Corel Print House

Posted on November 2, 2008 in Corel Print House (Default)

Me dancing solo at the Indie Stage at SecondFest

This week I spent some time doing all the things that everyone else is doing. This involved:

• Going to Secondfest. This kind of thing is outside my RL experiences but I liked the kind of music there which seemed entirely appropriate to the dance moves provided and the general out of body experience of SL. Nice to be able to put an avatar to some of the names I've read about elsewhere. Somehow I wasn't expecting thousands of people and I wasn't disappointed but there were enough to introduce some trippy lag. Loved the light show at the main stage but failed signally to get any photos apart from this one from the Indie stage.
• Gawping at the Sistine Chapel recreated on Vassar Island. I've never been there in RL but was pleasantly surprised by the rendering in SL given the way that others have lauded Microsoft's Photosynth. It clearly is a jewel and I'm sure it will attract a lot of visitors to Vassar Island who would never get a chance to experience the real thing. The development raised all sorts of issues on the SLED list (IP, appropriate use) which reminds me that I'd really like an RSS feed for the SLED list as there were other good points about sustainable funding, group development and leadership. Nice to see that Vassar had a nice mix of outdoor spaces as well as a surprisingly sombre castle for functions.

I also went to a few smaller places such as Shimmer Island (which appears to be a beach house used by Bromley College [which has a presence in SL based largely around LSL]). Nice to see what you can do with a small space.

The ANGEL Learning Group had an outing to Terra Incognita (active learning in SL) and Starry Night (van Gogh), both places I'll try to get to given that I couldn't make their visit.

I went mad and bought a few gadgets to further burden my freebie-deluged inventory. I should really document these.

Everyone seems to be raving about Mystitool and I have found it useful if not entirely indispensable (yet). I do seem to be encountering a lot of rezzes of the "table with spare chair", even on the largely custom Genome Island.

I also bought a building tool, Skidz Primz, that gives the builder a (limited) range of intelligent prims that can interact "intelligently" with other prims outside of build mode. I'm sure I'm under-utilising this so I need to revisit the video on esnips.

Played with sloog.org as a landmarking site (as blogged previously). Found a possible complement/alternative in deliHUD (via Vint Falken's excellent SL bookmarks on deli).

Noted with restricted enthusiasm the availability of the FindAmass ring-based interface to Wikipedia, Google Def, etc.

Best places found thus far for freebie tools are:

• School Store
• ICT Library on Info Island (use the map at the orientation point to teleport)
  

Still looking for a message board. There's a lot of choice: one on SLExchange, one by PixelTrix (lots of good office stuff there, including calendars), and one at Caletta.

Having given my RSS/SL talk on Tuesday I had a chance to get on with my own building which has extended to rezzing inventory, basic particle system applications and dialog use. This is largely on the back of modding scripts in the LSL wiki Examples and Script Library. I haven't been to any of the SL tutorials yet -- I guess I'm trying to see how far I can get before I get stuck. I'm certainly having problems with the physics and coordinate systems. I'm beginning to appreciate the importance of having a fairly detailed plan at the outset as inter-dependencies can emerge that can be annoying to retrofit.

[el-shella] Feedback on the MastEuromed programme

Pages: Home 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12