The Comenious virtual world is finally at the point where we have begun to create avatars for our members of staff here at Bromley and so far one from our partner in the Netherlands. The screen shot here shows the main island with its gallery display area, along with central meeting and tutorial hall. While I did create many of the builds here, including the little canal boat, others have been downloaded from OpenVCE project, Linda Kellie Creations and OpenSim Creations.There an number of really nice builds available from OpenSim Creations, and of those two in particular caught my eye for this project. The first was this light house with keepers cottage. I did have to script the door and light beam but the rest rezzed just fine.
Having introduced the Keepers cottage, I could not resist the temptation to introduce a few furnishings, again some downloaded and others home brewed. One of the project team on seeing this suggested that the place could be used as a display area for student work also and why not, sounds good to me.
The second build from OpenSim Creations was a windmill complete with Millers cottage, and just off to the right out to sea you can just make out my clipper ship that sails around the island group.
As with the Light house keepers home, the Millers is also furnished along with bags of
flour. This in fact was just to good an opportunity not to include a virtual mill effect, so you will find a rotating grinding stone accompanied by grinding sounds, just for a touch of realism.The tutorial area has a number of screen shot and OpenVce panels and I will include some movies for things like, changing avatar appearance, building and texturing.
Well thats about all for now, but please stay in touch as the sim comes into use. regards Vega
