FINISHEDHSRFED!!!!

It speaks for itself.

Finally, capturing footage.

I managed to finish my room today.
Prior to this I wasn't able to get much done because the region's primitive limit was always full, so I just helped other people as a camera man for their machinimas. I don't have an excuse for my lack of blogs though - I'm just a lazy bastard.

Anyway >.> Last week and this week I added the final touches to my room, adding all the junk items I'd collected off freebie islands and classmates to my room. Tina made a cool avatar that I'm going to use as my second character.

Andrew dropped some cool junk in my room while I wasn't looking.
Last week I worked on textures with transparent backgrounds to make my room look really messy and crowded with minimal primitive use (even if I wanted to be an asshole, the region is full before I can add too many of my own primitives).
This week I imported those textures and now my room is looking super.

Unfortunately my walls were accidentally deleted by SOMEONE. That only took an hour to fix though, and I managed to get my first bits of footage recorded before the end of class, which is just the intro, but anything is better than nothing.

I've obviously had to deviate from my storyboard a bit, replacing certain animations and objects with what I could get my hands on. The room layout is different from the storyboard, but I can easily work with that.


Watch out for necrophiles

HARHARHAR!!! GIMP MEN!!!!

So I was chillen at the VU Island in Second Life today when I realised my apartment's layout would get in the way of how I wanted to make the machinima - there were walls in the way of where the camera should be, etc. I didn't have the rights to change things because they were Dale's objects, so after whining and bitching at him for an hour, he deleted two walls and some additional architecture on other walls to make my apartment look more bland and lower-class. We chose a better floorboard texture which makes the place look a lot more filthy now. I also got Dale to delete move some of the wall to make way for another door which will be essential in my machinima. Dale gave me several items that I can use as "junk", as well as showing me the "Hobo Island" where you can buy hobo-items for free.
Then something terrible happened. I was captured by gimps and forced to take it like a bitch on some rack in Tina's apartment. Then I turned into a skinny black guy, and then a stumpy little gimp creature myself.
(Second) Life is traumatizing.

Today

Today we all claimed ownership of our individual apartments by placing custom-made billboards with our names on them, which was totally ninja. Xenomorphs are fucking sexy.

Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

Today I went around looking for furniture and other props that I want to use in my machinima. Dale gave me a few items, and I gave some of my friends a few items that I found, but most of the items so far have been obtained from freebie shops, WHICH ARE AWESOMElY HELPFUL :@

I also found a shield thing to stop people from caging me with cage guns. 'cause everyone else have items like that to annoy each other with. Ran into some weird sex-related objects that people had bought to the VU server, and while I was shopping I saw some guy who had turned himself into a massive penis.

Also created a new character for my machinima: he's Leon Stuart, this fat guy. You can see in the pictures below.

harrasssssss

I spent today making a gun that shot the earth-sphere I made last week. I had to link the objects together and name them as "bullet", like on object, to get them to fire out of the gun, but eventually it worked, and annoyed the shit out of everyone due to its immense size.

After that I made a block and put a go-kart script in it, which... turned the block into a go-cart. It looked horrible, but the in the screen shots provided, I look like a deranged wake-boarder or something, which is just dandy.

A few other screen shots provided just to describe the odd stuff I've seen.

Second Life

Today I learned the basics of using Second Life. I made a monstrosity of a character, explored some places, added Dale and some classmates as contacts, made a t-shirt design, a weird spinning, multi-layered globe, and a transparent bed.
Pictures!

Was a bit weirded out by the message about online Medieval BDSM roleplay, but whatever makes people happy...