Timesheet's

Hey guys,

I've just been formatting the timesheets (everyone's pages) and removing empty rows, to reduce the amount of rows in each team members sheet (easier to read)

Just noticed some people are a little behind (Dylan....)

You should have got the timesheets up to date to the 9th week (with this week being the 10th - including the 2 weeks break)

Keep on rolling!

yay for the internets

Hey guys, just letting you all know that charlynn's sent off our names to the IT guys and asked to triple our allowance thru to november 08.

She will get back to us when they fix it up

Website Back in Action

Hey Guys!

Just letting you know that the website is back in commission. Its working fine now. Apparently the problem was we had exceeded the quota for the account on velorum so they bumped it up a further 20mb. They also said if we require more space we can request it so that means we shouldnt have too many problems with velorum anymore....hopefully!!!

I will try and update the latest stuff as soon as i can.

Enjoy!!!!

Minutes 28/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 28/4/08

SHORT MEETING

AGENDA

• Discuss updates to the SPMP
• Talk about the video section of the Presentation

ABSENTEES - NIL

NOTES

• Help Charlynn move to new office
• Finish the parts of the presentation
• FRAPS for the video bit
• Each persons roles page
• updates to the SPMP to Dylan by monday 5th of may
• Guys involved in the video section of the presentation need to get that done tonight

ACTION

• Scan the updates to the SPMP and send to all team members
• Each team member then update your particular section by monday 5th may
• Finalize any updates to the SRS (Captions under the sections)
• Send Charlynn email with student numbers for the internet accounts

NEXT MEETING: - Thursday 9:30AM 1/5/08 - TEAM MEETING

Coding Standards

Thought this may be useful for any of our documentations - a reference at the least -
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coding_standard

Victory, woot woot!

On your knees, bow before me! For I have finally successfully exported from Max and imported into Second Life!

The trick is to cram those stupid sculpted textures, instead use scripting.

Custom Max scripts downloaded off the net allow you to create a big range of sculpties inside of 3DS Max, then just change a few parameters, export them to a text file, then (using an importer from a second life user called Thraxis) just after a few copy n pastes and click n drags it builds itself right before your eyes.

This website explains it all

http://verwijs.wordpress.com/


















There's no stoppin us now.

Second Life, I just made you my bitch!

Presentation Layer

Chaddy and I have divided the sections for the Presentation Layer outlined in the initial template for the SADD.

User Interface - Joel
Building Layout - Chaddy
Prototype Sketches - Chaddy
Elaborated Storyboards - We each elaborate our own storyboards which we made for the SRS
Medical Equipment Sketches - On Monday, we will review the Case Study and pick out all of the equipment mentioned. Then we will divide them evenly.
Prototype 3D Models - Joel

Minutes 21/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 21/4/08

TEAM MEETING

AGENDA

• Talk about how we are doing the Pressentation
• Look at the marking sheets for both SADD and Presentation

ABSENTEES - NIL

NOTES

• Add captions to diagrams to explain all the diagram in the SRS
• For the the presentation talk about
• Team processes & communication management
• Luke
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Each person do their own roles (Everyone)
• Profile of Client/Users
• Ben
• Analysis of Requirements and preposed solution
• Luke
• Prototype (Video - Dylan)
• Creating an object
• Joel (David talk about during the presentation)
• Adding a script to that object (refer to Case study)
• Matt (Ben talk about the presentation)
• Also a video of any user using object
• Different Camera angles
• Need to do a run through on thursday week 8 of the presentation
• Thursday this week sort out the the video section this thursday
• Look at the marking sheet for the SADD
• Make the SADD draft due on end of week 10

ACTION

• Done for next Monday
• Captions for the diagrams in SRS
• Other proposed changes for the SPMP
• Thursday of next week
• Run through of the Presentation during the Team meeting (see above for the section of the of presentation that need to be completed by you)
• Due end of week 10
• Draft of the SADD

NEXT MEETING: - MONDAY (After Lecture) 28/4/08 - SHORT MEETING

Important Marking Guides

Please view these links and sign your name off (leave a comment with your name) -
and please assure you enter the appropriate material in your assigned sections for the SADD. We'll talk about the presentaion on Monday.

http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/units/itmsprojects/Marking%20Sheet%20%20CP783%20Project%20%201%20%202008%20%20SADD%20%20Document.doc

http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/units/itmsprojects/Marking%20Sheet%20CP783%20Project%201%20Presentation.doc

Minutes 17/4/08 in Second Life

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 17/4/08

MEETING IN SECOND LIFE

AGENDA

• Find suitable land for the Project
• Must be in a suitable area with a PG rating
• Play around with Prims and Scripts

ABSENTEES - NIL

NOTES

• Most of the time was spent on getting the Second Life to run
• Lots of the guys had trouble with their clients
• A lesson for future work and meeting in Second Life
• We did manage to get everyone together for about half an hour
• In that time we have added everyone to the "critical life" group in preparation for land ownership
• We discovered that the voice chat feature of Second Life works very well, even with comparably slower net connection
• With all the problems going on with the SL client, we didn't manage to find any land
• So we need everyone to continue to look for suitable land in SL over the weekend

ACTION

• Continue to look for suitable land in SL
• Must have a PG rating to comply with the University's standards
• Also each team member needs to spend some more time in SL, tweaking their settings
• In order that we don't run into the same problems with the SL client on the team members computers that we've had on this occasion

NEXT MEETING: - Monday (After Lecture) 21/4/08 - SHORT MEETING

URGENT!!!

spoke with Charylnn -we have the money BUT we can't find any suitable land. Tonights mission may include us looking for appropriate land. (PG rated - not XXX as I request.... nurses......mmm)
See you tonight 8pm on second life.

Minutes 17/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 17/4/08

TEAM MEETING

AGENDA

• Discuss the SADD
• Talk about the meeting in Second Life
  

ABSENTEES - David

NOTES

• Everyone get start their section of the SADD
  

• People are doing in the SADD
• Ben
  
• Data Layer
• Matt
• Application Logic Layer
  
• Dylan
• Introduction and System Overview
• Joel & David (decide between each other how to split it up)
• Presentation Layer
• Luke
• System Architecture & Solution Design Document (LOG)
  
• Videos to introduce each of the week's scenarios
• FRAPS from first person in Second Life to produce the intro videos
• Dylan
• Traceability Matrix (look at the lecture notes)
• Luke
• Update the Gantt chart
• Remember to go on to Second Life tonight 8PM
• Make sure everyone joins the group, and add each other as friends
• Meet at ABC island (the tower)

ACTION

• Dylan
  
• Copy the section 6 (data layer) from the logs to the SADD
• Everyone check above in the Notes to see what you need to do
• Start your section from the SADD
• Meet up in Second Life tonight 8PM tonight
  

NEXT MEETING: - Thursday 8:00PM 17/4/08 - MEETING IN SECOND LIFE

SADD

If we can have the SADD section outlines which we discussed today to Dylan by our next meeting on thursday (so wed night for dylans sake) we can get started on this doc.

Also these links may be helpful from todays discussion -
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_architecture

We'll discuss more about our second life shinadigans on thursday.

Minutes 14/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 14/4/08

SHORT MEETING

AGENDA

• Discuss the SADD
• Address the uploading of the minutes to the website
• Decide a common time to meet up in Second Life as a team
• Reminder about the Traceability Matrix for Dylan

ABSENTEES - NIL

NOTES

• Need to get the headings for the sections of the SADD done and send to Dylan
• So that he can get the Backbone of the Document right
• We need to get the minutes uploaded directly on the website
• Ben will use the publish function of google docs to give each minutes a URL - then just link to the site (no need to upload to the site)
• We will meet up in Second Life as a team to play around in the ABC sandbox on this Thursday at 8PM
• Need to create a group for our team in Second Life (called Critical Life)
• Then when the land is purchased, the University can add the group as admins and we will be able to build on the land
• Dylan needs to look into creating a Traceability Matrix document (he missed last week's meeting)

ACTION

• Meeting up in Second Life at the ABC island this Thursday at 8PM
• Use the blog to get our SL names and add each team member to your friends in Second Life
• Dylan
• Use the SRS lecture notes to find out exactly what the traceability matrix is, and start creating it
• Need to email the headings of the sections assigned to Dylan ASAP
• Dylan
• First 2 sections
• Luke
• Data Layer
• Joel (& David)
• Presentation Layer
• Ben (& Matt)
• Logic Layer
• Ben needs to publish each of the meeting minutes so that we can link directly to the website

NEXT MEETING: - Thursday 9:30AM 17/4/08 - TEAM MEETING

Team Members Second Life Names

Hey guys edit this post to add your second life name, so we can find each other in Second Life

Luke: rogers1986 Clip
Ben: Bennbill Benoir
Matt: MattyUB Ember
Chaddy: Chaddy Checchinato
Joel: Archie Trenkins
Dylan: Pun Pelous

Thanks

Minutes 10/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 10/4/08

TEAM MEETING

AGENDA

• Look at what needs to be changed for the SRS
• To address the changes from the client meeting yesterday
• Also decide what to do first on the SADD

ABSENTEES - NIL

NOTES

• What needs to be changed/added to the SRS
• Need Client sign off
• Dylan
• Need to add David's Sequence diagrams (screen dump)
• David
• Need to add a context diagram of the system
• Joel & Ben
• Need to make minor changes to the Use Cases so they are more in line with the storyboards
• Ben
• Also need to fix the indentation the headings
• Dylan
• Dylan needs to add to headings that have nothing under them as yet
• Dylan
• Joel needs some Lindens so that he can test out his 3dxmax addon for second life
• Dylan was going to send him some
• Make sure we always send any documents created (in the end by Dylan) to Matt so that he can upload them to the website
• We decided to look at the SADD and come up with relevant headings under the sections given out on last Mondays meeting

ACTION

Need to have all changes detailed above to Dylan tonight
• So we can hand in the document (hard copy) tomorrow
Come up with the headings for your part of the SADD by next mondays meeting
Get Joel some Lindens so he can upload some stuff
Get some LAND!
Always remember to send the documents to Matt for upload to website

NEXT MEETING: - Monday (After Lecture) 14/4/08 - SHORT MEETING

Minutes 9/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 9/4/08

CLIENT MEETING

AGENDA

• Look at the SRS First Draft
• Requires feedback from the Client before we can make revisions
• Especially the system requirements
• Also have questions for the client pertaining to specific details in the case study we are adapting

ABSENTEES - Cecil (Client), Charlynn (Supervisor)

NOTES

• Do we need a cut off point, for logging into the scenario
• Yes, we don't want students logging in halfway through the scenario
• We do want other students to be able to observe from outside
• New optional requirement is to have an observer window so students not part of the team in the scenario can watch what's going on from the outside

• Blake suggested that we downgrade the requirement of a tracking log (that the admin could look at later) to a optional requirement
• He suggested that it would be hard to read, and therefore not useful enough to be essential
• The client was concerned about how we will managed the accounts of students in Second Life
• It is too restrictive to make accounts and then hand them out to students
• And end if we did they would still be able to change their and appearance and so on...
• we suggested that it would be more useful to us if they went away and created their own login to Second Life specifically for this Uni stuff
• that way they will be taken to the orientation island when they first login and will be able to a grasp of how to use Second Life
• if students want to enjoy the many weird and wonderful things of Second Life they should create a seperate account so as not to break the university's term of use to do with computers
• we would spell that out to them before they went and used Second Life
• The client also brought up the pause function and who will have control when someone in the team pauses the simulation
• Blake suggested that we make a pauses have a time limit of 3 minutes
• This will give the students enough time to collaborate with each other
• We also need to get contact from Horsham campus
• So that when we have a testable product we can test it at Horsham to be certain that it works adquately

ACTION

• At tomorrow's team meeting we will discuss the changes that we need to make to the SRS document due to this meeting
• One of the client party is going to Horsham tomorrow and will send us details of the contact we need from there
• Blake is going to send us the soft copy of all the Case Study stuff, so that we can use it in our documents
• We need to send the details of what we need to Sita so that she can help Charlynn to get those needs met

NEXT MEETING: - Thursday 9:30AM 10/4/08 - TEAM MEETING

Uploading files into Second Life

Has anyone found a way to upload external files into a user's inventory?

Last night I created some custom 3D objects in 3DS Max and exported them using the Second Life Export program I downloaded off the Internet. But the only upload option in Second Life I could find was that Bulk Upload which costs $L10.

Surely there's a free option for uploading just one file.

Remember to Update your Timesheets!

Hi guys,

Just reminding you all to update your timesheets for the work you completed during the lecture break.

Thanks guys, Keep up the good work!

Minutes 7/4/08

TEAM CRITICAL LIFE – Minutes 7/4/08

SHORT MEETING

AGENDA

• Decide what needs to done this week
• Reminder: Client meeting on Wednesday this week
• Look at the SADD (and other design documents)

ABSENTEES - Dylan

NOTES

• We really need Charlyn to get our Land, so that we can get working on our prototyping
• The SRS document (draft) will need to be revised
• This week's Client meeting will determine what needs to be changed and fixed throuighout the document. The Client needs to be happy with what is stated as required in this document, before they sign off on it
• We need to start looking at the design documents (SADD)
• We also need to start a Traceability Matrix (document)
• So we can forward trace and back trace between our user requirements -- functional requirements -- design modules -- testing cells
• Great work during the holidays has given us a great start
• thanks to the SRS first draft already handed in and revisions are underway
• We decided to handout sections to complete from the SADD document
• WE REALLLY NEED LAND NOW!!

ACTION

• We need land
• Pester Charlyn some more!
• Dylan
• Needs to get a Traceability Matrix Document set up
• The designated sections of the SADD are as follows (from the TOM time document)
• Dylan
• 1. Introduction
• 2. System Overview
• Luke
• Design Descisions Log?
• 3. System Architecture
• David & Joel
• 4. Presentation Layer
• Ben & Matt
• 5. Applicaiton Logic Layer
• Software Engineers
• 6. Data Layer
• REMEMBER:
• This week wednesday 9:30AM Client meeting in C004
• Wear smart clothes!
• Lastly
• We really do need land as soon as possible!

NEXT MEETING: - Wednesday 9:30AM 9/4/08 - CLIENT MEETING