2019 HELP: Travel Secrets of virtual worlds

Travel Secrets of virtual worlds 
Updated 3/20/2019
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These are not meant to be secrets.  It just works out that way.  These are just easier ways of doing things you already know how to do. 
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Get there:

• ClickNwalk Get there, don't overshoot
• Double-click-TP (good to get on stage)
• Quick trips for your favorites places, don't search your inventory
• Login to the place you want to be, skip that first TP
• Use a SLurl from a web page, go where the blogs take you 
• Move and roam your camera (look around without moving)
• Pass through walls 

• Basic Moves: Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit  
• Map V3.2 Map button (folded paper)
• Landing point, Teleport routing.  The forced landing point 

• These instructions apply to the FIrestorm viewer.  
• The features may be available in most third party viewers, but there may be some differences in how to use them.

Click-walk (Autopilot). Double-click-TP

V3.2 Preferences, 

Move & View window

• Double-click TP:  Optional feature to TP you automatically to a place you can see.
• ClickNWalk:  Walk your avatar to a place by a single-click on the place.

If you have set your double-click option to teleport (see screenshot above), you can usually teleport by double-click to any place you can see..  If you are in a parcel that has a landing point set, you may get a message saying you can't teleport closer.    

In such places:

• Use ClickNWalk
• Or open your world map (Ctrl m) and double click on the place 

These features are especially useful if you want to get to a specific point without overshooting. 

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Details:  Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (Oct.) Preferences

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Quick trips to your favorite places

• Put your favorite landmarks it the favorites folder under Landmarks.  
• You can easily find them.

Favorites bar

Click image to enlarge

Login to the place you want to be

If you have a SLurl, copy-paste it into the destination bar on the entry screen.  Then click Login.  You will (probably) arrive where the SLurl specifies
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If you have put Landmarks in your Favorites Bar, go to Preferences-Private, then check 
"Show my Favorite Landmarks at Login."
The login page will give you a drop-down menu of the destinations in your Favorites Bar

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If you know the name of the sim, put that in the destination bar.  You will land in the middle of the sim (128,128)
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These shortcuts can often save you a teleport after you Login.
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Teleport to nearby sims

• Open the world map
• V3.2 Map button (folded paper)
• Double-click on the place you want to get to

Teleport to a friend's location

• Communicate: Make and maintain contacts 

Use a SLurl from a web page

• If you have SLurl on a web page and your viewer is not open, click the SLurl.  
• That will open the viewer (if you have one) and let you log in.  
• If you don't have a viewer, the system will start you on the road to downloading/installing a viewer or registering for Second Life.

• If you have a SLurl and your viewer is open, drag the SLurl to the viewer screen and drop it there. 

Find Places you want to visit

• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
• Hypergrid Welcome Regions
• SL Destination Guide
• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Where am I? Where do I want to be? 

Can: move and roam you camera

• You stay where you are.  
• Your camera can look around for you.  
• Even in places you can't go. 

• See, Zoom, roam, and tag

Pass through walls

• You need double-click move (above) turned on.
• You just need to cam to the inside of a place and use the double-click to there.
• To cam through a wall, zoom up close to it.
• Then rotate your view (side-pointing arrow) till you see the other side.
• This won't work in a place where the TP landing point is set. 

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