The LODs in your objects determine the level of detail shown when you walk toward the object. The Lowest and Low settings are for objects that are quite far from your avatar; the Lowest LOD is for objects in another …
Second Life – Standard Texture Sizes
You might have noticed that on Second Life, no two promotional or profile images are the same size. It would be nice if the same texture (size) could be used in many situations but no. So I’ve put together a …
Scared to break Second Life if you see what the buttons do?
As a general rule of thumb; web developers and programmers do not give you the kind of powers that would give you an ability to *accidentally* break something. You will have to be a brilliant hacker and coder to be …
Accidentally went into cursor mode that overwrites text?
Oh, the bane of my existence! About every day, I accidentally enter a type of editing mode that nobody has ever used in practical word processing: The overwrite mode. NOBODY freaking likes it, I’m sure of it. It is a …
Make ugly stuff invisible for your Second Life – hide your neighbours’ ugly cr** by derendering
I am not quite happy with how difficult it is to derender stuff when you KNOW nobody visiting your land wants to see that stuff. I’d love to be able to give a “touch box” or a parcel experience with …
Second Life animation priorities.
Animation priorities allow a viewer to decide which animation to play over another. The lower the priority, the more it plays, but is overridden by other, more temporary animations. If two animations of the same priority are played together, the …
Second Life avatars – Switching between different height shapes.
I build everything in 1:1 scale on ZEN METAL. This means that I equate one real life meter directly to one Second Life meter. (Usually, creators don’t do this.) While I fit my own scenes quite beautifully, sometimes I feel …
Second Life Inventory management (video)
M-rated Second Life sim into adult only -access.
You might run a sim or parcel that is quite mild in content but still contains enough adult material to make you feel compelled to ban 16 and 17-year-olds off it. There’s an easy fix for this in your land’s …
Basic Second Life Scripts: Con Wylie script generator.
Many times, things do not need to be complicated to work fine on Second Life. If you have an idea for a simple script, the (free) Con Wylie Script Generator takes care of your basic scripting, formats it all nicely, …
