VSTE building Institute Day 1

We had a guest builder lined up for July who was going to teach us to use sculpties to create new avatars for ourselves. I was really looking forward to it. The builder is a really fun character himself, and though, sometimes inappropriate, always entertaining. During our team meeting when he talked to us about what he would like to do, he walked on our board room table like it was a runway. He's just a hoot! Sadly was unable to participate in the project and backed out just days before it was to take place. Mandie got Kip (Pikskate in SL) to rescue us! Because he has class on Mondays he could only build with us on Wednesdays. So Mandie decided to create a four day building institute. She would help members create something that would use skills similar to the ones Pikskate would need from us on Wednesdays. This was the first day. We created what looked like two trees on one prim. We learned that a prim can be manipulated to form a flat right angle and a transparent texture can make one side of a prim invisible. Handy to know.