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[VIDEO] Zak Claxton’s guide to enjoying live music in Second Life

Date Posted: December 2, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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How to Make Your Photo Fit

Date Posted: December 1, 2009
Author: Luna Jubilee
Syndicated from: Blog Boot Camp
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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Not An Introduction to Second Life Prim Lights

Date Posted: December 1, 2009
Author: Erich Templar
Syndicated from: Templar Creations
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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:

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[QUICKTIP] ♪ Can you tell me how to get to… the Second Life user settings? ♪

Date Posted: November 30, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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NCI’s EVENT ORGANIZING: COME NOW! Weekly at 6pm SLT

Date Posted: November 29, 2009
Author: colleen Criss
Syndicated from: Colleen Criss's Weblog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

6PM SLT Sunday – NCI’s class on how to THROW PARTIES! Plan and put on ALL DAY MUSIC FESTS! plus discussions, protests… Practically everything that happens worth attending in SL is “AN EVENT” … we teach you the essentials to make all your events ROCK! YAY! Free Class for Musicians, DJs, Hosts & Promoters -  6PM SLT Sunday NCI’s Event Organization class teaches you a proven, systematic way to promote your live or DJ music gigs and other creative events. Plus tips/info on all related topics: streaming, PR, hosting, etc. http://slurl.com/secondlife/BOOMER%20ISLAND/241/46/22 NCI’s EVENT ORGANIZING: COME NOW! 6PM SLT Sunday! Class for LIVE MUSIC Promoters!! FREE! LEARN: How to bring a crowd ...
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How to Take a High Res Snap Shot

Date Posted: November 28, 2009
Author: Luna Jubilee
Syndicated from: Blog Boot Camp
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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Welcome!

Date Posted: November 27, 2009
Author: Luna Jubilee
Syndicated from: Blog Boot Camp
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

Date Posted: November 26, 2009
Author: Froukje Hoorenbeek
Syndicated from: Dutchies Other Life
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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 ...
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[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

Date Posted: November 24, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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[COMMENTARY] The great help ecosystem

Date Posted: November 23, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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Textures – A Few Quick Tips

Date Posted: November 20, 2009
Author: Erich Templar
Syndicated from: Templar Creations
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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New Citizens Inc

Date Posted: November 20, 2009
Author: colleen Criss
Syndicated from: Colleen Criss's Weblog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

NCI is a huge valubale resource to all new Second Life residents. I’m an instructor at NCI. I teach Event Planning and Hosting @ 6pm SLT every Sunday and my good friend and mentor any1 Gynoid teaches the class at 6AM SLT . NCI classes and events are always listed in the SecondLife events page. New Citizens Inc (commonly referred to as the NCI) is a PG Resident run help area for everyone created by Brace Coral in April 2005. It has become one of the largest mainland ‘help areas’ run by volunteer residents. NCI provides guides, classes and events, tutorials, information, and sandboxes for new players as well as advanced classes for the more experienced. NCI is entirely resident-run and financed ...
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Second Life Male Shapes

Date Posted: November 19, 2009
Author: Elric Anatine
Syndicated from: Distinguished Aesthetics
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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Background

I 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

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[BUILDING] Unraveling the mysteries of prim flicker

Date Posted: November 18, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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

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Tutorial – Gothic Lolita Shoes

Date Posted: November 18, 2009
Author: ArcanaCeawlin
Syndicated from: DeadKitties Update
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Hiya!
Alice Since i got this pretty, pretty dress from the Macabre Hunt which goes perfect with the Frick skins group gift (LOVE Frick), i thought i should make some matching shoes ;-)
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!
Goth loli shoes 1
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 ...
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[XSTREET] Have a tip? Have at it!

Date Posted: November 16, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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 & tricks

It'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

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[QUICKTIP] How the heck do you change where you login?

Date Posted: November 12, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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:

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[XSTREET TIPS] Using ADVANCED SEARCH to find what you want, faster!

Date Posted: November 11, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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 ...
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[Q&A] Why can’t I put animations/sounds into a gesture?

Date Posted: November 9, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

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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Second Life Item/Object Resizing Tutorial

Date Posted: November 8, 2009
Author: Elric Anatine
Syndicated from: Distinguished Aesthetics
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Introduction

With all of my ranting these days and railing against improperly used resizing scripts, I thought that I would locate some item resizing tutorials. I found a resizing tutorial for hair (always useful) where the techniques outlined can easily be applied to any other worn object. There are more tips and tricks that could be utilized in resizing non-hair objects, and as I find other tutorials, I will post their links here. If anyone reading my blog knows of any others, I would also be grateful for links.

Elric Pondering

Why Resize At All?

Not every avatar has a shape that conforms to the conceived ideal of an object’s creator. Whether it’s

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[QUICKTIP] Teleport a bunch of friends at once!

Date Posted: November 5, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

The following tip is deliciously extracted from our Knowledge Base on the Wiki — help you can make better! Learn more.

How do I teleport more than one Resident at a time?

This is useful for inviting a lot of people to a party you're hosting, exploring as a group, and more.

Go to Edit > Friends. Hold Ctrl and click the Friends you want to teleport. If you select someone who's offline, the Teleport button is disabled. Click Teleport. ...
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[XSTREET TIPS] Depositing fund$ into an inworld terminal (so you can buy awesome stuff)

Date Posted: November 3, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Do you like shopping? 'Cuz I sure do. Teaching you that OBEDIENT CONSUMERISM IS GOOD might be all Big Brotherly in another world, but since Second Life's inworld content is almost entirely created by your fellow Residents, shopping at the Xstreet virtual marketplace is more like supporting a homegrown artist a la Etsy. Even if said content creator's products and service are incredibly professional. (Best of both worlds combining creative intimacy with electronic convenience, huh?)

ANYWAY… as compelling as a litter of kittens, this is one in a series of tips I'm doing about how you can make the most out of Xstreet. Buy what you're looking for, have fun, and

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Want Metavirtual.us on your iGoogle?

Date Posted: November 2, 2009
Author: Kesseret Steeplechase
Syndicated from: KessKreations
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

When I am at work I usually keep iGoogle open. I have a hamster there, I have CNN there, I my Google Analytics, and plenty of other goodies. Why not let Metavirtual have a place next to my pet hamster? (His name is Joe, by the way)

Now you can: While logged into iGoogle click on this link and get it installed:

http://www.google.com/ig/adde?hl=en&moduleurl=http://metavirtual.us/feed/&source=imag

And here’s a fancy picture of it!

metavirtualigoogle

I’m working on a google desktop widget, next! Anyway! Enjoy!

<3,
Kesseret

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Debug Permissions: permissions for power users

Date Posted: October 28, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Ever wanted to see more than the basic Modify/Copy/Transfer permissions? Wonder what specific "permissions groups" (yourself, next owner, group-owned, everybody, etc.) can do with an object?

Wonder no more, there's a special Debug Permissions tool you can activate from within the Advanced menu. And like other Advanced menu features, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND WE DON'T OFFICIALLY SUPPORT IT. So don't cry if it breaks one day or is altogether superseded by something awesomer. However, I've been using Debug Permissions for several years and I know it's helped many a merchant figure out what happens to an object if someone buys it.

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[QUICKTIP] Searching the Knowledge Base and Wiki in-Viewer

Date Posted: October 20, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Now that Second Life's official help documentation, the Knowledge Base, is on the Wiki as reported here, you can search the KB when you're using the Second Life Viewer. This has been a feature for quite some time but it always needs more publicity, so here goes:

Click the Search button. In the All tab, change the Any Category dropdown to Wiki. Type in a query and click the Search button within the Search window.

As shown in this video! This search is Google-powered, so it's cool to be really specific about your keywords. Alas, video tutorials and other Flash content don't display yet.

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How to easily link to content when posting on our blogs & forums

Date Posted: October 19, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Say you're replying to a blogs.secondlife.com discussion thread and you want to link to a blog post you recently saw. Rather than manually searching for it, right-clicking to copy the link, and blahblahblah — there are TWO TABS in the Insert Link window that will make your life much easier. Watch this speedy screencast to learn how they work:

Text instructions:

In a text editor, click the Insert Link button on the toolbar. Click the All Content or Browse History tab. Use the controls to look for the content you want to link to. Click the radio button to the left of ...
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Sell CONTENTS so customers don’t have to unbox your goods!

Date Posted: October 15, 2009
Author: torley@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - TNT - Second Life Tips & Tricks
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

It's nice to get gift-wrapped presents, BUT there are many times when selling items in a box in Second Life is unnecessary! It can cause customers problems because many stores don't have a place to rez the box and unpack it, and a big pain point for new Residents is that they confuse the box with the item, and wear it — leading to "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ON MY RIGHT HAND?!" embarrassment (used to be "box on head syndrome", but that changed awhile ago).

As an old SL joke goes, "STOP TO SELL STUFF IN A BOX!" You can sell items directly from wall display-to-inventory so that when someone buys it, it'll

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Imprudence viewer

Date Posted: October 12, 2009
Author: Ana Lutetia
Syndicated from: Ana Lutetia inSL
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

I have been meaning to do a post about Imprudence almost since it was released. I have been blogging about it here and there but haven’t done a post solely about it yet. I have blog previously about the flexible sculpties and the worn tab but I haven’t blog about all of the new features they added. First of all, I am flattered they’ve included my WindLight presets in the viewer. Like most viewers, it recognized my IP address and presented the viewer in Portuguese. You can start by downloading it in the Imprudence blog and you can read the Imprudence Manifesto here. SL-ImprudenceViewer002 The profiles were ...
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The Art of Defeat

Date Posted: October 12, 2009
Author: Salvatore Otoro
Syndicated from: Second Life Roleplay
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

- Cue Music Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (my favorite battle music of many movies including my personal favorite Excalibur).  My thanks to Michel Morane for suggesting I explain this in my blog. Battle in the streets of Lost Angels Battle in the streets of Lost Angels Everyone likes to win.  Victory is savored by all while defeat is desired by none.  What do you do when you are defeated and it is the other player’s turn to celebrate victory at your expense?  Just as victory can be played with much satisfactions, a defeat that is well planned and executed will result ...
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It’s All About The Props

Date Posted: October 11, 2009
Author: Salvatore Otoro
Syndicated from: Second Life Roleplay
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

Demons Left to Right: Fran, Orchid, Avian, Sakura, Sindee, and Unwordly

Demons Left to Right: Fran, Orchid, Avian, Sakura, Sindee, and Unwordly

Recently, my role play character took a turn for the worse.  My character is having an identity crisis as the one host splits into two hosts; the original host Salvatore and another more sinister and much darker host Sindee.  Sindee is the part of Salvatore that spent most of the time as Jyorogumo, the Oni spider demon, in Japan.  It is why she speaks Japanese.  At times when she is present, she will start speaking in Japanese whatever it is she wants to

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Just some random stuff

Date Posted: October 9, 2009
Author: Kesseret Steeplechase
Syndicated from: KessKreations
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

So I’ve had many a discussion with various content creators about a store card system.  What is an alternative? Ideas got tossed and then there was the idea of using an LSL script to put in a prim near the item for sale and have the prim textured to say, “BUY AS GIFT” (or something similar). How could that script get the user to load XstreetSL in their browser. With Cassie I wrote this short LSL script to have a box, when rezzed, thank the user for their purchase, offer up a website link in a blue dialogue box, and then delete the box. I thought it might be easiest for my customers (and it was). I love to write

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tips and tricks | re-render stuff

Date Posted: October 9, 2009
Author: Ana Lutetia
Syndicated from: Ana Lutetia inSL
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

You know when you arrived somewhere and everything is grey? Or when you are waiting forever a texture to load and it just won’t? Hyang Zhao showed me one of Emerald viewer features that I wasn’t aware of. It’s on the features pages but I didn’t read it even once. (I never read manuals anyway…) dd: changes your draw distance (the distance you can see) Just type in chat dd 0. Your draw distance was set to zero (0). Now, type dd 128 and your draw distance will go back to 128 m. All I can say is that this was the best thing ever I’ve learned lately inSL. Digg...
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Getting Into Character

Date Posted: September 27, 2009
Author: Salvatore Otoro
Syndicated from: Second Life Roleplay
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials

The Black Church in Aracadia

The Black Church in Aracadia

Last night, a friend asked me a very good question about getting into character.  She explained that she had a tendency to get too attached to her avatars and felt that if something happened In Character (IC) she might take it personally.  She wanted to know how I separated Real Life (RL) me from RP me.  She has no role play experience but is willing to learn. The first thing I suggest would be to pick a look that is not like RL you in all aspects.  By this I mean choose a different hair color and a ...
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Swapping Gender or Race

Date Posted: September 22, 2009
Author: Salvatore Otoro
Syndicated from: Second Life Roleplay
Filed Under: MV-SL-Tutorials


Lost Vegas

Lost Vegas

Crossing the gender or race divide in your role play can be an interesting experience and enrich your character as well as add more role play to it.  Depending on the type of role play sim you are in, this may or may not be possible.  Gorean role play is one that I can think of where these type of changes would not be possible.  However, in a free form role play, anything is possible just as long as you write it and treat it as such.

As always, drastic changes should be role played to where it would fit

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