My trips in Second LIfe

I had quite fun visiting different locations throughout Second Life.  I took a vacation to Rio and visited a haunted house.  Yup, my avatar had a fun weekend!


 1. Rio

The first place that I visited was RIO!  I needed a vacation.  As soon as I teleported to the location, a blast of carribean music hit me.  The song was fast paced and relaxing which really made me feel that I was on a beach in Rio.  There were a few people that would walk over and just stare without saying anything.  And there was one person who did come over to me and make some small talk.  The location is BEAUTIFUL! There is a great amount of detail that was put into this location.  I had to bookmark this place to retreat to.

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Saari/158/129/24

2. Rackingham State Hospital, Somnolenta Sea, Somnolenta Sea - General

 I wanted to check out this location because it's the one place in Second Life that resembles one of my favorite video games, Silent Hill.  This place is said to be haunted. The actual location on the outside is a bit creepy with random floating books and bats flying everywhere. The stage is set to nighttime which ads to the haunted theme.  As I entered the building, the first floor was the haunted house. I explored around a bit and wanted to check out the other areas. The doors open just by touching them which is a really neat effect. There is a working elevator! On the second floor, it's a reception area.  I ran into a few of the "nurses" of Silent Hill.  They were modeled really well. Next I checked the upper areas which were the living quarters that contained the Female and Male wards.  Scattered throughout the halls were wheelchairs, hospital beds and even some really creepy stuff. Including the ghost! 

SLURL; http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Somnolenta%20Sea/152/104/40

Avatar Creation

Creating your avatar can be extremely time consuming, but also pretty fun.  When you first start out in Second Life you are able to select premade models of people, animals and even robots.  I searched through the prebuilds until I found an avatar that looks somewhat similar to me to start out with.  When I look at now and from when I started out, I’ve made quite a few changes.  First of all, I changed some features of my face and even tried out a new hair color.  The coolest thing about Second Life is that the possibilities are endless!  I can, and have, spent hours shopping for clothing online and in different SL worlds.  I like searching around for free stuff because, well it’s free.  Although when I find something that I really want, I just add it to my wish list and debate on if I would like to buy this now or wait a little bit.  One thing I’ve been searching for is a good skin.  I’m wearing one now which is a demo.   

Demo skins are nice because you can try them on to see what they look like, but you really can’t wear them.  This skin in particular has the words Lulu’s Demo~ written all down the sides of my arms and around my neck and shoulders.  It’s okay for now so that I can just test out the skin.  I have found that a lot of free clothes actually look pretty great. The only problem is that once you go on a shopping spree your inventory is going to fill up with tons items that you bought.  Lots of items are variations such as different colors or lengths.  The amazing thing about being able to customize your avatar is that there are so many people out there that create these cool customizations for us to wear.  When I go shopping (or window browsing) I’m usually amazed at the skill that other users have at creating these objects!

Your avatar can even look just like Dexter!

Primhead Costume

 

This is my avatar wearing a prim head!

Items: Primhead Outfit

Shirt that I made (new)
Black Pants
Female Future Punk Socks
Vest (new)
My Gloves (new)
Symmetry - Karley - Skirt Glitchpants
Female Future Punk Alpha ( wear with boots! )
Female Future Punk Boots Left
Female Future Punk Boots Right
Female Future Punk Hair
Object
VA Creations - Straight Jeans - Belt 1
Female Future Punk Shape (new)
Female Party Skin
Clubgoer Female Hair
Eyes (Roast Brown)

 

Introducing... the Game Master!

The Game Master is my first creation and it a generic version of the Gameboy color.  I created the skin for the Game Master in Photoshop. It was my first time using the program and I found it very fun and easy to use for a beginner like myself.  The self-made texture wraps around the full object. The device is created from a prim block.  It attatches to your hand just like you're really holding it. The top button is a linked circular object. Also, the Game Master is scripted.  If someone would like a copy of the Game Master, all they would have to do would be to type out "Game Master" into the chat while mine is present, and they will receive their own in their inventory.

Second Life Interface

The SL interface is a bit confusing.  Now that I've had time to play around and experiment with different stuff, I'm aware of where objects are and menus that I need.  Building was definitely confusing as the beginning.  There are a lot of options to select from and you're able to customize pretty much any object that you'd like to. Communicating with people is very simple, all you have to do is select the Chat tab and you can speak to anyone within the area. The windows are stackable and don't take up too much room. The world tab allows you to do many things such as change the scene to nighttime, take a snapshot or even see where you are located in the world map.  The search tab allows you to search for different characters or even explore a new area.  I am now beginning to become familiar with doing things and locating what I need to since I've spent more time exploring.

My Snapshot

KrixStar

1st Experience in Second Life

Second life is an interesting world.  This is officially my first time using Second Life and sucessufully being able to load everything.  I had tried SL before on my home computer and since it's lacking RAM and a nice graphics card, all I had to see of SL was lag and a lot of white loading space! I'm glad tht the world runs smoothly here on the school computers.  The world itself is really nice looking. I like that we are able to customize our characters and even build objects. Here is my character;

I had fun creating my own character. I tried getting her to look close to myself but I'll need to put a little bit more work into it.  The columbia IAM island is very nice and I like how it shows the personality of our school.  Communicating with people in game is easy to do.  The coolest part is just being able to roam around the worlds freely with no specific purpose other than just exploring and having fun.  I think that this class is going to be great and I'm excited to learn more about character models and world design.