Week 9 - Machinima Filming

This morning second life was finally permited on four of the college library computers. I had previously been on one computer for one of the other students only. I really would have made a lot of difference had this facility been available earlier in the course.

I have been looking at scripting in second life and have followed in world tutorials to make a sword that thrusts when I walk forward and a helmit that I can comunicate with. The helmit doesn't look very good but I can hide it so that it is not visible. The helmit will inform me if other avators come within 30m. The sheild tells me if it has come into contact with anything. Its not that cleaver so if I walk into something it informs me.

Scripting in second life is quite a bit like Java, using a similar format with paired braces { }

Now I need to learn how to use scripting to make oil pour out of the oil can for the Machinima

This Roman equipment was achieved using the scripting tutorial at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kings%20Bishop/183/205/113

Week 8 - Create groups for machinima assignment.

We have devided into groups, I am paired with Tina.

We have decided to film a race for our machinima project. The music is yet to be decided as all uncopyrighted music sources have been barred by the systems administrator at the college. We have agreed an outline storey for out project. The jist is that our aviators will race against each other using vehicals in second life. My aviator will try to cheet by thowing nails infront of the other, she will turn round to watch the effect of her action and crash. Tina's aviator will win a gold cup.

I don't want to fill this website with moans and groans but I do think it is worth a mention that I only recieved clearance to access second life from the college computer adminsitrator for the final 1/2 hour of the session. So really I had to sit doing nothing waiting for them to sort it out for me. I do feel disadvantaged by this.

Week 7 - Building and structural content

This I found the hardest task to date. I had no end of problems with this. Somehow I got traped in an area and could not move around to work on my house. I got repeated messages to say that objects couldn't be inserted because the parcel was full. I asked other aviators but none of them seemed to recieve that message.

I had random objects apearning in my house as it was created and I found texturning an absolute nightmare. No matter what I did, I could only apply a texture to the whole prim and not to one side only.

However, with percerverance I did manage to achieve the following, incidently the little box is nothing to do with me and I can't delete it. I just had to work around these random shapes;

Week 6 3-D Drawing

This week we were required to create some 3D images in second life. I created the chess piece inserted bellow.

I created the chess piece following a tutoral guide. The piece comprises of different shapes which were then linked together, given colour and texture. I took a snapshot of the completed piece, still in the Anglian Ruskin sandbox. However, I din't link all of the objects correctly so that later when I tried to retrieve the piece one of the crosses from the top was missing.

So I created another chess piece, this time I gave it a different texture (waterfall ) and added two base colours yellow and grey.

Chess piece mark 2

Week 5 - Second Life

This week we were instructed to join second life.

We were required to read all the community guidelines especially section 2 and 4 propr to joining. This in itself was no light bedtime reading!!!

My second life I D details were emailed to my tutor, then I spent quite a while on Orientation Island and with the second life tutorial.

I was not able to join the Anglia Ruskin Computing group and I have not recieved an invertation from my tutor to join a Huntingdonshire Regional College Group. I have however visited Anglia Ruskin Island.


I have visited the following shop to buy some free clothing:

The SURL of the site I found for free clothing, you could also obtain shoes, hair jewellry etc.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gallii/129/89/33

I found this area which distributed free textures;
This site contains all sort of free stuff including Darth Vadar, clothes, costumes and gestures

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sooseunhwa/33/95/59










This is a huge shopping mall of stuff, really it contains so many things that I couldn't possibly list them all here. I obtained loads of free items from;

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orellian/245/18/24



including the torch shown below;