Machinima, Building and Scripting for Second Life
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If you are interested in acquiring Machinima, building, and scripting skills
for use in Second Life, join HVX Silverstar and Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks in the
course:
"Technical skills for the Virtual World of Second Life"
Class starts Tuesday, August 5th so register NOW. (see below)
Audience: Open to anyone interested in improving their SL technical skills.
Students should feel comfortable navigating in Second life or have taken Second
Life 101.
Dates and times: Tuesdays, August 5, 12, 19, and 26 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM SL (US
Pacific) time
Location: Second Life
Cost: $150
Week One: Camera controls - Hands-on session using the camera controls and
shortcuts. Activities include taking snapshots, exploring the snapshot menus
and taking high resolution images, and capturing colors, depth and object
mattes. The camera controls are used for building and viewing objects close-up
or off in the distance, for taking more creative snapshots and also for basic
camera movement for filming machinima.
Week Two: Introduction to Machinima - What do you need to film in SL? A look at
workflow for creating machinima (filming, additional third-party software);
displaying machinima on the web (YouTube, Blip.tv or other host sites);
streaming video or machinima into SL). No software required for this portion of
the class.
Week Three: Basics of Building session: Students will learn about SL primitives
(building "blocks"), the build-edit window, manipulating & positioning prims,
texturing, linking and setting permissions on their objects. Students will
create an object that they will make interactive in the week 4 scripting
session. A selection of "DYI kits" will be available to students to choose from
for this activity.
Week Four: Basics of Scripting session: Students will learn the basic elements
of the LSL scripting language (no coding experience required!) and will focus
on using freely available scripting tools, customizing/modifying open source
scripts, using the LSL code editor and adding scripts to objects.
Troubleshooting script issues will be covered. In-world and web resources will
be provided, as well as a open source script package for beginners as a
take-away.
Instructors: Bernadette Swanson (HVX Silverstar) and Denise Cote (Pipsqueak
Fiddlesticks)
Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the
University of Illinois and the Alliance Library System.
For additional information and to register:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/VW/tech.html
Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302
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