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I open the window and I firts started by looking at a movie....








The characters of the movie where very well done, in 3d, the graphics where very nice, I am impress.










After that I played the game you see on the left image, I did not understand what it was about but it was interesting to see how everytime you selected a little guy, it will change it face and then all the others would be looking at the selected guy.







I found the next 3 games very interesting and fun, but this one was my favorite, althoug there is no explanation and I had to loose twice before I understand the game, when I got it , it was easy, and entertaining. To play you just have to move your character right or left with the mouse to catch the jumping animals and help them go to the end without falling to the floor. Also if you cath cherrys you get points.





I have always loved drawing, and I know I would have loved this game when I was a kid... it is a color book, but you pick the colors from the right pallete and when you click the section you want to color it is colored with the color you selected





PingPong, another funny game...it would be excelent to help kids with cordination. You have to move your raquet to hit the ball.

Playing Lord of the Rings Online II

After a week, I have spent more time playing LOTRO and
I am happy to say that I finally learned to kill and I am on
lovel 3 now.. I am proud of my self!
The image on the left is an example of one of the times when
I killed some of those weird creatures.





After I passed the first level, I met my friends and followed them.
We discovered that there is a follow option that you can activate
if you right click on the character you want to follow and then select follow. This option makes your avatar follow the avatar you want and it would stop as soon as you click or make a movement yourself.





My friend Rinathiel and I killed together many creatures, and you can take some gifts after you kill them.. the system randomly selected Rinathiel or I to get the prize!. and it tells you what you get on the IMS window (buttom left corner). You can communicate with everybody through this window. All of the things you get are save on your bags (bottom right corner) and can be sold later.







On the Social window, you can see who else is playing, and
it shows you who is already your fellow.







The top right corner, shows a map of your surroundings. The red arrow is me, and the green point is my friend Rinathiel.








When you kill a creature, the items window pop ups and it ask you if you want to loot it items, if you select loot all, the items are then saved in your bags.








On the right image, we had found another friend, Euthyphro
who played with us for a while.
The bars on the left top corner shows my levels of power on the top and the levels of power of my two friends.







We found some civilians, sometimes they have some indications
for you, others are sellers and buyers.









One of this civilians was selling food, and I bought him
a pork shank, just in case I get hungry later! =).

Playing Lord of the Rings Online

The assigment for the class of this week, was to download the internet game call Lord of the Rings online or LOTRO. I am not
a big fun of the movies or the novels, and I only watched the first episode of the movies "The Lord of the Ring", but it is very similar to what I remember, when you select you character you can select to be a man, an elf a hobbit or a Dwarf, and you could be fighing
against creatures that I remember seing on the movie such us Orc-reavers, but thanks God I have not gotten to that part yet.




For me the first part was fun, I love the part when you select your name, your character, her skin, eyes and clothing.

I selected a female Elve, and my name is Cristil. On the left image
there is a close up of my character.








This is my character again










One of my abilities, is that I play an instrument, that I still dont
know the reason for it, but it is suppose to be good.. I will
find out and let you know later. On the image on the left, I had just arrived to the first world, the windlorf world.







Here I am confronting an evil creature, unfortunatelly, even though I was just playing on the basic level it killed me over and over again. I promise, I will learn and killed him!.

OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION-MOZILLA

Collaborative Computer:


I just read the interview made to the mozilas company chairman Mitchell Baker. And I think it is very fascinating and creative the way this company is structured.
Part of the amount of the company’s employers is paid employees and the rest are just volunteers. How can a company survive like that? Would anybody work for free? Well, Mozila have proved someone will.

Last semester, I took a class on management, and we spent a lot of time on theories about managing people since is one of the harder parts of this science. Not a long time ago, when not many studies have been made on the theories of management, people believed the only motivation that stimulated people was money. Today, management studies have dropped information that shows that money is one but not the only motivation needed, other basic human needs, such us success, realization, and socialization are now considered more important and fundamental for the cooperation of people.
Even tough it sounds very easy; dealing with human being necessities is enormously more complex than just having to pay for a work done, and it is really a case that I would have liked discuss when I was on that class because the company is successful thanks to its volunteers, other companies and managers and CEOS should study the successful system Mozilla have created so it can be adapted to other companies too.

If I would had known about how important feelings and desires are for managing people, I would think the companies strategy is crazy but because I know about it, I can understand why it works. The fact that people can make a good to the community, and that they can work on an important project where they can be the leaders is such as rewarding situation that many people don’t care about money.

Creating Videos on Second Life-Machinema

I looked everywhere, I spent a lot of time, changing words, on search engines until I got to this tutorials that really helped me to create videos on Second Life.

There are different ways to create a videos.. to do so within second life you can click on file on the top bar menu, and then select "start/stop movie to disk" or use the keys control+shift+a... after that you would get a pop up window where you set up how you want your video to be saved....

For more information check this video tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlX7-OfTMz0


Even though Videos can be recorder on second life, many people prefer to use second party softwares, and some of the reasons are best quality, no crashes, etc... after doing a little research, it seems to me that the most popular video capture software is Fraps... a software that can be downloaded for free from http://www.fraps.com/

And if you have any question on how to install it, set it up and use it on second life please open the link below, it contains a tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3AF9A81mb0


I made a very small video to show but, I have been waiting for an hour and it does not upload, so I just decided to take it off .

Regards!!!

Different Kinds of 3d

Last Sunday I met with my 3DV Class at second Life, you can see on the image on the right, all my clasmates and the professor








This is my avatar, I changed the camera, so you could see my face








I can move the mouse in and out while pressing alt and the camera moves around, If I zoom out, you can see my avatars complete body






This is the way my hair looked before I edit it.






I wanted to go very different, so I decided to go for a green.. my favorite color!... not in my hair though.

At class we talked about the different kinds of animation that exist, and the professar made us go to explore two web sites that gave us an example of the two types... of course one of them is Second Life, in which an avatar is involved in the 3d, and the other one where the feeling of 3d is created by pictures inserted into spheres.

The picture on the left is an example of how a 3d video made by pictures in a sphare looks

The second picture on the left show a website that has some examples of the second kind of 3d animation which is more realistic... another example of this is, as I said before is Second Life.

Bye!

Learning How to Build on Second Life 2

After I had learned the basic tools of building thanks to my

friends from The Blue Unicorn I decided to go to a sandbox to practice my new knoledge.

I searched for a sandbox and decided to go to la Isla Bonita

I checked every function of the pallette, I played with tectures, with sizes, and I made different modifications

In another Island (not remember the name) I played more with the tools. I builded a cone, and then took of some parts of it.. etc

As you can see I spent a lot of time playing with all the tools... and looking for information.. my best resource so far have been youtube from where I found very good and interesting tutorials that I highly recommend.

SL Tutorials Links on how to build:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XqQM9hgB0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqyS08db-U&feature=user

Learning How to Build on Second Life 2

Learning How To Build on Second Life

I have been learning how to build on SL for the last 2 weeks, and I had to go around different places, asking for people until I met a guy from Spain who was very nice to take me to unicorn island, where I met people from the Unicorn Group and I am happy to say that they were so nice that I am now even part of their group.

I went to many different places, I was asking everyone, some people is nice, other just dont have any time for you. Exactly the same as it works in the real Life.

During my search I even found I guy who was very proud because he had just bouth a horse.. I tought he had build it, so I ask him how did he do to have it.. He explained to me that he had worked for a while as a bouncer in a club for a while, saved the money and bought the horse with his savings...

I must admit the horse was pretty impresive... While I was there somebody came tome to ask me how to wear some stuff, but unfortunatelly I did not have the answer . I wish I could have helped her, I know how it feels now.

The 2 previous screenshots, while I was being tought by my friends from the blue unicorn, how to start building.. The girls had pretty cool outfits, at that point I only had the cloth I had when I started, but all this people had a store, build stuff like clothing, earings, shoes, etc and they game me my new outfit for free!!!... I was very Happy! My Avatar is hot now!!!