2013 EDU: Virtually a disaster

Not if, but when

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Tour of the Virtual Emergency Exercises

• A tornado 
• A fire in a high-rise
• A shooting at  a high school
• A subway evacuation

Not a CNN retrospective of the top news of the week.  Not the scenario for an upcoming disaster movie.  

2013 SEE: Creations on Hobo Island, September

Hobo Island Building, September

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I drop by Hobo Island several times a day looking for new people who need help.  And while I am there, I get pictures of interesting builds. Like these.

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Another Farmville?

2013 HELP: Particle effects. Smoke, fire, flies, snow, butterflies

Smoke, fire, flies, snow, butterflies

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Those are just a few of the effects you can get from the LSL particle system. And you can use it without knowing how to script.  Some more effects: blood, dust, explosions,  gas, smoke, sparks, spray, steam, waterfalls, waves.
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Puff of smoke-particle effect

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The particle system produces things that are seen but don't exist as objects on the parcel and don't put any load on the simulator.  They are created by the software and graphics boards on the local computer.  They do load the local computer, but that is an individual issue.  If your computer is not up to the load, you simply set your viewer to limit the number of particles it will generate.

2013 ART: VIDEO: MachinimUWA III: Veruca VanDyke's 'Escape'

MachinimUWA III: Veruca VanDyke's 'Escape'

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Watch on YouTube
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Veruca VanDyke's 'Escape' for MachinimUWA III: Journeys, takes us on a journey that many of us take everyday, but that we are sometimes unaware of.
http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/04/machinimuwa-iii-veruca-vandykes-escape.html
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Filmed at Lionheart's Railroad Tunnel, Hobo Hangout
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lionheart%20Pumbaa/56/176/21
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Video-Machinima

• 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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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 PROMO: Promote your projects on your MySL feed

Promote your projects on your MySL feed

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*MySL = my.secondlife.com

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My Home Feed

2013 STAGE: THEATER: Dreamers, Theatre on the hill

If you don' have a dream, 
how you gonna have a dream come true?

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 If I were a rich man
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All I can show you here are some of the elegant sets.  

2013 ART: Rachel Breaker's wacky sim.

Still off the wall

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I recently posted a video by OspreyTherian depicting work of Rachel Breaker on her sim, Off The Wall

Video: Off the Wall:  Rachel Breaker's wacky sim 

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Off the wall, wide view

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2013 See: Pod Tours of Southeast Heterocera

Southeast Heterocera
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Bhaga industrial zone 

Southeast Heterocera

2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Ian Pahute's All You Need Is Now

September Showcase by LEA
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Abstract art in motion
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Watch on YouTube
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2013 1stHELP: What your friends don't know about Second Life

Did your friends notice these features?
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You don't really need to know about these features, but they can come in handy sometimes.
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Move, Travel

• Double-click Move:  Optional feature to move you automatically to a place you can see.
• Autopilot: Optional feature to move you to a place by a double-click on it.
• Drag-a-slurl travel:  Drag a slurl from a web page onto your viewer to go there.

Preference settings for how to move

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Double-click Move, Autopilot

If you have set your double-click option to teleport (see "Fast moves" in the  screenshot above), you can usually teleport by a double-click on a place you can see. Autopilot means that your avatar will automatically walk to the point you indicate.  

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Drag-a-slurl
If you have a slurl on a webpage, you can go to that location by dragging the slurl to the viewer screen.   That will open a landmark page to the destination.  (Works with Viewer 3 and probably other level 2-3 viewers).-
Preferences: Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit
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If you have not yet gone online, the landmark page will not open, but the will appear in the box marked "Start at."  When you log in, that is where you will start.
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The Web connection

• Search on the web.  Second Life search on the web
• Chat on the web.  Use the social network system in SL 
• Promote on the web  Use the social network system in SL 

You don't have to open your viewer to do these things.  Your regular web browser will handle the job. You can use your favorite mobile device, so long as it will run your browser.  

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Your world
Adjust the sunlight in your world to suit you
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Pass through walls
If you have the double-click move (above) turned on, you can usually just double-click as soon as you see the the area on the other side of the wall.  This won't work in a place where the TP landing point is set.  In places like that, you will have to resort to the method described below
Pass through walls
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See what the people near you are saying in MySL
Not local chat.  Everybody uses that.    
MySL = my.secondlife.com
It offers another kind of chat stream:
Use the social network system in SL
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When you have MySL open, you can see the posts by everybody on your friends list.  But now a new feature.  Inworld, especially at an event, you may be most interested in what the people around you are saying. You can see the local chat, of course.  But you can also see the MySL stream.  

• Open your profile (right click on your avatar).   
• Click on the house
• Select the Nearby tab 

In the screenshot above, I was the only one using this (new) system.  I had just posted a notice about the event, so you see that on the local feed.  If other people in the meeting had posted on their home feeds, those posts would bee here.  Notice that this system would allow a response (Comment), so we could have a conversation among all  the local people using the MySL system.  
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We could have a conversation in local chat, of course, but that chat stream mixes all the threads together.  This system will keep each thread as a separate string.  Much less confusing.  
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Followers and Friends in MySL

Followers?    Yeah, like Twitter.  Everybody on your Second Life friends list will get your postings in their feed.  People who are not on your friends list, can also get your postings if they click the Follow button they will find on your profile. (Your friends should not see this button and probably won't.)    Followers differ from friends in that:

• They don't ask your approval
• You don't have to follow back
• They have no inworld connection to you

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MySLPeople page. 

Friends and followers

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These features work in Viewer 3 (the standard viewer) and probably in Firestorm
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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans