Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life
Your second life is what you make itEnrich your virtual existence by mastering the techniques and tactics the experts use to create jaw-dropping SL content—everything from buildings and vehicles to clothing, landscapes, and animations. This official, exclusive guide from a team of Second Life content-creation experts was written with the full support of Linden Lab and features in-depth instructions for creating beautiful content and putting it to work in-world.Start a new fashion trend with custom clothing featuring realistic buttons, pockets, patterns, and even wrinkles. Tour SL in the car of your dreams or in your own private jet. Create cool animations and scripts to communicate with other SL residents, and more. Both a practical, step-by-step guide and a creative session with some of the most artistic and talented minds in the Second Life community, this book will quickly build your skills and inspire you to join Second Life's elite ranks of content creators.Basic concepts:Understand movement, inventory, and client/server issuesAdvanced building:Morph prims and design anything with these advanced techniquesSL scripting programs and third-party editors:Use a variety of tools to write, test, and debug scripts for vehicles, games, motion, and moreBecome a virtual pioneer:Start terraforming with SL land toolsDazzle visitors:Make an impact with textures, lighting, landscaping, and moreGo Hollywood:Storyboard, shoot film, add sound effects, and produce machinimaReal communication:Manage data, chat, and send e-mail—in-world and outOn the CDThe book's CD features tutorial files, textures, clothing and character templates, machinima, cool tools, and a host of other resources provided by Linden Lab to help Second Life content creators.