SL INFO / RESOURCES

SL English Knowledge Base 120 articles on all aspects of SL activities, features, functionality

VIRTUAL PERSONA / AVATAR
 Link to Knowledge Base > Creating Clothing and Tattoos  Also search for Uploading Assets and Textures Overview, Avatar Attachments

Note:  Changing avatar appearance in in-world time: Scripts won't work directly, but the effect can be achieved by wearing prims that look like body parts and have scripts change those. The 'real' body is usually camouflaged under the prims using invisprims or making the body into a ball.   Another approach would be to have a number of shapes on hand, each in its own clothing folder, along with a duplicated (via links) outfit -- flip between the folders to change the shape.. everything else would stay the same. Idea about wearing prims is actually pretty effective, especially if you consider transitioning between meshes.

TIPS ON TAKING SNAPSHOTS IN SL
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Torley_Linden/Snapshot_tips


BUILDING IN SECOND LIFE
Link to Knowledge Base > Build Tools

Link to Creation Portal  (clothing, avatar toolbox, building, animation, snapshots+postcards, Havok4 physics engine, sculpted prims, Voice, Windlight atmosphere, VIDEO TUTORIALS, etc.)

Link to Knowledge Base > Building Tips  (NOTE List of public and private SANDBOXES where you can build or build and script without owning the land.  Be sure to figure out when it's time to be CLEARED.  Be sure to save your creations to your Inventory before you will leave or they will just sit there until the next clearing of the sandbox).
Other appropriate sandboxes:  Rockcliffe (RUC), Dreams, Public Sandbox Group (PSG),
Also search for Uploading Assets and Textures Overview.  For land owners, How to move a Build.

Mermaid Diaries - Good building tutorials - http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/11/build.html

3D Tools for Sculpty Previewing, Modeling, Texturinghttp://wiki.secondlife.com
NEW NEW - IN WORLD SCULPTY TOOL:  "SCULPT STUDIO"
Regular Sculpt Studio Office Hours Every Sunday 6 AM SLT and 2 PM SLT at Fermi (search in SL and teleport)

/wiki/Sculpted_Prims:_3d_Software_Guide
Probably most useful (free): Wings Modeler in combo with POVRay
WINGS3D MODELING / MODELING SCULPTED PRIMS FOR SL IMPORT - See this blog site Page devoted to this

Under $100:  AC3D $75/bake texture UVs externally e.g. POVRay, Curvy 3D $99/bakes texture UVs, paint on object surface, model shapes from drawn outlines, Modo 302 $99Student/modeler exports sculpt map + bakes texture UVs.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims:_Resident-made_Tools
Interesting:  Sculpt Studio/seems to do everything, Rokuro/lathe modeling, Tatara/Prim Previewer + Editor, Tokoroten/Extruder.

ANIMATION - Link to Knowledge Base Animation Guide, lists external tools to use, etc.  Note Related Links at top and be sure to search for additional and more recent contributions.  Also search for:
Uploading Assets
Gestures, Emotes, and Animation
Basic Movement Controls (avatar body, camera POV, vehicles).
Mac download of free anim app Qavimator:
(currently trying to figure out where pc version is...that website not live)
(PC) http://qavimator.org/ I installed the 2010 Windows version - seems to work fine.
(Mac) http://referencethis.com/QAvimator-osx-universal-svn-2008-12-06.zip / works fine

Main Reference - Link to LSL Linden Scripting Language Portal
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