All of the broken links in GE have been fixed. Sometimes the tours work, other times I still get jettisoned. It still crashes a lot more than I think it should on my machine, but seems to not act up as much on Tony's. I still don't feel there is enough interaction, and I should probably edit some more video to add into the experience. But it's difficult to want to add more to GE El Cerrito when I know that this is going to be a much better experience in Second Life. As a proof of concept, I believe we have enough for the Google Earth portion of this project now, and I am going to start working on the Second Life portion of this. As I begin to add additional video and interactivity in SL, I will also add it to the KMZ file for Google Earth when possible. That being said, somebody should go back and check my work to make sure that my lack of knowledge is not what is limiting the GE experience. For instance, did I model the buildings efficiently enough so that they would look good but not take up so much memory? Could I have written better code for the info balloons? Etc.
So, I have passed off this part of the project to Tony. He is more of a coder than I am (although not very familiar with Google Earth and kmz or kml), and I think he will be able to look at the code and fix some of the things that have been bugging me. I leave Google Earth El Cerrito in his hands. Now I am ready to concentrate on the Second Life build.
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