Counseling+Center

**University of Cincinnati Counseling Center**

 * Overview:** The Counseling Center is a professional counseling office within Student Affairs and Services. We provide counseling, outreach programs, and related services for UC students and those concerned about their welfare. We help students address and resolve personal issues so that they can make the most of their educational opportunities at the university.


 * Website:** http://www.uc.edu/sas/counseling/
 * Phone:** 556-0648
 * SLurl:**

**Second Life Goals:**
Develop a virtual representation of Counseling Center to extend the opportunities for outreach and engagement with the university community and UC students. The Counseling Center in Second Life should compliment and enhance their website, but not duplicate the information found there - rather, the virtual center should take advantage of the unique affordances of Second Life to offer engaging experiences that help students make the most of their educational opportunities at the university.


 * Preliminary Design Notes:**

**Project Contacts:**

 * UC Counseling Center Project Lead**: Nzingha Dalila

Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque) Josh Butler (SL: Axel Gedenspire) Long Vu (SL: Long Arrowmint)
 * UC Second Life Project Lead:** Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) ~ secondlife@uc.edu ~ 556-8562

Administrative Access:
UC Administrative Account (SL: UCSLLandMgr Treves) Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque)
 * Land Managers**

Owner Role** UC Administrative Account (SL: UCSLLandMgr Treves) Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque)
 * Group Managers - UC Counseling Center

Long Vu (SL: Long Arrowmint) Josh Butler (SL: Axel Gedenspire) Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz)
 * Officer Role**


 * Progress:**

12/29/09 - Building is in its permanent location near the student apartments (west), landscaped with trees and flowers, added nameplates and signage.









12/23/09 - Finished the texturing and stretching the brick textures to appropriate width/height, need to place building and do landscaping.

12/21/09 - Using similar brick texture to blend well with campus, and dark grey/red accents and moldings to go with the UC color scheme.

12/17/09 - Completed modifications of the building structure, need to finalize textures.

12/16/09 Today I made 3 different test versions for the poseball. Of those tests, I leaned something the hard way: eveyone's avatar is different. I still can't believe I missed that. In Poser the animation looks perfect. But when played in SL using an avatar of different proportions it turns out slightly different, but only slightly. Nonetheless, I have put more changes in Poser and should look better now. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

12/14/09 - I talked to Chris this morning and finally got our hands on a poseball that links multiple animations together. I tested it out with an animation had and it looked liked the picture below. Other than a few tweaks to the Poser figure an Poseball script, I should be able to get some working animations in Second Life.

12/11/09 - I'm back from climbing out of the deep abyss that is school! Time to get back to work. Had a meeting with everybody and Chris said she had a PoseBall that I could look at. More on that Later. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/25/09 - Discussed and fixed some problems with the animations with Chris. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/23/09 - Found a few people who do animations for Second Life. Emailed the best one to Chris to see what she thinks. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/20/09 - Meeting with everybody. Talked about how to find people that do animations. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/18/09 - Still looking for animations scripts. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/16/09 - Continuing my search on how to script multiple animation. So far I have only found scripts that use one at a time. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz)

11/13/09 - Its Friday! And today I searched, and searched, and searched some more for ways to combine multiple animations into a poseball, but to no avail. The scripting part is really hard to understand. I eventually gave up and started working on Poser again (no picture today though, sorry). - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/09/09 - Had a short talk with Chris today to see how things are moving. The meditation animation for Second Life is moving along. Completed another two animations. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/06/09 - The Challenge is rolling along. I need some rest. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/04/09 - Okay so I have given myself the challenge of finishing the animations before the end of next week. And by next week I mean the next 4 work days. Its going to go down these next 4 days so be prepared. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

11/02/09 - With all this Halloween candy in me, I feel like I have a lot of held up energy inside me. I used this energy on Poser in hopes of defeating it once and for all. Needless to say, Poser hadn't a chance and lots (and lots) of progress was made. Thanks Halloween candy, you're the best! - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/30/09 - I think Poser is working me now. Took part in POC-CENT meeting. Happy Halloween! - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/28/09 - Met with Chris today. Again, more work in Poser. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/26/09 - More work in Poser. I am also researching on how to link multiple poses into a poseball. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/23/09 - Started working on Poser again. As always, its tedious work. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/21/09 - Put more placeholders in the building. Specifically the 'meditation area'; I put down circles to represent pads. I also emailed Nzingha to meet with me to talk more about the building. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) -6 hr

10/19/09 - Put placeholders and few finishing touches on the building. I will do work inside the two meditation rooms next. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/16/09 - Put some place holders in the building. I couldn't do much work today due to the conference. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/14/09 - Back after being sick with the Flu. Started getting to work on making the smaller Center. Here is a picture of what I've done so far.- Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/07/09 - I was informed that the currently planed parcel for the building was too small. Also, I was told that a decision on two different size parcels is yet to be made. At any rate I will have to scale to building down. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/05/09 - I put some walls, places holders, and a general texture on the building - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

10/02/09 - Sent an email to Nzingha today. The first building design was too boring so I decided to make another one. Sketched it out and put it in SL. Here is a picture of what I have so far. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr

9/30/09 - Sketched first draft on the SL counseling Center and begun building it in SL. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 1 hr

9/30/09 - Uploaded another picture of me working in Poser. I am currently making 30 second (900 frames) animations so I can put them together in SL. - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - Time: forever, and ever, and ever.

9/28/09 - Uploaded a picture of the 30 second Alpha build being played in Second Life - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 10 min

9/28/09 - Getting Poser to work and meeting with Chris - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 3 hr

9/--/09 - Hit the 2 minute mark in Poser. Figuring out how to script Poseballs - Alex Davis (Alex09 Danitz) - 6 hr