ArthurFermi's blog

We help create the builders, scripters, texture designers, business owners, shop owners, shoppers, escorts, and everything else.  Of course I’m not saying everyone is helped by an educator, but many are.  I am not going to talk about everyone else, cause I run Fermi Sandbox and University, and we partner with SL Learning Centre to get our classes out.  The partnership is new, in the past we did our own classes.  There are really two types of educators in SL, those who teach RL things using SL as a medium and those who teach SL things.  Most major schools, they teach RL things to their students, it’s also a marketing thing for them.  Now for the rest of us, we teach people how to get by in SL, let me list some of the classes that have been given by Fermi Sandbox and University.
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Griefer - grief·er

Noun

A griefer is a slang term used to describe a player in a multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Griefing is a malignant form of emergent gameplay.

What is a Griefer

Griefers, are really people that are generally out to have fun by refusing to play the game as it was designed and having fun the expense of others, now that is not true of all griefers, some have political agendas. I am not going to answer if it is right or wrong or the agendas are real, or correct, that is not the point of this article. Based on my observation there are several types of griefers that come to the sandbox, below is my description of them. These are very generalized observations. { Read more }

Kai and I are happy to announce that JeZeBeLe Dagger accepted the position of University Coordinator. She is currently developing a Leadership Council that will be detailed soon. Currently until things are all in place, things run as they have been however, questions should go through JeZ. Please take the time to welcome her. Kai and I are very grateful that Jez has taken on this responsibility.

This is from one of the Fermi University instructors, it is also posted on the fermidesigns.com web site.

For those who still having trouble to align a prim, it’s this weeks tip :)
1. Edit the prim (be sure Use Grid is selected as option)
2. Press your CTRL key
3. Click and hold the button on one of the axiles (red, green or blue circle)
4. Drag your cursor while still holding the mousebutton to the outer circle (with Up, Down, South and North on it)
5. As you notice the prim quickly aligns using the grid

I have attached an image allowing you to see these steps.

~ Happy Building ~
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Arthur Fermi
Fermi Sandbox & University

This amazing build was in the sandbox today, and it is amazing to see in motion! I had a brief time to talk to Maklin Deckard today while he was packaging this up. The gears are all sculpties, and all mesh, the planets rotate at proportional speeds to each other. It is simply amazing to see in motion. There are pictures on the Fermi Designs web site. Once there if you mouse over the sandbox menu you will see cool builds, click on that for pictures.

Was the message on my IM from VirtualVictoria Vale, such a sad sight when you see words like that. I'm really at a loss of what to say, she always had time for me, answered my questions, we use her tutorials in fermi sandbox. She will be hugely missed by many, but by none more than her loved ones in RL.

Pleae visit the memorial on her sim Dreams http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dreams%20Events/151/76/25, donate waht you can and keep her sandbox open.

Arthur

Today Day Oh released new mega prims. These are not the cut and hacked ones, they are newly created! The first set the .5 series is perfect for those parcel sized builds like in Fermi Sandbox. They are free, and over 2000 in the first box are available here http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=685589

This is huge, and was first reported by Lillie Yifu.