CLASSES: CAP 4403 and CAP 6402

PROJECT 1: Second Life Modeling

DUE DATE: February 8, 2008 @ 1:55PM

ISLAND CLEAN DATE: February 11, 2008

LATEST DRAFT of this document: February 5, 2008

• To do:
  • Choose a building or physical structure within the University of Florida Campus
  • Model this building or structure within Second Life. Create all the prims and scripts yourself OR ensure that the 3 primary permissions can be set with any foreign prims, scripts, or media that you obtain or purchase (see the permissions information under Deliverables). Otherwise, do not include them in your object.
  • Use at least two scripts in your project
  • Make dynamic links to any outside web information that relates to the object or part(s)
  • Try for diversity in what you create - do not all create the same object (i.e. Century Tower, CSE Sculpture)
• Grade:
  • Pay special attention to detail. Is your object fully texture mapped? Look atthe colors, textures, materials, lighting, and other object properties.
  • Based on the quality of the project as it compares with the total population of student projects that are delivered
  • There are higher expectations of those taking CAP 6402 (graduate students)
  • A grade of "B" meets the minimal requirements specified in this page, whereas a grade of "A" is given to the projects with the highest quality as judged by the Professor and Teaching Assistant (TA)
  • Hints for Improving Your Grade: these hints do not guarantee an "A" but they will help you consider some possible ways to move into the highest category
    • Pay extra attention to quality: does it look realistic as the actual structure? Are you proud of the structure: would you want to show it off to others?
    • Increase detail as time allows for a higher quality structure
    • Take several photos of your structure both for reference as well as for use as textures on the prims
    • Capture any ambient sounds if they are near or part of the structure
• Reference: quality places in-world (use search via Search or Map tabs) to look at: Virtual Dublin Virtual Copenhagen
• Deliverables: To submit your project, you need to:
  • Give to the TA inside of Second Life by going to Search -> underneath people tab search for the TA: Haakon Norsk. Drag your object to the TA's profile (the right-side area that is shown).
  • Submit your project report (same as notecard) on https://elearning.courses.ufl.edu/ to facilitate grading. Go to Assignments, click on Project 1, and past the contents of your notecard in the "submission" box, and any comments in the "comments" box.
  • Make sure that all permissions are set (see below under Policies). Set all permissions when the object is rezzed, not while in inventory. This is how to set permissions and do testing:
    • For each rezzed object, make sure that all 3 permissions are checked under the "General->Next owner can:" tab for each prim. You can set these prim permissions en-masse by region selecting all prims and then setting the permissions. However, this does not set permissions for anything under the "Content" tab in each prim.
    • For each item under the Content tab for each rezzed prim (where you may have contents such as scripts, sounds, notecards, textures, and so forth), right click each item and set all 3 next owner permissions under "Properties->Next owner can:". You can SHIFT select all items under content, but this will bring up tabs which have to be individually selected anyway.
    • Searching for prims that do not have the correct next-owner permissions can be facilitated using region (rectangle)-select while in edit mode. Select some part of your project. If all three next owner boxes are white, each with a check mark, then all prims and prim contents are set correctly for that selection. If there is a greyed-out box, then at least one prim or the content of a prim are not correctly set within that selection. Further sub-region selects will allow you to identify which prims are the problem.
    • Testing to make sure your permissions are correctly set is accomplished by giving your complete object package to another student in-world. Make sure that this other student does the following: (1) receives your object, (2) rezzes it, and (3) takes your object back into their inventory. If this can be done without any warnings being displayed next to your object in their inventory, you are fine. Warnings are: "(no copy)", "(no modify)", or "(no transfer)". If you wish to come to the instructor's or TA's office hours, we can be part of your permissions test if you do not wish to enlist the help of another student.
    • Position Invariance should be tested by moving and rotating your project, and ensuring that doing so does not break the functionality of any scripts that you have coded.
  • Do the following:
    1. Region select (Edit Mode->drag mouse) all prims in your object in edit mode. Select only your objects (Tools->Select-Only-My-Objects) and if necessary (Client->uncheck Limit-Select-Distance)
    2. "Take Copy"(Right-Click Object-->More)
    3. Rename object using a long string consisting of the following: your real-life first and last name; your second-life first and last name; your project title; version number. Separate each part with an underscore. For example: "PaulFishwick_FrederichCourier_My Project Name_V1.3"
  • Put a notecard in a prim in front of your object that acts as a "sign", and deliver his to the visitor when the visitor touches the object. This sign should be selected along with the rest of your prims when you hand it over to the TA. On this notecard, include the following in this order:
    • Title: Name of Building or Object
    • Creator: Your real name and SL name in parentheses
    • Date: date of creation.
    • Location: specify where the object is located on campus
    • Interaction: List of methods on how one interacts with the object
    • Description: Include information about the building, as well as screenshot(s) and web links.
• Policies:
  • Wrong Permissions: penalty: 15 points per day. See above for how to set the permissions.
  • Late: minus 15 points per day starting with the due date/time.