Laura Seabrook's Ramblings

A prim version of the Basement set I exported as an XML model from Second Life, which looked like this:



It took a little while to load but when every thing's on my own PC, that hardly matters. Textures can be substituted, replaced or re-done, but the original hull layout took some time to build, was functional and right for the Machinomic (the comic version on a Machinima) was making in SL. Of course I've also bought lots of custom stuff like furniture in SL that's non-transferable, but most of it HASN'T BEEN SEEN YET, so I can replace it at my leisure, and create a close approximation of the exterior that HAS been seen. :)

 This seems to me the sort of project I could get into on the weekends while finishing my Masters. I already know what I'm doing (because I've done it already) but in the long run this is a better way for me to go. I can still use SL when I need to, but with a home server with several sims and worlds I could easily leave things set up until I'm ready to work on them again, whereas in SL it either would get de-rezzed or I'd need to pay rent.

PLUS, nothing excites me more than learning a skill and applying it to effect, and setting all this up and using it would be exactly that.