Post Crit

After my Crit with my group members
I have taken note of a few things that could be improved:
- Learning how to collaborate with others and fusing many ideas together ( relates to working with clients later on in our careers).
- Thinking outside the square.
- Making light switches actually emit light.
- That a 'Virtual Library' does not necessarily need to be a building.
- Not putting furniture in the 'virtual library'.

Overall I'm quite pleased with how the crit turned out and i hope i will get a decent grade!

Offset pattern

More Photos from Virtual Library - Finished!

Perspective

Bridge connecting both our libraries

View into group members virtual library

Interior View

View from the sea

Changing of Virtual library in Second Life to suit journals

After reading my journals that I was assigned i have now changed my building by quite a bit. My journals were about Access by Design(Special Needs), Acoustics, and management.

 Here is the new and altered building:

 Light switch off

 Light Switch in Action!

Making a rotating screen

I began with applying a texture on a flat, square prim that was reminiscent of white noise on a television.
Then I applied the following script in order to animate it to show movement on the screen:
default
{
state_entry()
{
llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | LOOP | SMOOTH | ROTATE, ALL_SIDES,
1, 1, 1, 1, -0.025);
}
}
Layer this on top of a another flat prim (as your monitor) and add buttons wherever you would like in order to increase authenticity.

Making a light switch

Today i found out how to make a light switch in my library :)

Here's an easy way to make a basic light switch:

The switch is made of 3 parts/prims: The rotor, switch and light source.

The script for the rotor is as follows:

myon_state()

{

   

   rotation rot = llGetRot();

   vector vrot = llRot2Euler(rot);

   vrot+=<-30*DEG_TO_RAD,0,0>;

   rot=llEuler2Rot(vrot);

   llSetRot(rot); 

   

   

}

myoff_state()

{

    

   rotation rot = llGetRot();

   vector vrot = llRot2Euler(rot);

   vrot+=<30*DEG_TO_RAD,0,0>;

   rot=llEuler2Rot(vrot);

   llSetRot(rot); 

   

   

}

default

{

    state_entry()

    {

           myoff_state();  

                  

    }

   

   

   

   

    link_message(integer sender_num, integer num, string str, key id)

    {

        if(str=="stop")

        {

            myoff_state();

        }

        if(str=="start")

        {

           myon_state();

        }

    }

}

The script for the switch is as follows:

integer myswitch;

default

{

     

   

    state_entry()

    {

       

        myswitch=FALSE;

        llSetText("Light Switch", <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>, 1.0);

    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)

    {   

  

       if(myswitch==FALSE)

       {   

      

       //Turn Light Bulb ON

    

       llMessageLinked(LINK_ALL_CHILDREN, 0, "start", NULL_KEY); 

       myswitch=TRUE;

      

      

      

       }

       else

      {

         

      //Turn Light Bulb Off

         

      llMessageLinked(LINK_ALL_CHILDREN, 0, "stop", NULL_KEY); 

      myswitch=FALSE;   

     

     

   

     

     

      }

   

    }

}

And finally, the script for the light source is as follows:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT,ALL_SIDES,FALSE]);
                  
    }
   
   
   
   
    link_message(integer sender_num, integer num, string str, key id)
    {
        if(str=="stop")
        {
           llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT,ALL_SIDES,FALSE]);
        }
        if(str=="start")
        {
           llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_FULLBRIGHT,ALL_SIDES,TRUE]);
        }
    }
}

One you have made these 3 prims and scripted the above, simply link them together into one prim (this can be done by holding down shift or alt and selecting the 3 prims) Once selected, press CTRL-L in order to fuse them into one prim and voila! A lightswitch.

Treehouse produced in ArchiCAD (Sections and Axonometric)

Texture made in Photoshop

After experimenting with photoshop i made a texture for the ground tiling on my virtual library.

Alpha Channels

Progression of Virtual Library

Groups building in progression