I've not had the opportunity to try out Google's SketchUp, a 3D modeler. Apparently it integrates quite well with Google Earth, the RL geography presentation tool. In fact, the two work so well together that pundits have been making noises that SL ought to be concerned. Personally, I don't see the threat; SL is, and has always been, much more than the attempt to create virtual models of RL locations.Regardless, Roo Reynolds at Eightbar has taken the dialogue a step further, and coded up a way to get the 3D information from SketchUp into SL. Check out his methods here; if anyone has tried this, contact me and let's talk!
1. Thing about Second Life is when you join you are offered a choice of Avatars. All have nice smiley WHITE faces, unless you want to pose as a Racoon.
And in the adult Horizons Resort, one character, Palad, says whenever the issue arises, we wishes the "furries" would stick to their own "community". He defends his views, but incites others to act. His girlfriend Felicity dismisses all Scots as "mean" and the few who have dared protest this RAMPANT RACISM have been arbitrarily thrown off the site by a defiant management
Posted at 7:23AM on Dec 6th 2006 by Jack Lucas