Today I added a new "exhibit" to the underwater kingdom!
What is it? Extracting GFP from a jellyfish and putting it in a
bacteria, which then glows green.
How do you do it? Simply click the jellyfish to receive the protein.
Then, open the inventory of the bacteria, put the GFP inside, click on
it and watch it glow!
Why would I do this? This will help people get used to using the SL
inventory system because it will be required in the lab portion of our
island. At the same time, it will be a visual representation of how
cool it is to extract this stuff from animals and put it to use in
bacteria.
Problems: Once I put the GFP inside the glowing bacteria stays like
that. I've been using a sleep script for it to turn off but that
doesn't eliminate the original GFP in the inventory so if I left it
like this the GFP would build up inside. This would not be optimal, so
I've obtained a script from Katie (she also helped me with the
inventory script) to delete the protein inside. I hope to get this
working by tomorrow.
In other news, I brainstormed a few pathways for the Synthetic Kingdom
so people don't get lost and wonder around like Brownian motion. I
also visited other islands in order to get an idea of how to structure
the Help Island the people who come to our sim teleport on. Soon, I
will have a rough draft of the narrative and path people follow (the
only thing I have decided on is glowing platforms. They are
ESSENTIAL).
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