Second Life - first building session

Last semester was my first introduction into Second Life via the "On the beach" project. Since then I have downloaded the new beta 2 version of SL and so far I like the look of the new interface, but to be fair I really didn't have time to get used to the old interface as I only went into SL a couple of times a week.


Today was my first attempt of building anything in SL, which I was feeling a tad aprehensive. The objective of this session was to build a spaceship following step-by-step instructions given to us by our course leader Alan Hudson.
The step-by-step instructions were easy to follow but the actual building I found terribly frustrating, especially as in order to build in this 3d virtual environment the ability to adjust the camera angles in order to view your object properly is a must! I initially spent most of my time under the water and trying to find my way back to my object! logically I realise that it will take practice ("just like learning to drive" as quoted by Alan).




My first object to build was a spaceship. I started off by building a control box and then placing buttons within the box, these buttons had script attached to them that when clicked on the spaceship would move up/down and backwards/forwards, which did work and the sense of achievment was great!