| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Let's begin. Phrynne, do you have anything for the day. |
| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
? |
| 15:12 |
Gronk Seriman |
Loiks like Andrea had the same idea. |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
I have only one thing to report -- the Vehicle Sandboxes do not work. |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
There are three of them, and I have checked -- all have the ability for anyone to rez anything turned off. |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Can you expand on that a bit? |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That rather defeats the concept of a sandbox. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
The Vehicle Sandboxes are places where you can try out any vehicle on all sorts of terrain -- hills, sand, roads, mountain, river... |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
We have been sending people there for years, since vehicles aren't allowed at Oxbridge. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
I had a complaint from someone that he couldn't find the location where he should rez his motorcycle, so I went to check. |
| 15:15 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Too many troublemakers? |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
The land info options have been changed --instead of 'Everyone build |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
it is group only |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
Everyone can theoretically bring in objects -- bu they can't rez them. |
| 15:15 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Are these Linden owned or owned by a private group? |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
These are Linden-owned. |
| 15:16 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
can one join the group and do it that way? |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
No. It's a Linden-operated space. |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
I have sent a complaint about this to Michael Linden, who is in charge of them, and in charge of Public Works. |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Wonder if they are making them premium only. |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
If they were premium only, I wouldn't have been able to go there. |
| 15:17 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
And it has been duly filed and forgotten, probably |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
no, they are still open to everyone -- but you can't do much. |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Play in the sand? |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
There are some interesting scenic bits for photographs, but you'll walk or fly yourself to get there. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
Maybe. |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hopefully, you get a reply or change for your message. |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
This is one of several sorts of specialized sandboxes -- there are combat sandboxes, for testing weapons, for instance -- but this was one of hte most useful. |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
I hope so. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
Anyway -- please, staff, take note and don't send anyone there until I hear back from Michael Linden or find out for myself that they work. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
That's all I have; RL occupied me too much this week. |
| 15:20 |
RainyDayRecess |
Hi Jorge :D |
| 15:20 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Huzzah! It's the Rezday boy! |
| 15:20 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
;^) |
| 15:20 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Congrats |
| 15:20 |
Jorge Serapis |
*waves to everyone* |
| 15:20 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Does anyone know of alternative non-Linden areas which are vehicle friendly? |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'm pretty much in the same boat, Phrynne. I was on travel part of the week, prepping before that, and recovering afterward (two day meeting with < 4 hours sleep each prior night). |
| 15:21 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) unfurls two flags and waves them |
| 15:21 |
Jorge Serapis |
*throws an anvil at Elfbiter in affection!* |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Technically there are Linden roads in the mainland, however, at least in the past, the sim crossings were ... "interesting". |
| 15:22 |
Phrynne |
There are some motorcycle-based sims with fun roads, and I think some racecar sims. You might search? |
| 15:22 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
I know of a good airfield, but not much there for land vehicles |
| 15:22 |
Phrynne |
The Blake Sea is there for sailing, of course, and aircraft |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I suppose one could drive below the surface. |
| 15:23 |
Gronk Seriman |
I will need to check out some of the old Linden sandboxes I know to see if this is widespread. |
| 15:23 |
Phrynne |
Please let me know what you find out, Gronk. |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Please let me know what you find out, Miss Gronk. |
| 15:24 |
Gronk Seriman |
Will do. |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Bertram Keith was going to take over basic building, but had some disrupting life events occur. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I need to get out a general solicitation for teachers anyway, and have the uncommitted time to do it this week. |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(Wonder if Aylaria can chase off any impending crises -- or snack on them) |
| 15:27 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I can always try, Wordsmith |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
:D |
| 15:27 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
But usually I'm not a lot better than the sharks at crisis management |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Jorge, did you have anything for this week. |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
? |
| 15:28 |
Jorge Serapis |
No and yes. :_) |
| 15:28 |
Jorge Serapis |
I haven;t been able to work on furhter textures... |
| 15:28 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. due to RL work commitments... |
| 15:28 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. but I was intrigue at Carl's worry about the kiosk primmage shooting up. |
| 15:29 |
Jorge Serapis |
So as a point of excercise... |
| 15:29 |
Jorge Serapis |
I created my own version. |
| 15:29 |
Jorge Serapis |
Even with language control buttons... it still rates as a 1 LI.. |
| 15:30 |
Jorge Serapis |
(It's a non functioning model.) |
| 15:30 |
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Phrynne scoots chair over in case Jorge wants to put it on the stage |
| 15:30 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Careful, Jorge, don't knock it over! |
| 15:30 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-) |
| 15:30 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. so I think that puts Carl's worry to rest. |
| 15:30 |
RainyDayRecess |
Beautiful Jorge :) |
| 15:31 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Lovely |
| 15:31 |
Jorge Serapis |
(And thank you, Rainy. :_) ) |
| 15:31 |
Jorge Serapis |
... and Larky. :-) |
| 15:31 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
It is wonderful work! |
| 15:31 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
The buttons to my right? Those are flags of the language groups? |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Making it function isn't difficult. Similar to the picture display example I use as an example script for Basic Scripting (although displaying a random language likely won't cut it). |
| 15:31 |
Jorge Serapis |
Yes, larky... |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. Like I said.. I did this mostly as an excerciseto see if I could make a more detailed kiosk and still keep it to 1 LI. |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
If this was functioning as I imagine... by touching one of the flags... |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. the tutorial texture would switch for a pre detemined amount of time before returning to English. |
| 15:33 |
Jorge Serapis |
If y'all chos to go that route, instead of the proximity sensor. |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
What's the limit on number of flags? |
| 15:34 |
Jorge Serapis |
As to the individual number of buttons, I can't say off the top of my head.. |
| 15:34 |
Jorge Serapis |
...I could probably increase it to 6 or so if I drop the curves on the kiosk. |
| 15:35 |
Jorge Serapis |
Using the button, perhaps a possibility would be a single button accessing a drop down menu and selecting the language from there... |
| 15:35 |
Jorge Serapis |
.. which in that case, the amount is unrestrained. |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Right. Could even temp-rez the selector. |
| 15:36 |
Jorge Serapis |
Well, if y'all choose th drop down menu, you'd not even need the button. Just let people know at the beginning to just click on the texture face to access a different language. |
| 15:37 |
Jorge Serapis |
Again, that's for y'all to work out.. but the point was to allay Carl's fear of prims being eaten up over it. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anyway, sounds like we have some options in implementing the kiosks. |
| 15:37 |
Gronk Seriman |
We are teaching new people that can barely walk and look at things. I think recognizable flag buttons may be the best. |
| 15:37 |
Jorge Serapis |
Speak of the devil. :_) |
| 15:37 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hi. I took a nap this afternoon. That was a bad idea. |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hi Carl. |
| 15:38 |
Carl Metropolitan |
A question. What is the red and yellow flag? |
| 15:38 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Spain? |
| 15:39 |
Jorge Serapis |
Spain for Spanish, Brazil for Portugese. |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hmm... Would it be possible to half that texture and have one half be the Mexican flag? |
| 15:39 |
Jorge Serapis |
Sure. |
| 15:40 |
Jorge Serapis |
But then I can get patriotic and ask for a Puerto Rican flag. :-P |
| 15:40 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Good point. |
| 15:40 |
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Gronk Seriman smiles |
| 15:40 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
And the Venezuelans will feel slighted |
| 15:40 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Is the spanish flag immediately recognizable to most spanish speakers? |
| 15:40 |
Jorge Serapis |
*hopes carl realises J is teasing* |
| 15:40 |
Jorge Serapis |
I would assume so. |
| 15:41 |
Jorge Serapis |
Let me rephrase that: I would hope so. |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hmmm, that's a useful idea also, a single texture with multiple flags along it as a selector. |
| 15:41 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Why not buttons that simply say Espanol or Portugues? |
| 15:41 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. I am not. Spain has less native speakers of spanish than the US. And about 1/3th the number as Mexico |
| 15:41 |
Jorge Serapis |
That's perfectly feasible. |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Jorge, that says it's two prims, but I don't see the color of a child prim. What's the second prim? |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(still LI 1, however) |
| 15:42 |
Jorge Serapis |
? |
| 15:42 |
Jorge Serapis |
I get a 1 LI. |
| 15:43 |
Carl Metropolitan |
But if the spain flag icon is recognizable then I guess it is okay. |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes. If I edit and click on more info, it says one object, 2 prims at the top, then LI 1 below. |
| 15:43 |
Jorge Serapis |
Ah. the root prim here is the Brazilian flag button. |
| 15:44 |
Jorge Serapis |
Mesh can come in under 1 LI, but SL rounds up the total LI to the nearest whole number. |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Right. There's been creations where I've fought for the 0.1 that will make it round down. |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It actual rounds to the nearest whole number -- not always up, but never zero. |
| 15:45 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If we add more language icons, will that flip the display up another prim? How many can be added without doing that? |
| 15:46 |
Jorge Serapis |
:-) Well, the proof of concept is there to allay that particular fear. |
| 15:46 |
Jorge Serapis |
I think I can add up to five more language buttons if I drop the curved surfaces. |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Or, I think we could use a single texture for selecting. Let me look that up. |
| 15:47 |
Jorge Serapis |
(ie make the columns and the flag buttons square/rectangular.) |
| 15:48 |
Jorge Serapis |
The vertices involved in a curved suface eat up a lot of the total LI. |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I can determine where on my display screen I click to position a "laser pointer", that should be easily possible. |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wow. That should cover us for ages! |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I love the wood work you've textured in the front. |
| 15:48 |
Jorge Serapis |
Thank you. |
| 15:48 |
RainyDayRecess |
Yes, it's very nice |
| 15:49 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I like the avatar holding the menu, too. Very SLish |
| 15:49 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I like the wood, too |
| 15:49 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Do you think there is any way you could make the columns brass though? |
| 15:49 |
Jorge Serapis |
Sure. |
| 15:50 |
Jorge Serapis |
Like so? :-) |
| 15:50 |
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| 15:50 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Looks Jacobean |
| 15:51 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Oh Nice |
| 15:51 |
Jorge Serapis |
A brass relief texture I have. |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Carl, did you have anything for today? |
| 15:52 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Did anyone annouce that the fundraiser last night organized by Andrea and DJed by Poppy raised ~4500L$ for Oxbridge? |
| 15:52 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Yeah! |
| 15:52 |
Gronk Seriman |
Woohoo! |
| 15:52 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Even better. |
| 15:52 |
Carl Metropolitan |
What was the total? |
| 15:53 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I know 250 came in after it ended, so I was doing math in my head. |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And sounds from Andrea that there's more to collect, correct Andrea? |
| 15:54 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The art is beautiful Everyone should go see it. I wish I still had a museum, so I could buy and display some of it. Also, Phyrnne is a very talented RL photographer! |
| 15:54 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
:^) |
| 15:55 |
Phrynne |
thank you, Carl! |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And best we see if there are questions? |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Oxbridge, SL, and beyond. |
| 15:56 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Everyone should go see it. Really. |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Questions, announcements, gripes, confusions? |
| 15:58 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Do we have a sign warning people about rezzing boxes handed to them by strangers? |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I banned a person holding a screamer box last week that turned out to have been a newbie who didn't know how to get rid of it. |
| 15:59 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Just an idea. The walls here are a bit blank. Perhaps we could sometime have a contest to display artwork? Or rotate it? |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We did a photo contest a few years back |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We could do a new one |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It was a contest/fundraiser |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
People voted by contributing L$ to the photos they liked best. |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Easy to do some display prims that rotate their display too -- even randomly. |
| 16:00 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
perhaps after the holidays die down |
| 16:00 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Ah, that's a good worksaver, Wordsmith |
| 16:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Good idea. |
| 16:00 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I don't want ot trample on Andrea's show, nor on the Advent Calendar. And Samm's building show, too. |
| 16:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Any last tidbits before we adjourn? |
| 16:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Don't take naps on Sunday afternoons. |
| 16:03 |
Gronk Seriman |
That's the best way to watch NAPCAR, Carl! |
| 16:04 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Can we ice skate on your seasonal pool, andrea, or is it fed by a nice hot sulfur spring? |
| 16:04 |
RainyDayRecess |
Almost all Word :) |
| 16:04 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
:^) |
| 16:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Heck, one can lay down a dance floor, and Ice sheet, .... |
| 16:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(not at once) |
| 16:05 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) remembers a dance event where host accidentally deleted the dance floor..... |
| 16:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(unless one is doing ice dancing) |
| 16:05 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Was it in a skybox, Elfbiter? |
| 16:06 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, Rainy can tell a story of a script of mine that instead of opening a door overturned the entire pool. |
| 16:06 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Yes..... |
| 16:06 |
RainyDayRecess |
My fault :( sorry |
| 16:06 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Happened to me at a joust once... |
| 16:06 |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) |
Raining jousters and horses |
| 16:06 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The documentation of Keyframe motion says it doesn't work in a child prim. That's incorrect, it works -- as if it were in the root prim. |
| 16:08 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea, anything? |
| 16:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, adjourned. |
| 16:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all for coming. |
| 16:09 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you Deans :) |
| 16:09 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 16:09 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
thank you, Deans and Citizens |
| 16:10 |
Gronk Seriman |
I'd bet a few sims in Caledon need restarting. Including this one. |
| 16:10 |
Phrynne |
Thanks for being here |
| 16:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I saw derailed train recently as well... |
| 16:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
But anyway. |
| 16:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Bedtime for me. |
| 16:10 |
Gronk Seriman |
Than you. Deans and Chancellors! |
| 16:10 |
Phrynne |
good night, Mr.Elfbiter |
| 16:11 |
RainyDayRecess |
Night Elfbiter :) |
| 16:11 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Sleep well, Mr. Elfbiter |
| 16:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Goodnight |
| 16:11 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Take care, all |
| 16:12 |
lovejoy2199 |
Yes. It is that time again. |