PESD Island

I am a student from Second Life. My name is Teddie Canucci and I just took the farm test. The farm test was an excellent challenge for what we have learned over this course. I think it would be a good idea to give this test to the students who have taken the Second Life course. What we did on this test was to build a barn, cow, sheep, and a chicken. The barn had a thatched roof, red walls on the outside, and is wooden on the inside. The sheep had wool for a body texture and the end product actually looked like a sheep. The chicken looked like the actual size of a chicken compared to a human. The cow was an easy part on the test because it is big. That made it easier to build. This test actually demonstrated what the real sizes and textures of a human compared to animals and a barn. It is a great way to see the skills you have obtained over the class. Some of the skills you had to know to pass the test were to link the parts together. Linking the parts together meant you put the parts sticking them together. This could be to your advantage because it will help you move everything together as one object. You had to figure out how to align the parts, by looking really close you can put the parts near each other to get ready to link them. If you did a superb job you would get Linden (money), the money could be spent at the Lowell depot to buy textures and such for other projects. The textures are all different types like cow, fur, different colors, and things like that. Another thing I like about Second Life is you are in control. Ms. Strehlow just tells you what to build. You can do what ever you want such as the textures, how it should look (colorful), and what you want in it. The students can basically do what ever they want.

I’ve just taken a test in Second Life, and yes I would say that this farm test was challenging enough. I like how we built the barn by using prims to build the walls. I use a red wood texture. The roof was made out of straw. I had a little problem with the doors because I couldn’t work the script to make the doors open. So I just rotated the doors so I could walk in and out. It would also have been more difficult if we had to build a variety of buildings like a mill or a pump house. In the test we also had to build some animals. We had to build a cow, sheep, and a chicken out of prims. The chicken was the hardest to build, because the chickens were small. Being small required me to be precise on where I put the body parts. But on top of all that I liked the test because it challenged my abilities. I hope we have more tests like this in the future. -Nik Neximus

In Second Life the project we worked on was building a barn and farm animals which included sheep, cows, and chickens. We were required to build these objects with parts that were given to us for zero Linden. These parts were premade prims of the animals and parts of the barn like walls and a roof. Once I put the parts together I had to then apply the texture of the animal or animal body part and then link the parts so the entire animal and barn could be moved around. I first began with the barn because it was the largest object I had to build so it would be the easiest to put together. The barn was made with a very large rectangle and had red wooden walls and yellow hay colored roof. Once that was built, linked, and had the texture applied, I started working on the animals. I first built the cow since it was the largest animal and easiest to build in my opinion and used the same three steps I used to build the barn [put together, link, apply texture]. The cow was made with a large oval that was white with black spots and had a pink udder and pink nose with yellowish white horns. I then did the sheep which was basically all white like sheep wool and fluffy. The chicken was the last I built and was very small and its parts were very tiny and difficult to see. The color of the chickens was brown and white like feathers. In my opinion the barn was the easiest to build and the chickens the hardest since the barn was the largest and the chickens the smallest. After building all the animals and barn I made a clone of each animal so that there was two of each animal to take up space so it didn’t look so empty. This is how I completed this project. -Salvador Badger

I liked the barn project because it helped me get an enhanced idea what a barn looks like. I have never seen a barn until now because I know how a barn actually looks. I liked the animals because it was a challenge like what the cow needs and what color and textures are. This project helped me improve my skills. I liked the chicken because we had to put the leg on its body. I stretched the chicken and put the feathers on the chicken. The color of the barn is red and the barn is colossal. It was a good size compared to a human because in the real world it is about the same. I liked the test because it helped a group that really needed help with building. The barn just needed to be put together. Ms. Strehlow gave us the parts to it and we had to put it right. We also had to link it so it looks improved. We had to build a chicken, cow and sheep. If you do a superior job you will receive money (Linden). The hardest thing was building the barn because you had to align the walls and putting the right textures on the right objects. Some of the textures I used were black and white textures. I used colored textures too. -Miguell Nirvana

In my farm project I made a cow, sheep, and a chicken. I tried to make my barn as realistic as possible. My animals are realistic sizes compared to my avatar. My barn has a red color with designs on the sides. In the barn I have doubles of the animals outside my barn. I took a picture with me on all the animals. For me the hardest part was the cow because I didn't know what an udder was. Also the chicken was hard because it was small. It was hard to make the animals because it was hard to put then together. I didn't find a nose for my cow. - Gerardo Capelo

In this project I made a barn along with the animals. The animals that we had to build with the barn were a cow, a chicken, and a sheep. I would say that the cow was the hardest to build. I didn't really finish this project, but I did think it was interesting. The skills that were needed to do this project were to link pieces together and align things perfectly. With that being said, my skills in that category aren't very good. I would say that the animals looked very much like they do in real life, except that they're virtual. Textures that we used in this project were white fluff for the sheep, yellow straw for the barn roof, golden feathers for the chickens, and black and white fur for the cow. -Karla Panache

The test on Second Life was great. It really tested our ability on what we have learned in Second Life. It made us use our inventory and take objects out to create the barn and the animals. We had to put the roof, wall, and doors together. We also had to put the legs, arms, and heads together. Then we had to use texture selector and put the red wood on the barn and on the roof of the barn we had to put the hay texture. On the animals we used the feather texture it was brown with a little white on it, the spots were black with a white background, and sheep wool was white and looked like cotton. We also had to link it just in case we had to move anything. It was a great test but we should have made everything instead of just taking it out of our inventory. Then it would have taken longer. The test we had was able to be finished in the time we had. I think the chicken was the hardest thing to do because it was so small. I had to put the feet and the legs together and every time I look around the chicken I was creating then I seen that the foot was not aligned with the leg. I had to move it again then I had the same problem with the right leg and then after that I put the chicken body onto my legs. I put the head and the comb together including the beak but I didn’t finish because I had to write about what I had did so far. We had to create three animals the cow, sheep, and the chicken. We also made a barn. _Damien Ashmoot

These past two weeks we have been working on the farm project. The farm project consisted of a barn, a sheep, a chicken, and a cow. What we had to do was first buy all the supplies which is again, the sheep, cow, chicken, and barn. Then we would have to open our inventory and grab all the supplies. We would have to drag them out and connect everything together. For example we would have to connect the sheep’s head to its body then the feet to the body and stuff like that. For the barn we would take out all four walls then go to the build feature and choose the mouse, so that we can position all the walls together so that it can be a building. After that we can link everything together so that it is just one building and all the parts can move together instead of apart. For the animals we would do the same thing. I would open my inventory and then create the animals with the same process but with the different materials. For example, the sheep we would have to use a white color but red for the barn. –Aymee Verwood

Hello my name is Jonathin Frostbite and I am a Second Life character that took the barn test. I thought the Second Life test was a little challenging but a little easy at the same time. The part that was complicated was making the barn animals because the body parts for the chicken were too little to see and put together. Another part that was very easy was making the barn roof fit on the barn perfectly because the roof was large enough to fit on top of the barn with the walls. I fixed the roof by stretching it out to fit evenly with the barn walls and I enlarged the chicken body parts to make it easier to put the pieces perfectly together. What I was doing in Second Life was building farm walls, farm floors farm doors and a farm roof. The colors of the barn are red and white from the outside and the size of the cow is 1.609, 1.107, 1.430 and the color of the cow is black and white fur color, the size of the chicken was 0.046, 0.036, 0.036 and the color of it is brown feathers, yellow beak and red for the neck and the size of the sheep was 0.469, 0.328, and 0.252 and the color of it was all white fur.

What I leaned from this project is how to use my skills to build different objects. The barn is where all of the animals live. The barn was really big it was life size. This is a really awesome project I liked to make the barn; I would love to do this again. I leaned to use my skills to make everyday things like a barn, the chicken, and the sheep. The best project was probably the barn; the hardest project was the chicken because it was so small. The textures for the barn were pretty colorful it really looked like a barn the most realistic thing was the cow. The cow looked life size. I made a barrel of water it looks so realistic you could almost taste it. The cow had a cow fur. The barn had a straw roof, red walls on the outside the inside had what looked like a metal texture. I didn’t get to finish the chicken but it looked like a real chicken. The chicken is about the same size as a regular chicken. The sheep was pretty easy and fast I finished that with no problem its texture was wool, it looked pretty soft like you could almost feel it. It looked like a real sheep I hope to take this test again it was very cool. _Jaycob Verwood

In this project I made a barn along with barn animals. Some barn animals that I had to build were a cow, sheep, and a chicken. I would have to say that the cow was the hardest to build for me. I didn't work on the chicken and I didn't finish the cow, but I think that this project was interesting and fun. The sheep has all the body parts that a sheep would have and the textures for the sheep are like a cloudy white. The cow has all the body parts that a cow would have and the textures for the cow was black and white fur pattern. The barn texture that I used for the barn floor was a wooden texture, for the outside it was red, and on the top it was a hay texture. The skills that we needed to know were how to put the pieces together and how to link the pieces together. _Tiffanie Starship

Hi! My name is Armando and I have been working on my sheep. My sheep is white and it has its tail and legs. I am working on my cow and it is spotted. My cow is round. The cows legs are going to be round .My cow is round because that’s how most cow are. The cow is going to look like an animal standing outside of an animal store. The cow is like an animal that is a vegetarian so I have to put grass in my barn so that there will be food for my animal to eat. The chicken will look like a yellow feathered animal and it will look really small. The chicken is like a small rodent and it is really fast. My chicken is really hard to make because it has real small features and you can barely see the body parts.

This barn project was difficult, the hardest part was to build the cow, sheep, and chicken. The barn is red; it has space for the cow, sheep, and the chicken to stay in. In Second Life the cow and sheep are black and white the chicken is a yellow and red and it's the smallest of them all. Barn is not really that tall, you could barley fit inside it. The whole barn is hard and it made out of wood, you could sit on it are you could kick it and it wont brake. If you go to Second Life you will like it because it has cool stuff to do and you won’t be bored!!!!!! In Second Life all animals looked real they were all the same size and they looked real. _Kassandra

Hi, my name is Lorenzo and I’m taking the Second Life class and I was working on a barn project. This project helped me get a better understanding in how to link different objects and how to make items without getting any help from students and teachers. The barn project was fun although I did not get a lot done and it helped me improve my building skills so now when I do another project like this I’m going to do much better on it. I used a cow texture on the cow and I know how to make the cow objects bigger and link them together and the barn looked like a barn back in the old days with all the texture and had black and red on the out side and it had a texture that looked like old hay and in the inside it had little stables for the animals to stay in and to be separated from each other. Although I did not do the other projects I think that the chicken would have black and gold feathers and it would have a beak that would look like wood and it would have a red crown on the top of the head and the sheep had a thick fur that looked like leather but is was not brown it was white and the sheep’s legs looked buff and the face looked realistic and the sheep did not have as much detail as the cow and the sheep because it did not have as much body parts as the other two projects. I enjoyed doing this project and I wish I could do another project like this again.