Marnie'sExperience

Where do I start? Should I start with how someone built a prim around me at one point in my adventures, in world, and I couldn't go ANYWHERE!! I had to transport out of that situation very quickly. Wow! I can't believe how rude some of the avatars in world can be. My group and I decided from the beginning of this project that we were going to use screenshots of my development in secondlife. That way if secondlife wanted to crash, which it does from time to time, we were prepared. Well, thank goodness we took that route because sure enough secondlife shut down on Wednesday April 18th for upgrades etc., the first day of CAC!! I bought linden money, bought land on Mir Island and then started learning/practicing how to build prims. However, my group and I also decided that I would know how building prims worked and some Linden scripting language for Q/A session but what I really did is took screenshots of already built airplanes, airports and hangers from other established avatars. Building is actually very easy once you get the hang of it. The rest was left for photshop, swift 3D and flash. You see, Brian J. Seely, our group's main developer actually made it seem like we were really in secondlife, for our presentation, when we really weren't just by using these other multimedia elements in coordination with the secondlife screenshots, smart huh? Well, the CAC members were impressed with it anyways. By the way I was with team emagine. We won best overall and best presentation. I am very proud of us. Everyone else did great too! CAC is definitely an event I will come back for in the future. I also enjoyed changing CarlyAnn Canning (my avatar's name) from Harajuku girl to a bright young executive. She became equipped with a new suit, hair and shoes. That was fun shopping for those items. In the end I learned a lot and had fun while building and traveling in secondlife. I look forward to Dr. Kapp's secondlife class this semester.**
 * I had a some interesting experiences with my secondlife development for Dr. Kapp's RFP class this semester. I learned a lot and on that note I'd like to give Suzi Mazzenga a big thank-you for her help in getting my off to a great start with buying land and showing me around secondlife in general.