2014 NEW2: Beginer's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game, Part 2

Beginer's building on the Hypergrid, Part 2.
Primland, the building tutorial game.
Discovery learning.
Updated 11/7/2015
Scroll down for News and Notes (including articles about new TOS)

• Get started in Opensim: Stage 2B(uilding).
• Start building in Opensim.
• Sample of gamification in instructing/onboarding in Opensim.
• Examples of Discovery Learning.
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building game.  Part 1

Need to know before you start

• Walk: Press the arrow keys, see what happens
• Fly:  Press and hold page up. 
• Zoom and roam the camera:  Press and hold Alt, press and hold left mouse key, move mouse or scroll wheel.   
• Go to an address on the Hypergrid (see below).

Go there now Hypergrid addresses, choose one:

Copy-paste into your world map's search bar, click Find, click Teleport when it lights up 

• grid.avacon.org:8002:Primland

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• The Ultimate guide to prim twisting

A prim can be a light source

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Why Texture?

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How to texture

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Your Opensim library

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Self-test

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Coloring inside the prims

• Multimondrians
• Coloring inside the lines. Multimondrians

Prims can be transparent

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Images

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Using textures

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Make your prims follow orders: Scripts

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Content creation

• Backup: Saving your video production set in Kitely. AMP video notes
• Intergrid transport: Move stuff from one grid to another via Firestorm
• ThirdMotion, Inc., avatar creators and digital marketing agency
• New Terms of Service for SL--grants LL the right to sell your work?
• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate
• Comprehensive list of scripts in the Opensim scripting forum
• Good Building Practices (Linden Lab Summary)
• TPV:  Viewers  by third parties, not Second Life  
• Textures, Pictures. How to make and use them
• Uploading 101, textures, sounds, animations

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News and Notes

• OSgrid down as of 9: am slt, 8/20/14 

Events in the virtual worlds  

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Contests and dated calls/invitations

• Ballet Pixel seeks a set designer for their original ballet.  
• Sets involve four dimensions of environmental immersive art  
• *not* a proscenium theatre.  
• Both set designers and environmental artists welcomed.  
• Please contact Inarra Saarinen with a short resume.  

• Lauren special performance: Sunday 24 August 2014
• Time: **2pm - 3pm SLT 
• Venue: The Statler and Waldorf 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DeJu/62/32/24

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• HOT BAY CITY NIGHTS August 23-30:
• Best in vintage and retro vehicles
• At this location:  Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/141/184/29 

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• RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training, and contests!
• Deadline: Sunday August 31st 2014, 11 pm EDT
• Photography Contest: prizes: $50, $30, $20
• Machinima Contest:  prizes: $250, $110, $40

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• Transcending Borders: Launch of UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes

The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilisation or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.

Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winner will be announced in December 2014.   First entries 

News, new TOS, Google and pseudonyms

• Presentation on new TOS at SL Bar Association 8/2/2014
• Second Life TOS (probably) relinquishes its claims on your creations. Finally!
• CG Textures still say no
• Crap Mariner on the Second Life ToS Controversy

• Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms 

Events 

• PARADISE LOST RETURNS FOR A SECOND SEASON: TICKETS ON SALE NOW
• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds. 

• New to Kitely? New to Opensim? Start at the U
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc. 
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
• Ads are from Google 
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• Drop by the Hobo Helpers place in Second Life 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater