MUVEs and Web2.0

On Wednesday, I participate in my second workshop within SL. It was organised by CorDeRosa Loire and the topic of the workshop was “Building Practice through gift giving in SL”.

Approximately two weeks ago we got a description of the workshop activities. The workshop needed a preparatory phase. The participants had to create a T-shirt for the avatar in RL and upload it in SL. Therefore was a step-by-step instruction included in the workshop description.

The preparatory phase: Firstly I downloaded the template for a SL T-shirt, saved and unzipped the folder. Afterwards I opened the file with Photoshop and created my first T-shirt. I imported a picture and adapted it to the form of the t-shirt, by selecting a part of the picture for the front, the back and the arms of the t-shirt. Then I saved the file as jpg. and loaded it up within SL. I renamed the texture in “my new T-shirt “and chose this texture for my t-shirt. It does work!!! I was very happy because I tried to change the appearance without visiting a tutorial before and I learned a new thing.

I created one more t-shirt (including the MUVEnation-logo and different sizes of the cube) and for that I used the software Paint Shop Pro. I tried another way for creating the t-shirt. I chose the pipette and extracted the purple colour from the MUVEnation logo and filled the new layer with this colour. Then I chose the rubber-tool and removed the colour round the back, front and the arms delineation. Afterwards I imported the MUVEnation-logo and minimized it so that it fits on the back of the t-shirt. Then I cut out the cube from the logo and also imported it on the t-shirt for several times. I saved the file and uploaded it in SL.

The workshop: The workshop started on Wednesday at 15:00 (CET). I teleported my avatar to the MUVEnation island and saw far away some little avatars. I ran to them. CorDeRosa, Maerad and Elious already were there. Maerad and Eloius I met the first time. We talked via chat and waited for the others. Then Rosie and Ere arrived. CorDeRosa welcomed everybody and started the workshop. She gave us step-by-step-instructions. We created one box, copied the box three times and renamed and edit each box in their appearance. After editing the four boxes we assembled all together and pulled all parts straight down until it looked like a gift box. The next task was to link all parts together to one box. At the beginning I had some problems to link all parts together. I moved the box in the air to look if all parts are linked together. CorDeRosa gave further instructions and finally all my created parts were linked together. Afterwards I created a new notecard, wrote a message and renamed it. Then I created a new script by copying the script description from CorDeRosa and replaced a text with the name of my created notecard. With drag and drop I put the notecard into my giftbox. On the same way I tried to put my created T-shirt in the box but it didn’t work. The texture of my T-shirt appears on the box and not in the box. I tried it with the other T-shirt and the same happened. The texture of the T-shirt appeared on the box but not in the box???

Yesterday I try this step again – and I understand the instruction “drag from inventory into the open content tab” – my T-shirt appears in the giftbox now.

It was a very nice and interesting workshop with a pleasant and collaborative atmosphere. I recognized that I learned further things and got more familiar with doing things within SL since my first in-world workshop. While the first workshop it wasn’t easy for me to follow the tasks of the workshop – talking to the others via the chat, looking in my inventory and building objects.

Thanks to CorDeRosa for organizing this workshop!