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.

This week though I've been getting closure on loose ends. Apart from teh Polare comic and article, I've also needed to finish Part 9 of Return to Second Life. This is partly because then it can go on hiatus for a couple of months while I work on the graphic novels, but also because it uses ExitReality, a sort of virtual world avatar VRML thing that works on that PC, but not5 on the RecRoom PC (who knows why. I might never get the thing working again, so I needed to finish that part of the webcomic so I wouldn't need to access it any more. At pity if that's the case. VRML models look more like those models  made from books of punch-out paper shapes. They have a charm in their own right that the carved foam look of prims in Second Life don't. I'll actually miss seeing these.

But the graphic novels (especially for the confirmation) MUST come first. I'm done with it now and will format (after backing up) tomorrow. Will get back to drawing some Tales pages as well. :)

I found the controls very easy to use and the the environment flowed easily, and background sounds made a big difference as well. Not much you can do to customise your avatar just yet, and most activities look like they may be geared towards use of in-world currency.

It makes me think of Gaia Online but with better graphics.