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[LAND] Grid, Estate, Region, Parcel… what’s da difference?
One of the most common confusions about Second Life I come across is distinguishing between land hierarchy terms. As in: "What's the difference between a region and an estate?" "Are a region and a sim the same thing?"* Totally understandable.
Ever seen the brilliant short, Powers of Ten? I highly recommend watching it, if only to get an awe-inspiring idea of our real world fits together, and how bigger groups contain smaller units.
In a similar way, since Second Life is 3D and graphical, I thought I'd show you an elegant, visual "cheat sheet" of our land hierarchy. Click to enlarge (or right-click and download), and
...SLRP Vol 1 Issue No. 2 is out
Check out the latest issue of SLRP magazine Volume 1 Issue No 2. Inside there are plenty of pictures for two great looking sims, Bleach Reborn and New Wonderland. If you enjoy the sights, make sure you pay these sims a visit. You will not be disappointed.
[CULTURE] Lark of the Covenant
At our last Documentation Team office hours — which are actually a lot more casual and fun than the name implies — the topic of covenants came up. You can read the whole transcript.
A covenant is the terms & conditions set by a private estate owner (and sometimes contributed to by estate managers and others) for land renters. Zoning/theming codes, payment info, and naturally, appropriate behavior are found in covenants. And ah yes, not unlike like dating, both parties who enter into such a relationship must mutually agree. Covenants have also conveniently and creatively applied to any Resident who enters an estate, such as roleplaying regions.
Since Linden Lab can't blanket all
...[BLOG TIPS] Google for easier searching! See your recent activity!
Some of you have been calling blogs.secondlife.com a veritable "flog", and I suspect this is not just a portmanteau of forum + blog! Fear not, one need not get all Bob Flanagan just because ye can't find something in seconds. There's GOT to be a better way!
So okay, there is…
How do I search easier?If you're confused by blogs.secondlife.com's own search, you can use Google to do a site-specific search. This works for just about any domain. Here's how:
Go to Google. In the big search box, type "site:blogs.secondlife.com topic" and replace "topic". For example, "site:blogs.secondlife.com "dance animations"". See a demo. Click Google Search.Now then, a related question… what about all those times
...[BASICS] Opening boxes so you can use the stuff (like clothes) inside
It's one of the most important Second Life basics which almost every Resident comes across sooner or later, often asked as:
I bought something on Xstreet but all I got was a box! What gives? I have a box with clothes, how do I wear the clothes instead of the box? I know how to open a box, but where do I find a place to rez it?Fret not! Just check out our fantalicious…
Opening boxes pageand within minutes, you'll be opening those boxes like — well, I was going to make a Tiger Woods reference but I think you get the point.
Even if you know how to open a box, you may have
...[FUN] Awesomize your profile with Unicode and ASCII art
I regularly cruise SL Answers looking for topics of practical and eclectic intrigue. Some subjects deserve wider attention because they're such a hot part of our Second Life culture. For instance, have you ever browsed other Residents' profiles and your jaw dropped with amazement because they somehow got fancy, arty symbols amidst all the text? Or arranged a bunch of glyphs into floral swirls or a kitten? Here're many awesome examples!
...
How to: Take High Quality Second Life Snapshots for Your Blog
Ever since I stumbled onto Krissy Muggleston’s blog a few months ago, we’ve been trading ideas and inspirations back and forth. She recently asked me to provide some input on how I place high quality images on my blog. I wrote up a notecard which has been requested by a few others.
I’m sharing an expanded version here just in case it helps some other fabulous people. You may know much or all of this already, so if you want to add more knowledge to the pile, leave a comment and share your own love! P.S. Don’t judge against the quality of the images in this post; I used an external program to capture them.
Getting StartedLet’s assume
...Blogging Tips & Suggestions
In a recent plurk I asked for some suggestions for new bloggers (and us oldies!). Here’s just some of the suggestions: Amount of Blog Posts It seemed that it was the group’s agreement that the average number of blog posts is, on average, 7-10 for the week. Of course there could always be a week that has several events or a few major releases from several designers. This 7-10 posts per week is a good rule of thumb. Zoe Demar shared the idea of creating a flickr account and blog only the favorite pictures. Flickr can host many of the photos of those that just don’t make it into blog posts or even to post there instead. Sharing all the outfit details and ...[VIDEOS] Planes, pipe organs, & primstars oh my!
I get cool stuff in my inbox everyday — both about content IN Second Life and ABOUT Second Life. The three Resident-created videos I'm presenting are a mix of both, so I hope they'll open your eyes, ears, and possibly other senses to your creative exploration in our favorite virtual world!
Airplane tutorialFirst up, ever wonder how to fly an airplane? Trent Denja shares a video tutorial with charming narration and showing one way you do just that. He also touches on VICE (Vehicle and Infantry Combat Environment) and covers things to watch out for, like Region crossings. I frequently hear Lindens admire how resourceful ingenuity surpasses the initially conceived design of the world:
...[XSTREET] RSS feeds make shopping updates easy
While it's 2010 and real-world flying cars aren't as abundant as Second Life's, there's no shortage of news to keep up with. Dataglut — OMG TOO MUCH STUFF TO KNOW! — can be stressful, and there's bound to be only some stuff that's really relevant to you. If you've made a resolution to manage your daily dosage of Internet, maybe this'll help.
We use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to stream assorted news & info to you. For example, on this very blog, you can subscribe via RSS so you automatically get updates; the links are on the front of blogs.secondlife.com! On our Facebook fan page, if you want to get the
...Bloggers Love FilterCam
Happy New Year!
We just wanted to take a few moments and share with you a couple of great reviews/tutorials that were blogged recently by Alicia Chenaux and SarahTheRed Aurbierre.
Follow the links to read these two fantastic posts:
From Ch’Know Style: FilterCam 2.0 is Ready!!
And from What? Another Fashion Blog?: Feature/Tutorial: MechanizedLife FilterCam
Thanks so much to Ali and Sarah for their support of FilterCam!
UPDATE: And here’s another good one from Shyayn Lusch’s The Digital Doll: CodeBastard Redgrave is Such a B!tch Thanks, Shy!
tips & tricks | turn on Anti-Aliasing inSL
[original size for better view -- left pic with jagged edges]
While scrolling down Gogo’s blog, I came across this entry that someone suggested Gogo heavily post-processed her photos. The person also says that white hair inSL always has pixelated edges… which is not true at all. Just look at Winter’s blog! I don’t see pixelized or jagged edges. About post-processing snapshots, I can only speak about my own which aren’t post-processed besides been lighten up. For this post, the images weren’t processed at all aside from being cropped and set side by side.
What happens when you see pixelized with jagged
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Tutorial: How to Hide Inconvenient Prims
Cajsa Lilliehook’s tutorial on how to hide prims to help improve inworld snapshots. Also, this is great for blogging if you don’t have access to photo editing software. Cajsa’s Tutorial Thank you Cajsa for sharing! If anyone else has links to share, feel free to find me inworld or on plurk.how to | clear cache in Second Life®
I’ve received this as a notecard in-world having Orange Planer as the creator. It’s a very helpful notecard since I’ve tried to explain a couple of time how to manually clear cache and it wasn’t clear to them. Maybe I wasn’t making myself clear enough. Anyway, if you do it right, you won’t damage your computer by manually clearing cache generated by Second Life® viewer.
You’ve lost inventory, a window has disappeared, the viewer is acting strangely, you can’t see particles. You’ve uninstalled Second Life and reinstalled, you’ve cleared your cache, you’ve tried going to the beta grid. Nothing’s worked.
There are a couple things left to try, neither of which you will hear from Linden Lab.
1) Manually clear the
...[TIP] Searching Wiki help pages and whatnot more effectively
Search is all about finding what you're looking for. I'm delighted that we've recently added Google search to our Wiki, which includes the Knowledge Base help files – it makes a lot of old pains moot, because while MediaWiki search has its benefits for the technically-savvy, I know a lot of people (like myself) were utterly confused. Enter Google, which apparently is pretty popular.
Even with Google, you can squeeze more search juice out of it, and I'm preparing a…
MIGHTY PAGE CONTAINING WIKI SEARCH TIPS!Currently explained:
Autocomplete How are the Go and Search buttons different? I'm still getting too many results and not what I'm looking for! How can I make pages easier ...Picture Ratio
Aspect Ratios is key for profile photos in Secondlife. To ensure you always have the correct sizes for your profile, here’s a quick and easy list:
If you’re making an image for…
• classifieds listing … use 10:7
• parcel snapshot … use 10:7 (But know that it will be stretched horizontally in people’s picks.)
• your own pick … use 16:9
• 2nd life profile … use 4:3
• 1st life profile … use 1:1
• group insignia … use 1:1
16:9 Ratio Sizes:
Really Big: 1024×576
Big: 512×288
Medium: 256×144
Small: 128×72
10:7 Ratio Sizes:
Really Big: 1024×717
Big: 512×358
Medium: 256×179
Small: 128×90
4:3 Ratio Sizes:
Really Big: 1024×768
Big: 512x 384
Medium: 256×192
Small: 128×96
Source: Express Zenovka
For more information:
...[VIDEO] Zak Claxton’s guide to enjoying live music in Second Life
The other day, BadWolf Bracken told me to watch Zak Claxton's video guide to enjoying live music in Second Life. It's both an educational and an entertaining tool – meaning that while it serves as a promotional vehicle for Zak's guitaristic talents like so many concert footage clips do, it ALSO imparts his actual experiences as a live musician inworld. Wet, in-context examples do far more than any boring theory could.
The cultural relevancy – including mixed-reality bits showing how Zak's avatar relates to his enthusiastic first-life self – communicates with power and humor. Also addressed are broader issues of marketing yourself, which every musician
...How to Make Your Photo Fit
Ever notice that your photos run into your or the feeds sidebars? This typically means your picture is too large for the theme. The best rule of thumb is to keep the width under 512.
How do you do this? If you remember in my last post, we talked about photo size and bigger the photo the better. This is still true but now we are going to look how to keep the quality and still be within a usable bloggable size.
My photo sizing trick uses flickr since I may not always achieve the correct size in my editing program. Here are the simple steps I use to make sure that my photos are of the right size:
1 – Click
...Not An Introduction to Second Life Prim Lights
This is dedicated to those knowledgeable and helpful folk over on the SL Universe forums, without whom this post might never have been written.
This is not the post I was going to write.
I was going to give an introduction to using Second Life prim lights. Because I needed some illustrative snapshots, I created a simple prim, activated the light feature, and started taking pictures.
At which point I realised that after five years in Second Life there are still things that I don’t know, one of them being that lights don’t quite work how I expected.
As an example, here’s a cube which has been turned into a light-source. You can see it lighting up the floor, as expected:
...[QUICKTIP] ♪ Can you tell me how to get to… the Second Life user settings? ♪
Knowing where the Second Life user settings folder is extremely useful for numerous reasons, from clearing your cache to remedy problems, to finding troubleshooting logs to send our Support staff, to catching up on logged conversations, and one of my faves – installing WindLight sky & water looks, mhmmm. (OMG! ADVERT! GET 300+ FREE SETTINGS!)
I noticed that multiple questions on this very topic keep coming up, so I've lovingly prepared a…
Shiny, happy new help page on how find your Second Life user settings!^ Click through and like all Knowledge Base help pages, feel free to edit and improve it directly, or leave a note in these here comments.
This is
...How to Take a High Res Snap Shot
Have you noticed that your photos aren’t as “smooth” as others? Do you see jagged edges on avatars and objects in your photos? It might be due to the low resolution of your photographs.
“GAH! What’s Resolution?”, you my ask. Its the level of detail and/or pixels. The higher the detail and pixels the better the photo. You will want to take the biggest photo possible.
High-res Snapshot
It’s under the ‘Client’ menu and when you have a ‘X’ in front of it, it’s activated. It’s only useful if you use the ‘Snapshot to Disk’ function because you can change the resolution settings manually in the Take Snapshot option window. Normally if you take a ‘Snapshot to Disk’, it has the same resolution
...Welcome!
Over the last three years in SL, I’ve come across a lot of tips and tricks related to blogging, photoshop, and SL. Problem is, I’d find the tutorials and forget them, and I’d have a lot of trouble finding them again when I actually needed them. So I finally decided to do something about it and keep an archive so expect links to guides, tutorials, and videos as well.
If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to let me, Luna Jubilee, know via a notecard with the URL and details.
Taking pictures in Second Life
Someone told me her Second Life looks nothing like it does on my picks. A good graphics card certainly helps, but there is lot more you can do. Here's what I do when I takes pictures in sl, I'm not pretending to be an expert here, but maybe you find something usefull for yours: Graphic settings: In preferences I shove my settings up to ultra. Slows you down, but for pics it's a world of difference. Then most of the time I turn local lights of en go to sun and moon only. With good windlight settings you don't need a facelight and bright lights can ruin a shot. Windligth settings: The right ones make your avi instantly ...[QUICKTIP] Getting an attachment out of your body (really)
“Doctor doctor, I’ve got prims stuck in me and I can’t get them out!” While not the same terrifying magnitude as a chestburster, here’s a common problem: you’re positioning an attachment but, whups, it slides into your avatar and you accidentally exit Edit mode, rendering you frustrated.
Don’t panic! In this perky video tutorial, I’ll show you how to angle your camera so you can extract that attachment and get it back to where it needs to go.
Find the camera too confusing? There’s another way: reset an attachment’s slot! How the heck do you do that? Well, why don’t
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[BUILDING] Makin’ copies… (1) Shift-drag and (2) Copy selected
There are a number of ways to copy objects you create or have the rights to in Second Life. This speeds up the process of building with similar parts, like walls, roads, and when you need to create variations. For example, copy a tree and alter each one's branches to appear different.
And to be preemptive about it, yes, RESPECT OTHER RESIDENTS' INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. DON'T BE A JERK!
I'm sad to say that although two of the more useful ways to copy objects have existed for years, they're not immediately obvious. (Something we hope to rectify in the future, yeah.) Infact, I learned both of these from more experienced builders, who had the knowledge passed on to
...[COMMENTARY] The great help ecosystem
One then-new Linden remarked to me,
"Second Life is different from my previous game development job, because there's no single launch party – it's ongoing."I thought that was a particularly apt way to sum our ever-changing landscape. While it's true conventional software has patches and new versions, in SL, an incredible array of stuff is incrementally improved by Lindens and Residents. That's why despite the big announcements we make about hot bug fixes and cool new features, so much happens on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis that can't easily be understood unless you're part of it. (Something Heisenbergian going on here.) For instance, the decisions that lead to issue resolutions are often discussed openly on our
...Textures – A Few Quick Tips
Some hints and tips that might make working with textures quicker and more efficient.
1. Instantly apply a texture
…without even opening the Build dialog! Simply drag a texture from your inventory onto the surface that you want to texture. The texture will instantly be applied to that face. Obviously this will only work on prims that you have modify permissions for.
2. Applying a texture to multiple faces
In the Build menu, tick ‘Select Texture’ as usual, and select the first face. Then hold down the Shift key and click on any other faces that you want to texture, even on completely different prims. Then apply the texture that you want, via the Texture tab. The texture will be applied
...Second Life Male Shapes
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BackgroundI often say that avatars come in all shapes and sizes, and it is this variety that maintains avatar diversity Second Life, which in turn is what makes Second Life such a fantastic realm to explore. However, for some, as it was for myself, creating a pleasing shape shortly after entering Second Life can be a daunting task. Nearly three years ago, whilst travelling the Grid with newbie eyes wide open, I observed that most males had extremely broad shoulders and thick limbs that would put Arnold Schwarzenegger to shame. Moreover, most men’s heads were either far too small or even too large
...[BUILDING] Unraveling the mysteries of prim flicker
When two prims get too close and share the same surface space… no, they don't have a baby prim, although that'd be cute. Alas, they clash with each other and appear freaky-deaky. That's not so cute, because it can make your build look like crap. AHHH MY EYES!!!! This is called "Z-fighting", and the "Z" refers to the "depth buffer" used in 3D computer graphics – it's not just a Second Life issue.
You may've seen this and didn't know what to call it. Now, the beast has a name!
But! While a fix isn't as easy as apple pie, there are
...Tutorial – Gothic Lolita Shoes
Hiya!So today we make some simple black goth loli shoes, including the sl shoe base.
Pls note that you should have a basic understanding of building for this tutorial, if you dont: stop reading here and look at my older tuts!
First create a cylinder and make a copy of it (press shift key down and drag it), apply similar settings as above. This will be the sole of our ...
[XSTREET] Have a tip? Have at it!
HAI GUISE, as ye may know, I'm doing a series on Xstreet virtual marketplace tips & tricks. Here's what I've blogged about already, which is covered in our official help:
Using ADVANCED SEARCH to find what you want, faster! Depositing fund$ into an inworld terminal (so you can buy awesome stuff)But! Beyond the core basics, we want to include stuff you've learned from experience. I'm currently compiling a
Wiki page of Resident-contributed tips & tricksIt's a small, scrawny thing right now and could really benefit from your tippage. If you have advice on how to get more out of Xstreet, please tell us in the comments and/or edit
...[QUICKTIP] How the heck do you change where you login?
Ever get the feeling you'd rather log into Second Life at home, or the last place you visited? What about being able to CHOOSE which Region (and specific coordinates) you log into? This tip comes from "Changing your login location", part of our perusatory (I made that word up, K?) of Knowledge Base help files:
You can change your login location to be your home, the last location you logged off at, or a specific set of coordinates. The last one is useful for accessing places faster, and in some cases, solving technical issues like being unable to login. Here's how to do it:
Start Second Life. At the login screen, go to Edit > ...[XSTREET TIPS] Using ADVANCED SEARCH to find what you want, faster!
Search should be simple and straightforward. Enter in what you want to find, and seconds later, you've got it! (Or should I say, you've got hits. ;) ) Our Xstreet virtual marketplace's basic search works with single words, but when you want to search for exact phrases and by parameters like price, that's where these come in handy:
BOOLEAN OPERATORS – Sounds techy, right? Named after a math dude named George Boole, these are basically little bits you add to your search to include, exclude, and weight specific terms. For instance, if you add "+" to the beginning of a word, each result MUST have it. As another example, if you're open ...[Q&A] Why can’t I put animations/sounds into a gesture?
From various Residents in our reader mailbag…
Why doesn't an animation or sound appear in the dropdown list when you're editing a gesture?Check if it has full permissions. Animations and sounds must have full permissions to be included in a gesture. This is because a gesture functions like a "wrapper" that references individual animations and sounds. If an animation was no-transfer but the gesture could include it, that'd be an unfair way to work around the creator's permissions. A similar case applies for non-copyable animations and sounds.
It's true you can't do much to modify animations and sounds after uploading them aside from renaming and changing their description, but the rule still holds true.
^ The above comes from
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