2A: Finding and talking to people in Second Life to figure out how to start building.

First, I went to the Ivory Towers where I could learn some basic building skills and was hoping to find someone who knew how to build. I found 2 persons there and I asked whether they know how to build or not. I got no response from Trystan O’Hare.

Wada Portland responded, but he was there to learn as I was.

I walked into the Ivory Towers. I spoke to Ivan Scrabblebat. He was there to learn as well.

Ivan Scrabblebat walked away from me. Then I decided to tour the Ivory Towers.

I found some helpful tutorials. In the picture, the tutorial shows how to adjust size of an object.


Final 2B: Start Building in Second Life!

Dania, Kimberly and I were assigned to a group to build a garage. We agreed to build a 2-door garage. Jose joined us soon after. We searched for a sandbox near where other classmates were building house. We then created an object on the sandbox to mark the piece of land as ours.

We started by constructing the basic frame of the garage. We had not agreed on the texture of the garage at that point. That is why the back wall was a different color then the side walls. We used the chat tool to communicate and agreed to use brick as the garage’s texture.

The four of us each got the chance to build one part – back, right and left walls and the roof. In above picture, we were trying to coordinate the height and width of our walls.

We put in the 2 doors as we had agreed. We decided to leave the left garage door opens.

We changed the color of the roof to make it darker.

I inspected the garage from far behind it to get a better view. I discovered that Jose had added an antenna at the peak of the garage. It looked cool to me!

Then, I flew further away and saw that our garage fitted in well with the big house that our other classmates had built.

Kimberly then had an idea to add a semi-rounded patch in front of the garage. That added completeness to the garage.

Although everything appeared from one angle to line up perfectly; that was not the case when we looked at the garage from other angles. Therefore, we spent a lot of time walking around the garage trying to line up various parts.

At the end, we had to delete what we had created.

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