Wow, so today did not go as planned at all. I had a chance “meeting” with Dr. Polack, and she expressed her disdain for the monorail as a symbol for public transportation (which I agreed with). Apparently, a good marker for public transportation in Second Life doesn’t exist…I probably spent a good 2-3 hours today searching for one (and that doesn’t count yesterday at all). I can’t believe no one has a made a city bus or metro looking train before, it seem so obvious (especially when people waste time making tractors and scooters!!).
While we were talking, however, I got an idea: what if modified my existing school bus to look sort of like a city bus? After doing a quick demo for Dr. Polack on the capabilities of modification, I realized it was probably possible. Anyway, I spent countless hours on the thing, but it’s finally done. Ever seen an episode of “Pimp My Ride”? That’s basically what happened here since I had to completely change the way everything looked for the conversion (I left both out in the UMW common area that way the comparison can be made). The end result looks really good, and will be an excellent representation of public transportation in my opinion (I hope you like it Dr. Polack, because after 3-4 hours of texturing at least, I’m 99% sure I’ll never want to touch the edit button on it again haha).
Since the bus took so long, I didn’t do much else. I did, however, meet with Shiv to check on the status of my people objects. He showed me a couple different versions of the Hawaiian, so I made a few suggestions for him to create the final version. Luckily, he had a bit of time right then, so he finished it off for me right on the spot. It looks good (and definitely serves for our purposes), so I bought it off of him right there…hopefully I can get around to playing with it soon (I’ll leave a copy next to the buses so everyone can see it). I reiterated the specs for the black man, so he’ll probably have that ready by Friday or so. I’m definitely glad things are on a much more definite track than before.
I think I’ve decided on a new way to close these blogs (before any activities logs, that is)…I think I’m going to post my goal for the next day. I think this will be beneficial, since it will not only keep me looking ahead, but also help me better realize how much I can do in one day. And without any further ado…My next goal: create the “bubbles” to go around each vehicle and set up the basics behind object-communication system for the transportation visualization.
My significant activity for the day:
6/6/07
*Searched for a city bus and/or metro train car
*Completely retextured a school bus into a city bus
*Bought Hawaiian mannequin
Spending:
*$10 – Upload of bus side
*$10 – Upload of bus front/back
*$10 – Upload of bus lights
*$10 – Upload of bus grille
*$10 – Upload of bus logo
*$10 – Upload of bus sign
*$1000 – Hawaiian mannequin
