A decade ago, information about Second Life® was scarce. Newbies would drop into a Brave New World and get completely confused. There were in-world volunteers — and the Linden Liaisons — to help you out, but often it was hard to assemble a lot of information to get you going. […]
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The year was, oh, perhaps 2009 or so. In the middle of all the excitement about virtual worlds in general and Second Life® in particular, professional 3D designers were raising eyebrows at a new opportunity to sell their content. A virtual world with a million regular users who were engaged […]
Recently I was “forced” (in the good sense of the word!) to get back to work on Beta Technologies’ own OpenSimulator mini-grid. It usually remains pretty much empty (and open to attacks from, uh, “visitors”) most of the time, ready to be used when something comes up — like a […]
Since many of you search this blog for beginner’s guides and similar information, I’m leaving here a few links that hopefully will help you on your first steps in Second Life®. Torley Linden has designed a wonderful Second Life QuickStart Guide which you can download from Amazon.com S3. And I […]
Well… almost! Ariane Brodie has a long list of all the kinds of tips that you would love to have had when you joined the Second Life® virtual world for the first time — from avatar settings, to free skins, to dozens of scripting tips for most things, and to […]
I’ve just been pointed to this nice sharing tool, a way to share PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice presentations via the web. I’ve just shared most of my presentations vaguely related to the Second Life® environment and platform, and, who knows, some might be useful to you.
Well, here it is. After two days of getting the open source code from Linden Lab to compile under XCode, I’ve managed to raise up to Zen Linden’s challenge and compiled the WindLight First Look Viewer for my Mac. Zen Linden hinted that the next version of the WindLight FL […]
This started as a “joke” between Mentors (volunteers in Second Life that are willing to spend some time with new users and answer their questions…), but soon it became a FAQ of its own. Yes, most of these are indeed “first ever questions” that almost everybody starts to ask as […]
==========================Franimation Overrider v1.7Copyright (C) 2004 Francis ChungDocumentation by Gwyneth Llewyn and Kex Godel Wet Ikon Distribution========================== Welcome to the wonderful world of animation overriding! We hope that you enjoy this open source product. Please note that although this object allows you full technical permissions, you must still abide by the […]
Update: the 3rd edition of this Guide is now available for free as an ePub. Here the text for the 2nd edition: Welcome to Second Life! Welcome to Second Life! For all of you just starting, I hope you have lots of fun in this virtual world! My name is […]