‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]”* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )

*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html

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Saving Your Self

     A. Saving your Avatar in your Inventory

B. Changing your Clothes

C. Restoring the Old You

A. Saving your Avatar in your Inventory: Working with “Outfits”

By now you are familiar with what an avatar is. We are now going to have you change the appearance of your avatar. Before we do that, we want you to save your current avatar.

We will practice saving our current avatar, changing our avatar, then restoring our previous avatar.

1. Right Click (open Apple+click) on your Avatar.

2. Select Appearance from the pie-menu. This will open the Appearance menu and turn your avatar around

3. Click “Make Outfit” at the bottom of the Appearance menu. Making an Outfit makes a new folder in your Inventory and saves copies of the items you are now wearing into it.

4. Type in a Folder Name: use today’s date or name your outfit

5. Check the boxes of items to include: Shape, Skin, Hair, Eyes, etc.

6. Click Save. Check your Inventory under the Clothes folder to see if your new outfit folder is there.

Note: If your Clothes Inventory is messy, you can clean it up by dragging unwanted items to the Trash bin which is at the bottom of the Inventory menu.

B. Making a New Outfit

You can get a new outfit by opening your Inventory and scrolling down past the Trash can to Library. Here you can open to the Clothes folder and try on different items, outfits, and objects.

You can also make your own outfit by going to the Appearance menu and clicking on Clothes items on the far left menu. You should have the option to Create a New ____.

To remove clothes or objects

In the Appearance menu there is a ‘Take Off” option that allows you to remove clothing you just put on.

Sometimes you might have to remove clothes or objects from the pie menu when you right-click on your Avatar. Right-click on your avatar and click “Take Off’. You can either remove articles of Clothing or “Detach” objects from your body.

C. Restoring your previous clothes

To switch to your old Outfit simply go to your Inventory and drag the folder you made earlier (Step A) to your Avatar.

Note: This will only change the clothes on the Avatar. If you have changed the Avatar’s body or face, those changes will not go back.

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