Holodeck: first steps at production

As part of the Muvenation project Marga has done a deal with Loki Clifton of Inside This World Pty Ltd that Muvenation participants can try out their holodecks. Part of the deal is that we blog about the experience, which is fine since I would blog anyway.

I have the task of trying this out and producing tutorial material. This will be interesting to the LLL3D project so I'll cross post my experiences there as well. This is the notes of my first experiences.

I've already got a Simple Holodeck and have blogged about that.The ones that are part of the deal are the upmarket 2 in 1 Production Holodecks. I spent some time reading about the holodecks and i have one big worry, it says at the end of the user guide:

"Interference

Adjacent 2in1 Holodecks will not interfere with each other if each is centrally located on a 2048 or a 4096 block. However, adjacent 1024 blocks with 2in1 Holodecks WILL interfere with each other so our recommendation is to purchase a larger block or live next to people that think Holodecks are STUPID. We will not get involved in disputes between neighbours."

I am concerned that on Muvenation island theparticipants will be too close and there will be interferance, I suspect this is due to the channels that are hard-coded into the scripts - but as I can't access the code of the scripts I am not certain. I've mailed Loki to find out if my concerns are real but not had an answer.

Marga gave me a Gift Certificate for a holodeck which I redeemed. I spent an hour in a sandbox unpacking it - chatting to people passing by with queries and trying to follow the instructions. Everything seemed to work but I couldn't get the menu to work, so I decided to give up. Inspiration cam to me afterwards and my editting of menus assumed menu items could be followed by a comment, and this is not the case, comments can be on new lines but not on a line with text!

So I have now re-rezzed the holodeck on to a SkyPlatform and made my first scene. It isn't very exciting - two chairs and a box, but it works.

I'm left with a challenge that I'm not quite sure as to how to answer - which is how to i take my newly editted holodeck back into my inventory? However I will leave that for another day.