Scripting

Where can i learn how to script. I want to learn how to script and make things. Like this guy named Fill Lameth. He made his own staff and made a script for it. Where can i learn how to do that?

go here and scroll down to scripting

http://secondlife.com/developers/resources/matrix.php

also there are a few scripts in your inventory in the library folder you can look at and mess around with

That looks like a good resource but its a tad overwhelming.

Under help is a menu item for "Scripting WIKI". Select it, and a web page launches. It'll say the WIKI is disabled but there's a link to follow: select that. On the WIKI page select the tutorial section and work through all of them. Nearly all scripters in SL use the WIKI on a constant basis.

If you've programmed before, its a fairly easy and forgiving event-driven procedural language with limited OOP capabilities (although lacking in advanced data structures) and it also has some limited HTTP and XML capabilities. If you haven't programmed before its easy enough to get a good start, and advanced enough to do useful things.

use your search tab and look for Teazers university (TUI).

They offer in world classes, and it's free.

There are also other competing schools like Academy of Second Learning (ASL), and others.

Someone who is already familiar with programming should be able to do pretty well just digging into the wiki at http://lslwiki.com/lslwiki .

If you have no familiarity with programming you might want to search on the web for introduction to programming sites that have info on things like loops, conditionals, types, bits, bytes and other such fundamental concepts, unrelated to scripting in SL.

A way to start that some people find works for them is to take existing scripts and try modifying them. For example, take a script that makes a texture on a prim scroll; one might try making it scroll faster and slower. If you have a particle script, try changing the colors, or change the size of the particles.

I have sent you three folders with a ton of scripts in them. You can create a cube, drag the script into it and see what, if anything, happens; open the script and see if you can figure out some way to change what happens. The folders are named General Scripts 1, General Scripts 2, and umm, umm, uhh... General Scripts 3.

SL's event search appears to only find strings that match the beginning of an event listing, which means you can't find scripting classes by searching for "script" unless they start with the word script. You many be able to overcome this, though; if you go to the eventful.com site you should be able to find classes on scripting in SL by putting "secondlife script", or something similar, as your search terms.

There are groups for helping with scripting, the Scripters of Second Life is one such group. It's open join and free.

You can also find free items that have modifiable scripts in them that you can read to see how the scripts work.