Tip of the Week #24: Navigating in small spaces
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 12:00 AM by: TorleyEver found yourself wanting to enjoy a place in Second Life but kept getting annoyed because of objects blocking your camera, or you got lost?
This video tutorial’s ideal for our newer Residents — welcome! — and also serves as a useful refresher for more experienced inworlders.
A couple followups:
- Thanx to each and everyone who sent me fun gestures re: “Editing and uploading sounds“. I wanted to acknowledge I got many and was LOLing FO’ REALZ.
- I’ve added all video tutorials to our Second Life Podcast, also available on
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-Torley Linden 
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February 28th, 2008 at 12:10 AM
[...] for visiting!Linden Lab’s Torley Linden has released another useful tutorial, this time on navigating in small spaces. Anything that minimises the camera issues in small spaces for new users is [...]
February 28th, 2008 at 1:03 AM
Torley, what’s the green translucent circle around your mouse pointer?
February 28th, 2008 at 1:23 AM
Yet another very useful video… nice one
But.. I sooooo was waiting for you to crash out on Alt-Mouse or for the final TP to fail. LOL
February 28th, 2008 at 1:41 AM
I wanna explore that mineshaft! When it’s open, could you post some kind of announcement and landmark?
I’m wondering the same thing as WarKirby: What’s that yellow aura around your pointer?
When I teleport out of a sticky spot like that, I prefer to go to ground level. I hate watching my av go crunch, even though I know she doesn’t really get hurt.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:44 AM
<3 mouselook - I tend to do all my exploring in mouselook
February 28th, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Here is a question for you, Torley. How do you make a video using SL that includes sound? The client only lets you capture the video. Kinda annoying having to record the sound with a separate program then spend ages trying to sync the two up in Premier.
Anyways, yet another great video Torley!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:26 AM
I use http://www.wegame.com/ to record Vids for SL Works great!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:01 AM
you can enable and disable mouselook also with the scroll-button of the mouse :))
nice video, torley
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 AM
firebird, start fly-mod before u tp, i always do that. it helps you if u explore a land what prohibites fly-mod to start ( u dont need to press ctrl-alt-v than)
February 28th, 2008 at 3:46 AM
btw , the miniNgs are at the UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE -LAND :))
February 28th, 2008 at 4:59 AM
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February 28th, 2008 at 5:44 AM
Torley must really like FB. He mentions it twice =)
@6
Fraps (fraps.com) will allow you to record audio and video in SL
February 28th, 2008 at 5:54 AM
@ 4 just simply press the page up key on your keyboard when you begin to fall
@ 6 Torley uses a moderately priced, 3rd party software to record and edit his video/sound
LL realizes their current built-in method of recording video sucks . See this page for what they are doing about it and for a list of software that you can get (some are FREE)
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Movie_Recording
February 28th, 2008 at 6:19 AM
…wonderful,.. these ‘tutes’ are most valuable in our enjoyment of SL… good job… Now can we convince the Linden people the dire need for a increase in our ‘group’ capacity?.. while I’m at it.. how about a decrease in size of the notice window.. well no complaints thank you Linden for this wonderful ‘game’…
February 28th, 2008 at 7:16 AM
Nicely done vidtut, Torley.
Your enthusiasm infectious. 
What’s happening to me? o.0
I’ve been infected with ~~
Oh, I fell strange!
Wait! X\ I know! *-
TORLITIS! AaaaaahhhhhHHHH! _/0.0\_
/me turns green and pink 0
You shout: Friendly Greetings!
February 28th, 2008 at 7:38 AM
“”Ever found yourself wanting to enjoy a place in Second Life but kept getting annoyed because of objects blocking your camera, or you got lost?”"
Nope can`t say i have
February 28th, 2008 at 7:52 AM
Torley, you forgot to mention control-8 to increase the field of view, I always do that when I in a tight spot, helps me get a better notion of what is aorund me and such
February 28th, 2008 at 9:13 AM
or wireframe view XD
February 28th, 2008 at 9:13 AM
For some reason this vid wont run for me:(
All others have worked fine, anyone else having a problem?
February 28th, 2008 at 9:32 AM
The same here. Try it in an alternate browser, i.e., IE.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:38 AM
When reading the title of the blog-entry, I was hoping for the most usefull (well together with a few others
tip I received in my second life.
Namely the ability to walk slowly (as you would in small spaces) while holding down the space key during movement. I looked for that ability for a long time until a nice resident pointed me in the right direction.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Woohoo!!! Go Blue Hens!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 10:23 AM
@ 17 — HELP! How to get back from Ctrl+8?
February 28th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
@ 17 — Found!
Ctrl+8: zoom out
Ctrl+0: zoom in
Ctrl+9: standard zoom
On MAC you can also use Cmd instead of Ctrl.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Where do I find a reference manual on all the keyboard shortcuts in one document, preferably with PC and MAC entries, indexed by both keys and function produced.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:59 AM
i was waiting for the white outs or black outs when he disables cam controls and moves tightly…but nope…can i have some of what he’s on????…..,mouselook is great except you do need the eyes and mind of a 13 yr old gamer to cope with the motion sickness or need a trainging session at Cloverfield meets Blair Witch movie…..
February 28th, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Not that it matters, but “Mac” isn’t an acronym, so the all-caps just look like the person is shouting or referring to network cards. Sorry. I just see that a lot all over the place, pardon my minor venting.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
@ 13 I think the inbuilt recording is just for doing bug reports.. Would be nice if it was machinima capable though.
Speaking of bug reports, there’s a video on doing them for Blender which features some of Torley’s music. Click my name to see
February 28th, 2008 at 1:24 PM
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February 28th, 2008 at 5:29 PM
FRIENDLY GREETINGS! So nice to see each of you with your feeeedback! I have read all comments, as I almost always do! And…
* Yellow aura is a nice option in Camtasia, my chosen screen capture software. Works well for highlighting bits.
* I record Stereo Mix as well as my mic… yes, it can be done! For more info on that and moar details, see: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Torley_Linden/Vidtut_process and yes, I like http://www.wegame.com as a very fast ‘n’ convenient way to record too!
* Thanx for the additional Mouselook tips, yeah, they’re good enough to make into a followup… !
* Re: more than 25 groups, I think we need to fix the various HOT group-related bugs first before incurring further strain that’d make our social networking very sad.
* I mentioned some of the things above (like Zoom In/Out, walking slowly by holding space) in previous video tutorials, thanks for the reminders! That’s why I keep making them!
* For those of you the video didn’t work in, do you have Flash Player installed? Does YouTube’s own page play it? http://youtube.com/watch?v=63bxfweC5iE
* I’ve heard several requests to do a “cheat sheet” for SL… I figure this is a good one for our Documentation Team/Knowledge Base
* *follows Domino’s link*
Have a lovely everyday!
February 28th, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Torley: have you tried using my tinycam while exploring crampled places?
February 29th, 2008 at 12:03 AM
we’re using http://www.jitbit.com/rss-feed-creator.aspx rss editor, works great
February 29th, 2008 at 9:52 AM
perhaps this could be a feature suggestion, have a section on the preferences window with option to browse and change the keyboard shortcuts, with a buttom to export the current settings as a text file, pdf, image file etc so those who would want could print it out and stick it with tape to the side of their computer monitors or somthing