dimanche 30 septembre 2007

Museum 12, Technicalities








The main subject of the virtual museum is the history of Rotterdam, not scripting or making sculpties. But some interesting methods are used to make things look alive.

Scripting was used in:
  • objects in the exhibition, giving comment on touch
  • special effects, sounds and music when an avatar is near
  • temp rezzing, giving objects only on a temporary basis
  • streaming video
  • some teleportation links
  • in special objects like a book, giving an abstract
  • for the quiz, linked to a database
  • for some tracking of visiting avatars, avatars are registered for statistics
  • for the HUD, the thing to wear for obtaining coment in a choosen language
techniques using programes outside of Second Life:
  • for preparing images photoshop was used
  • for the streaming video i used a MAC with itunes
  • for making the sculpties BLENDER
  • for sounds and music, Audacity
  • the linking to the database is done in PHP pages
  • the text and comments about the object on display are stored on a server

Notes:

The comments of the items in the exhibition are in the items and are reproduced on touching by the interaction of the HUD, the HUD giving the right language.

This text of the items can be refreshed by a single command, said by an avatar.

The streaming videos were a problem. Not the streaming itself but the streaming of these videos in the group context. I think there is a bug in this group owned streaming video prims construction.

In the museum visiting avatars are counted (database connection) and some statistics of visitors is generated. The average visitor number is 20 a day since the summer of 2007.

The quiz added in December has its own database. Avatars can try up to five questions a day. Questions are randomly chosen from the list of 50 questions.

Outside the museum is a book showing the main subjects of the exhibition, pages can be turned, a bit of comment is added in floating text.


http://www.hmr.rotterdam.nl/

1 commentaire:

Anonyme a dit…

when are you going to update? :)