Class Details
This is the proposed class schedule for the next 12 weeks of the topics that I plan to cover in classes.
This list is subject to changes based on feedback from class participants and time availability; I would rather spend the extra time to answer your questions and repeat any class tasks until you are satisfied that you have learned a new building skill rather that rush through subject material in order to keep to this schedule.
I will be sending out a weekly notice to all group members to advise of each upcoming class, dates, times, topics to be covered. Any last minute changes will be advised through the Group Messages.
Don't forget to join the Let's Start Building group so that you can receive all the latest class notices and group information
- Class 1: Introduction to Building
- How to rez a prim
- Move a Prim: Position, Rotate, Stretch
- Take or Delete Prim
- Class 2: Texture and Colour Prims
- Add texture to whole prim
- Add colour to whole prim
- Class Project: One Prim Torus Table Lamp
- Class 3: Working With Multiple Prims
- Copy Prim via Shift-Drag method
- Link and Unlink Prims, Root Prim
- Edit Linked Prims
- Class Project: Make a Simple Coffee Table
- Class 4: Use Grid Rulers to Position Prims
- Use the Grid Fred!
- Adjust Grid Options
- World Ruler Modes
- 2D Grid Overview
- Class Project: Shiny Red Heart
- Test Your Skills: Gift Boxes
- Here's your chance to use all the skills we have learnt in the previous 4 Classes
- fun Project: Pretty gift boxes with Ribbons and Bows
- Prim Play: Play with prims as we make some one-prim objects
- Box: Picture Frame
- Torus: Curly Ribbon
- Sphere: Twisted Sculpture
- Tube: Dining Table
- Torus: Cushion
- Sphere: Leaf
- Class 5: Working With Transparent Prims
- Select By Surrounding
- Highlight Transparent
- Phantom Prims
- 3D effects when making plants
- Class project: Make a Pot of Flowers
- Class 6: Flexi Prims
- Add Flexi Features to Prim
- Class project: Make a Flexi Flag
- Class 7: Let There Be Light
- Add Light features to Prims
- Class project: Asian Styled Lantern
- Class 8: Advanced Texture Techniques
- Apply texture to a single surface
- Repeats per Face
- Rotate Texture
- Texture Offset
- Working with Transparent Textures
- Class Project: Textured Lamp with Light Switch
- Test Your Skills:Skill Project 2
- Another mid-term project to practice your building skills
- Project details to be determined.
- Class 9: Introduction to Sculpted Prims
- What is a Sculpty?
- All about Texture Maps
- How to tell a Texture Map from a regular Texture
- Making sculpted prims
- Class Project: Make a Sculpted Platter of Fruit
- Class 10: Adding Scripts to Prims
- The non-coders introduction to Scripts
- How to re-use scripts
- Set Text Script
- Give Notecard Script
- Animate Texture Script
- Class project: Water Fountain
- Class 11: Modular Building Tricks
- Shift-Copy is your friend
- Ctrl+Z is your BEST friend
- Create complex designs with simple patterns
- Class Project: Spiral Staircase
- Class 12: Playing With Particles
- Particle Textures
- Particle Scripts
- Tinkering with Particle Script Settings
- Class Project: Make a Lava Lamp
- Class 13: Putting It All Together
- Class Project: Build a Modern Water Fountain
- Skills used: Rez prims (Class 1), Modify Prims (Class 1 and 11), Shift-Copy (class 3), add light (Class 7), Select Texture (Class 8), Animate Textures (Class 10), Add Scripts (Class 10), Link it all together (Class 3).