Sunday, June 12, 2011

Screenshot creator

I wrote a nice little java program that takes one screenshot a minute for an hour and saves it to the current directory. Was a bit of fun to write... might develop it a bit further during the break, but it came in VERY handy for this assignment, so thought i would let you know! And if I can figure out how to upload a copy then I will...


Treehouse

Our group designed a treehouse in archicad, but lost the original ( we forgot to save it in a lab ). So, after many hours of playing with archicad and experimenting we came up with a second design. Here are the screenshots (PDFS in next post):













Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Media Textures on Prims and Sculpties

I added a media texture - an interactive web site display using the built in browser - to both a prim and a sculptie in the original secondlife grid.

Adding a texture to a sculptie, FUN! :
Adding a media texture to a prim:

Interestingly on the NZVWG media textures were not possible - the option was disabled. Unsure why this is. Hopefully it will remedy itself soon.


Scripting and Scratch for SecondLife

SecondLife and S4SL scripting resources that I found:

In the secondlife grid...


These are the three lights I created in the old secondlife grid, before our group migrated to the NZVWG. How depressing...

The light colours are (R,G,B):

  • 24,13,154
  • 0,215,24
  • 227,0,0

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Journals and Blogs

Required for question 6.
  • Building and Environment
  • International Journal of Sustainable Development
  • A + U: a journal of world architecture and urbanism