the official guide to advanced content creation for Second life Weber, Aimee. creator Rufer-Bach, Kimberly. Platel, Richard. text bibliography inu Indianapolis, IN Wiley Pub. c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xvii, 398 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) The book includes details on how to design and use Second Life content, covering such important skills as building, texturing, scripting, animating, and terraforming and discusses how to create scripts to communicate and interact with the world and manage data. Second life 101 -- Mastering second life's building blocks -- Advanced building techniques -- Let there be texture (and light)! -- Working with clothing and accessories -- Getting your feet wet with scripts -- Advanced LSL scripting -- Scripting the fun stuff -- Optimization--creating a comfortable user experience -- Terraforming -- Animation--breathing life into avatars -- Performance and fighting the lag monster -- Action! creating Machinima -- Creating an airplane -- Appendices-- Index. by Aimee Weber, Kimberly Rufer-Bach, Richard Platel. The CD-ROM includes textures, avatar templates, more than 100 sample animations, scripts and many utilities to help Second Life content creators. It, also includes examples of great machinima and tutorial files so you can follow along and compare your work to the pros. Includes bibliographical references (376-377) and index. Second Life (Game) Shared virtual environments Avatars (Computer graphics) W43 2008 793.932 9780470171141 (pbk.) 0470171146 (pbk.) 2009277906 VPW 071027 20230411085719.0 76215