This page shows some of the tricks and techniques I use in scripting and creating objects in the online game of Second Life™.
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| I am constantly asked to help with scripts, textures, and objects. I am often forced to turn down such requests due to time pressures. I can only help a few people at a time, one-on-one, so by posting these tips here, I hope I can reach many others. ~ Ferd Frederix |
January 2010 Posts:
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Ferd's LSL Script Database - the LSLDB
Ferd's SL Script Database has a bunch
of public domain LSL Scripts. It is a user-created wiki that anyone
can edit or contribute to. It features syntax highlighting and zip files.
This is a wordle.
CREATE ANimations with QAVIMATOR
Get this zip file of all the default Second Life animations. These are very useful as a start to making your your own custom animations. After you unzip them, it is easy to modify them with QAvimator, an easy to use and free Second Life compatible animation editor.
Get the Default Animations Zip file and
then download QAvimator.
Here is a Blue and Red Adept example pose set made in QAvimator that Wavinggirlsav Voom and I used to make a replication of Piers Anthony's book cover art for the "Blue Adept", book two of the "The Apprentice Adept" series of fantasy novels.
Get
the Blue Adept and Red Adept
animations
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| Original Blue Adept cover | Second Life reproduction in progress |
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Ferd's SIM FINDER Database - FIND that laggy Second Life neighbor!
Ferd's Secondlife Sim Neighbor Database will find that neighboring sim (up to 8 of them) that are using all the bandwidth and causing lag in your sim.
Type your region name in and click GoFerd's Text-to-Wave converter, the easy way
This text to speech tool lets you create Second Life compliant 44 kHz audio files of any text that you type in.
You can speak in female of male voices, too. A set of <XML> commands lets you control pitch, speed, and emphasis.
These are extremely useful in Second Life. I use them in the Ghost of Castle Blue game extensively. Use the LSL script command llPlaySound("sound name",1.0); to play them in-world.
Ferd's Create animated movies in Second Life the easy way - Convert GIF files
This handy tool makes those moving animated gadgets simple! Just convert GIF files with Peregrine Falcons simple and easy to use GIF convertor.
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You can make animated gif one-prim objects like this in Second Life with just a few clicks and simple script. Go ahead, try and convert GIF files to Second Life. |
Here is Ferd's collection
and a zip you can download
as test files
Download 330 Windlight Sun and Water Settings
Download Windlight settings
#4 and have 330 cool atmospheric and water effects!
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All you do is unzip the zip file Windlight-Settings-4.zip to get these settings, save them, and reboot Second Life, then select these presets in the Environment Editor and enjoy great skies and water! More information is on the Wiki.
Windows XP
Skies - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\windlight\skies-
Water -
C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings\windlight\water
Windows Vista
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Skies -
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\user_settings\windlight\skies -
Water -
C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings\windlight\water -
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Skies - In the Finder, use Go menu > Go to Folder
and paste in:
~/Library/Application Support/SecondLife/user_settings/windlight/skies - Water - Again use Go > Go to Folder
and paste in:
/Applications/Second
Life.app/Contents/Resources/app_settings/windlight/water
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Linux - The folder that contains the "secondlife" boot script
(e.g., "~/Desktop/SecondLife-i686-1.21.6.99587/"). Its
exact location depends on where you extracted the viewer .bz2 archive
after downloading it.
Make a fisheye picture of your sim
Hugin is a tool to convert camera snaps from Second Life into panoramic pictures like this: (Click to zoom in, and then click again!
Get Hugin from Sourceforge.
The best method to make these in Second Life is to fly up to 100-200
meters, and go into mouselook mode. Aim your camera at the horizon.
Press Ctrl-` to take a picture. Move your camera in a circle, with plenty
of overlap, and take pictures all the way around, overlapping each picture
with recognizable features in each frame. Continue all the way around
in a spiral, overlapping the tops and bottom edges as you go. I used
about 60 images for the spaceport. You then upload these into
Hugin, and use the tools
in it to stitch them into a image.
Chat-to-speech tool lets you listen to chat
Ferd's text to speech tool lets you listen to text that is typed in main chat.
You can listen to female of male voices, too. Copy the URL and send it to your audience or a friend and they can listen in too. No download needed. A set of <XML> commands lets you control pitch, speed, and emphasis.
Create scripted objects in Second Life the easy way
What is Scratch for Second Life (S4SL)?
S4SL is a new easy way to add behaviors and interactivity to your objects in Second Life. S4SL is graphical programming language that lets you construct programs by snapping together graphical blocks. With S4SL, you can snap together a few blocks to make your SL pet interact with you using chat commands, make your sculpture change size and color, or make your house respond to your presence.
Get Scratch now
CREATE Simple SCRIPTS IN SECONDS with Autoscripter