Hello again! This is Asif Gausman informing you on the current developments of our villa project. Our previous project, the Domino Build, was a success. However, this project will definitely put our Second Life skills to the test. In case you are confused, our current project is to build a replica of our old school campus, a villa, in Second Life. It will display a variety if media and technology resources, artwork produced by students in our school and will become our ‘headquarters’ to do further work exploring the SL medium.
So far we have achieved:
- Determining the basic shape of our building (3:4 aspect ratio)
- Determining the interior layout of our building
- Producing the blueprints of the villa
- Determining the features that this building will have
- Determining the objects/scripts we could use for these features
- Dividing the villa into portions and assigning them to team members
We have begun gathering the supplies needed to build this villa, such as textures, basic foundations, and objects. We have also been collecting objects that might help us such as doors, windows, and furniture.
The next steps in our project are:
- Obtaining the land (in the process)
- Determining the dimensions of each room
- Building a framework of the villa
- Revising our blueprint to fit our needs
To show you the progress of our idea (and to give you an idea of our progress :P), a blueprint of the villa when we initially started to design the villa is shown Below. Below that is a blueprint that we cleaned up and modified with the aid of the memories of the people who worked in the villa.
6 comments:
I think that our team is skilled enough to handle this project. The domino build was relatively simple, it was the coordination that took the time. Now that we've mastered that, the villa shouldn't be too difficult to make.
See you tomorrow!
It looks really fun because you can fly and walk under water and you can be any person in the world. It looks really cool.
2JJ H
Good work on cleaning up the diagrams of the original villa campus. This is the ground floor. Do you have a clean layout of the upper floor?
The next step is to determine how much the group wants to vary from the original villa floor plan to suit our virtual world needs while still retaining some of the original character.
Next class, we will work on the dimensions, select prims and suggest modding techniques. Let's use the Moodle course to prepare for that. We need a prim plan before we begin construction.
Making the villa shouldnt be that hard. I mean we are all relatively skilled enough to handle a project like this. Who would ever thought that a hand full of kids would help actually build a school in virtual reality? Cant wait to get started.
Perhaps some suggestions would be in order. We all have our own ideas for the best way to make the villa plus other ideas to make it easier to navigate and such. My own is to make the villa big since it gets annoying having to navigate in cramped quarters and you have to zoom in a whole lot which limits your view.
It looks fun because you can buld stuff and walk, run and fly.
2JJ B
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