Pardon Our Dust

We’re expanding! Things are hopping on ClevelandPlus. With the addition of two more full islands and 4 voids we have been able to relocate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center. This leaves us with some extra wiggle room we desperately needed on our original island. When you visit us you will also see some new builds that are very impressive; the Terminal Tower and Public Square, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland Trust, a Cuyahoga County Public Library, the Everett Mansion, Western Reserve Historical Society, the Botanical Gardens, one of the Cleveland Municipal Public Schools (John Hay High School) and about 5 of the Cultural Gardens.

It has been fascinating to watch the builders from the New Media Consortium do their thing. They are able to create incredible 3D representations just from “2D” photographs. They also make use of Google Earth images where possible.

Below are some snapshots we took to document the building process



Aerial View of ClevelandPlus III... the new home of the Rock Hall
As you can see the Terminal Tower build is awesome!



Early picture of ClevelandPlus II while the layout map was still on the ground. It reminds me of a Monopoly Board.



Here is a view of ClevelandPlus II from the top of the Kelvin Smith Library on ClevelandPlus I. You can see the Terminal Tower on the horizon.



Here we are looking back on ClevelandPlus II from the Terminal Tower. In the distance you can see some of the buildings on ClevelandPlus I.


Next… The Case Western Reserve University Faculty Technology Showcase in Second Life….

My First T-shirt

by Mir Bear-Johnson (SL Avatar Mir Benelli)
'm excited. I made my first shirt in SL today. Well, not my first
shirt because I've been able to do that for a while, but my first
shirt with invisible spots and such. It's nothing fancy but man am I
proud of it. (Image) It took me a while to find an explanation on how
to do the invisible thing that made sense. (Mostly because I'm running
Photoshop CS2 and apparently the instructions for that are different
then any of the other photoshops. Who knew.)

Anyways, making shirts themselves isn't hard. I just hopped over to
the Second Life Wiki (https://wiki.secondlife.com) and stumbled across
this gem, http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/clothing-in-second-life.php,
which gave me the bases I needed to be able to orient words and such
on my clothing.


Then going to another article,
http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/creating-your-first-shirt.php, from the
same person I made my first shirt!

Clearly it wasn't much more interesting then what I could've made
without paying the 10$L to uploadthe texture.

I was honestly a little bummed -- then I started trying to play around
with alpha channels. Those are the things that make it possible to
have invisibility and transparency in textures. I tried using the same
person's tutorials as helped me figure out the shirt,
http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/alpha-channel-primer.php, but they
just didn't work for me. So I ended up finding
http://www.sltutorials.net/magazine/
and this Quicktime video
http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages/TranspSL.html.
And from there I was able to figure it out.

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I'm going to need to make more Linden dollars camping to support this
new habit of mine!

But still, I'm mad proud of my shirt.