The Completed Virtual Library

This is our final completed virtual library. We have used our own textures for the floor and walls apart from the walls and floor which are glass.  We have used particle systems such as our fire banister and our waterfall.  Our textures were made on photoshop using the render tool and the offset tool. 

The floor of the ceiling has been made with the render tool -clouds. 

Yolie's bookshelf of her three journals and her blog

Tammy's bookshelf of her three journals and her blog

My bookshelf of my three journals: Lighting Design and Application, Architectural Record and AV Proyectos. 

Texture we made using fibers in the rendering tool.  We have used this texture as our main texture for the flooring as well as the texture for our walls.
 

My blog is located on the top floor of the virtual library on the roof next to the orange stairs. 

Virtual Library

This is the completed virtual library which is shared by our three group members containing all 9 journals (three journals from each member).  We each have our own library area storing our journals as well as our blogs. 

Our three group members

Archicad Treehouse

In our group of 3 for the virtual library, we have made a treehouse in Archicad with a swing. 

Section AA

North Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

Floorplan

Axonometric

Axonometric (without swing)

My Virtual Library

My virtual library is on the first floor of the building.  The texture behind the bookshelf has been made on Photoshop.  The shelves are made from glass.  The transperant wall separating the building from the bookshelf has been scripted to move down when touched so that an avatar can enter the virtual library and view my three journals.

Textures

We have experimented on photoshop using various ways of manipulating the texture with different effects and colours or distortion.  These are a few we have made.

 Different clouds (in rendering tool)

 Fibers (in rendering tool)

 Lighting effects and gradient tool

 Lighting Effects

Clouds (in rendering tool)

Moving Texture

This is a moving texture where the script for the fire to work has been copied from the Particle Lab from the Teal Region on Secondlife.  The moving texture has been applied so that it is moving along the prim.

Library In Progress

Library In Progress

Use of an Alpha Channel on Secondlife

Creating an alpha channel on Photoshop allows images to be turned into textures which can be seen through on Secondlife.  Eg. an alpha channel can be used as textures such as a mesh layer or a ballustrade.

This is an image of an example of an alpha channel used in my virtual library.  I have used it as a ballustrade. 

texture used as an alpha channel