Lame SL project update comic 2.
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Did quite a bit in class on Tuesday this week in SL. I took a bunch of screenshots but instead of posting them individually I made a really lame comic out of them.
We finally came up with a name for our project - “Greentastic” (I love that name) and our group is called “Team Green.” Then we all distributed “tree suits” amongst ourselves and tried them on. I think it looks best when I’m also wearing my robot suit. Treebot, go!
Other work was focused on the “Dumpster Dive” project, tweaking small flaws and generally trying to finish things up. It’s nearly complete, just a few things left to finish (mainly signage and scripting issues).
So, my part of the class project to build an area about “being green in second life” is to create a “dumpster dive” area. The concept for the area is to build a giant dumpster in which items can be abandoned, picked up, swapped, sold, etc. There is so much free junk available in the game that it’s pretty easy to accumulate quite a bit of stuff. This is the kind of stuff I’m stocking up on and dropping in the dumpster. I really would like to find a lot of it so it’s really like “digging” around in junk, like a real dumpster.
Here’s the dumpster from the outside. I’m still working on the entrance, trying to make it look more like a dumpster stuffed with junk. This is harder to do than it would seem.
This is the entrance. You drop in through a small hole in the top, and fly out the same way when you’re done visiting.
Inside the dumpster there are a few bins to sort junk into. It neatens the space up slightly to allow avatars to move around. I had thought about just leaving junk scattered everywhere, but sometimes it’s difficult to move an avatar around an area and it made more sense to leave some more open space for walking. I might also try and categorize or color code the bins in some way so that visitors can sort the junk. Maybe they’ll just be color-coded with no other implication about their purpose just to see how people pick them up and use them without much instruction. I’ll see how it goes.
People have left stuff in my bins! I’m not sure what it is, but I know it’s not anything I put there. That is cool and helpful.
I went out in search of more random junk to leave in the bins, and ended up on Freebie Island. So laggy! My feet were going a mile a minute but I was barely moving an inch. I picked up a few things, though.
More junk in the bins. Bigger items make it look more full, but I want to pick up more small objects too, just to fill it out.
I also picked up a robot outfit, which somehow seemed fitting. Maybe I can wear it to the event once the whole project is put together or something. “Junk robot.” It seemed fitting, somehow.
There are a few other items I want to add to the Dumpster Dive:
* Figure out scripting to give instructions or information when entering.
* Determine how junk should be sorted or what kind of instructions are given - some instructions, detailed instructions, no instructions? What will people do with it on their own?
* More signage.
* Find more junk!
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