How to's for Second Life

Well, I know there are classes on various things, this is a wonderful thing, unfortunately i can not make these classes or the majority of them are Int. And yes I did attempt to attend one of these.. Wayyyyyy over my head.

I have done a search on the web various times hoping to find some how to's on second life. I.e., making things, my hair, clothes, blah blah blah.. And of course came up empty handed. sigh......

So, if you know of any sites that have in depth how to's that are simplistic for ppl like myself please pretty please with a cherry on top post it


and yes i know second life has their how to thingy.. but no its not informative except for the basics of moving and so forth -.-

Most of these things are taught at interactive classes in-world, which is by far the best way of teaching them because with creative things everyone looks at them in a different way.

What are you looking to do?

I know, but not many classes (i have taken the one i could) are not for beginners or they tend to be mid day. I am wanting to learn.... everything of course.. lol seriously -.-

so far i have learned how to do gestures. which by the way i would not in a million years been able to figure out untill that class.

Well, but where did you want to start? If it's building, the Ivory Tower Of Prims is probably the nearest thing to what you're describing. I don't know if other similar builds exist too..

A new site just developing is: http://slhandbook.com/

It might have some of what you are looking for.

hmm, i think that would help me alot, but not in the direction i am requesting here. I would like to know how to do make up, do flexi hair, make a decent outfit, make furniture, attach my stupid walk without getting errors. make my own for that matter and so forth. Did i leave anything out?

Both of these are done in basically the same way - download the avatar templates (from Linden Labs themselves, or the Chip Midnight templates), then draw the appearance for your clothes or make-up onto them, upload them and wear them. Some clothes may also have prim attachments included within them, which are built in the same way as all other prim objects (ie, check out the Ivory Tower)

If you're actually asking for tutorials on the artistic skills needed to make those drawings look good then.. well, I don't know many of those in SL And if anyone's doing one I want to come.



Essentially, they're built in the same ways as any other prim-based objects. Furniture is much easier to start with.



What errors are you getting?



Search the forums for "AvMotion" and download it. You can use this to create a walk animation that you can use within your attachment.

Ok, "draw the appearance for your clothes", when you mean this, are you saying for me to do it in an art program or something? or is it already provided in the template? yes i've seen that the prims can be clothes as well. i've made a ball and put a sit in there, but that is it




if there is one, im so there and im so iming you.. lol




that it can't find it. i know i need some program to override it.. sigh.. and i've had the question answered here. but i am not sure what the answer meant, since i am clueless..









kk, i'll try that this evening.

and thank you

You basically draw the appearance of your clothes and make-up in an art program, yes. You can imagine the clothing, and make-up, that your avatar wears as a picture that's wrapped around your avatar's body. Photoshop is a popular program to use, but you can also use GIMP, which is available for free.

As for prims, again usually the best idea is to go through the Ivory Tower, and then experiment.



How are you trying to "attach" the walk right now?

the card says to attach it to my spine and that it should work just fine, but its not..

Volatile, post over in the Designs/Textures section and you'll get a lot of good help. There are also sticky threads there with ALL kinds of helpful links for you.

kk, will do, thanks

If you have an Animation Override attachment which is giving you error messages that it can't find an animation, you probably need to load the animations into it. Some of them come with anim sets, and some don't... if it's one that doesn't, the anims will have to be purchased separately. The attachments almost always tell you how to load them into the device and edit the 'default anims' notecard so it'll recognize them.

If the AO device came with anims, you might just need to type in a command to make it load the anim set, or put a notecard in it with the anims listed, or something similar to that. What AO are you using?

Edit: the ZHAO overrider is a very good one, and is totally free at YadNi's Junkyard. You have to buy anims to put into it, but it attaches as a HUD, so it frees up a body attachment point. It has a pretty good instruction notecard with it, too.

Hit the F1 key while you're in Second Life and there's quite a huge "how to" thing there. It's relatively new.

SLUniverse Knowledge Base
http://www.sluniverse.com/kb/

Using Linden Scripting Language
http://www.kan-ed.org/second-life/using-LSL.html

Second Life Wiki How To's
http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=How-Tos

Second Life Helful Resources
http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Helpful+Resources

Transparency and Alpha Channels: The Definitive Guide
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Great Clothing Tutorial Links & More!
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You absolutely have to go spend some time at the Ivory Tower Of Prims taking the self paced tutorials on how to build objects, manipulate prims.

i grabbed some notecards from New Citizens a while back, written by verious ppl and put them on my little website ... if you want to check them out of world or print them or whatever

http://www.cheesefactory.us/NCI/modules/tutorials/

Thanks bunches to each and every of you that took the time to help

I have attended another class.... I can now make a trampolene.. LOL
but with all the info you all have given me I think I can start expermenting.. woot!