Transcript for Second Life - Beginning Building

Hi. This is Jeremy Kemp with San José State University.

I have about a four minute tutorial here on basic building tools in Second Life.

We're going to start out by bringing a sphere. And you can see the X, Y, Z access.

Notice how the arrows point in the positive direction, so if you pull toward the arrow you get a bigger number in X, Y, Z.

You can also use these side pulls.

Ok, I'm going to resize this guy by pulling on one side. You see the little pull tabs.

There's a white one in each corner and then red, blue and green in the middle of each face.

One helpful tip here, if you get too close to the prim or if it is too large, you're not going to see all of the pull tabs.

So pull your camera back to see all parts of the pull tabs.

Ok, let's take a look at the numeric values here in X, Y, Z.

For professional builders, they all use numeric values to keep everything aligned.

So here is the X, Y, and Z. And I'm shifting things by a centimeter using my up and down arrow on my keyboard.

So you can drag it, you can put a number and you can also use the up/down arrow on your keyboard.

Notice the panel has three parts, the location of the "prim", its size and its rotation in degrees.

Sometimes when you're building, its gets pretty confusing about the orientation of the "prim."

So I like to go back in and zero out the rotation X, Y and Z and it gives me a better idea of what I'm doing.

The materials pull down actually has to do with "prims" that have physics.

So they will make different sound depending on what materials they are.

Ok, let's take a look at the different object parameters. A locked prim can't be moved, which is very useful if you build.

A physical prim is subject to gravity. So you can see here I let it go, it drops, hits the ground...

A temporary prim will go away after a minute or two.

And a phantom prim can we walked through.

Phantom prims are very useful if you want to create walls in a structure that don't get in your way.

So here you can see my avatar walks right through the prim. But if I turn phantom off, my avatar gets pushed out from the prim

Ok, now I can't walk through this prim because it's not phantom.

I'm going to turn light on these four spheres. Actually, the two on the left and the one on the right.

The one on the right I'm going to give a red glow.

And you will see if you look at the other two spheres next to it that you get a little red glow.

The one on the left I'm going to make blue. So it will have a blue glow.

Notice that this only has an effect when you have all the lights turned off.

Let's take a look at some "Flex Prims."

This is very useful for making hair.

You will see this a lot on avatars' hair.

You can see that all of the flexible stuff here is attached to the top left of the prim.

Now what I'm going to do is make flexi hair.

I'm taking a single prim and duplicating it by dragging while holding down my shift key.

So I can just do that multiple times.

Now I'm going to make all three of them flexi prims.

I should have done this from the beginning. Ok, so now I have three flexi prims.

I'm going to drag select all of them, hold my shift key down to make it another set and another.

Select them all again and look what happens when I drag them all around.

See how they are flexible. Very useful for making hair.

Ok, this is Jeremy Kemp with San José State University's School of Library and Information Sciences