2015 VIDEO: AMP: Private dancer. Non-player Character (NPC) No avateers were used in this video.

NPC Private dancer. Non-player Character 
No avateers were used in this video.

• Demonstration of what you can do with the NPC Creator script

• Watch on YouTube

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• Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes
• Just to prove I did my homework in today's NPC class.  Chic Aeon
• NPCs: for video and stage productions. AMP notes
• Fun With NPC's Tutorial 1
• Dancing NPCs:   And a Hypergrid warning

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The NPCs in OpenSim are so valuable for video production that I would now be moving to OpenSim if I had not already moved video production out of SL because of the Terms-of-Service issue. Selby Evans

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• Scroll down for News and Notes
• Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes 
• Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

News and Notes

Events 

Virtual Learning Series Jan/Feb Classes

In Kitely, with Firestorm, use the Firestorm Hop
hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Hypergrid Academy/173/129/22

HG: Paste HG address into World map, use TP

grid.kitely.com:8002:Hypergrid Academy 

Rescheduled for Mar. 5  January 22 1:00pm  Creating Communities in Virtual Worlds

A Virtual Learning Series open discussion on community creation in virtual worlds.

January 29 1:00pm  Photoshop Clothing Creation

A Virtual Learning Series class on basic clothing creation in Photoshop. Free shirt and sock templates will be included.

February 5  1:00pm  Introduction to Roleplaying

An introduction to basic roleplaying skills and character creation in virtual worlds.

February 12 1:00pm  Education Roundtable

A roundtable panel on education in virtual worlds. Guest panelists!

• Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes

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Hypergrid

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

Lauren's Place

• Lauren's place, Tuesdays, 5 pm California time 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/124/241/22
• Watch later: Lauren's channel  

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Take great online courses from the world's best universities
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
• Learning Objectives Creator

Writers

• Greyville Writer's Colony

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again in couple of minutes.  Sometimes the first try fails (probably times out).  And try again a few hours later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day. 

• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm
• If you get an address like this: 
• hg.francogrid.org:80:Residence-09:/119/128/190 
• paste it into the address bar of Firestorm, see if it takes you to the exact coordinates.

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• Machinima: Virtual World Filmmaking
• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc. 
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
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• Drop by the White Tigers in Second Life 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lawst%20Paradise/147/61/23 
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second Life or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater