I show you how to play parcel music in Second Life — including Internet radio stations — in less than 10 minutes! Yes, it’s really that simple, and along the way, I highlight good things to know.
00:17 - Setup Second Life for playing music 01:49 - Get a music URL from your web browser 02:44 - Play a music URL in Second Life 03:38 - Find Internet radio stations to play in SL 05:19 - View a playlist file to get the music URL (in iTunes) 06:29 - Get the music URL (in Winamp) 06:59 - Get the music URL (in a text editor) 07:29 - More radio stations to get music URLs 08:20 - Working URLs do not end in M3U or PLS 09:38 - Hide a music URL
Friendly greetings! Torley, enthusiastic teacher of Second Life skills here. For your ease-of-use, I’ve reorganized the big page o’ Video Tutorials so you can faster find what you want to learn. One of the new features is that when you view the lists for “Tip of the Week” (30+ of ‘em) and “Quicktips” (75+!), columns can be sorted by category! Also, I’ll be updating the main page regularly to show highlights from my most recent videos. Experience for yourself.
In addition, I’m continually working on longer-term plans for easier searching of vidtuts, including getting more of them in our Knowledge Base and plugging them in other places as-needed; it’s good to have lots of knowledge, but even better to be able to find it.
With that being said, it’s only fair I share 20 more quick tips with you! Filmed in Second Life 1.20 Release Candidate, most of these have been suggested by some of you (thank-you!), and they’re a delicious assortment of hints ‘n’ tricks that you’ll learn something new & useful from! As I like to advertise,
“Short on time? Quicktips deliver your knowledge in 2 minutes or less, guaranteed.”
Another HOT topic I’ve been asked to do! Sculpted prims are enjoyed by the masses, but making them is a mystery to many because they’re mostly modeled with external tools. Fear not, for with Sculptypaint by Cel Edman, I show you in a little over 10 minutes JUST HOW EASY it can be to make sculpties. Even if you’ve never built anything before.
With your newfound sculptie skills, you’ll be able to astound, amuse, and amaze avatars of the opposite and/or same gender. Watch the video, follow along, and feel good about yourself:
You can download the same sculpt & surface textures I used in the video for examination.
You can also watch another video showing that sculpties + shiny + atmospheric rendering (WindLight) rocks! (All those shapes were made in Sculptypaint in a few minutes.)
LAND is GRAND and here we STAND… in a continuing quest to amplify your awesome, Torley of Linden presents almost a dozen new Second Life® Video Tutorials having anything and everything to dowith LAND! What is it? How to buy & sell? How is it managed? What about shaping the ground? Need to eject troublemakers and set your parcel to deter them?! Oh my gosh… have you ever wanted to know what all those options in About Land do? Here are your answers and more, in almost 2 hours of FREE vidtuts!
Here’s the whole list. They’re loosely arranged in an order you should watch them for maximum benefit and I weave a story through several — but feel free to skip around:
00:07 - What is land in Second Life? 01:43 - Regions, parcels, & prim limits 04:23 - Premium accounts & land ownership 04:56 - Searching for land 05:14 - Different kinds of land for sale 05:34 - Differences between Mainland & Estates 10:00 - Increasing your knowledge of what land to buy 10:33 - Teleporting to land you’re interested in 11:09 - About Land basics 12:33 - A few words of advice…
Land use introduction
00:36 - What are allowed land holdings? 00:54 - Managing land use on SECONDLIFE.COM
Region & parcel prim limits
00:13 - What are prim limits? 01:18 - A note about “primfficiency” 02:06 - Shared parcel prim limits within a region 03:13 - Abandon Land demo
So our gangs of skilled Moles are ready with the components to expand the Second Life road network. We’ll try to match the roads to the terrain, and to the existing road styles … but our eager little insectivores have some creative ideas, too.
For the first wave of expansion, we’ve identified half a dozen routes in the “Atoll” continent. Here are the proposed routes and the survey. Make your choice!
We’ll give the survey until at least Friday to run, and then we’ll put the LDPW to work. Wave when you see a mole in a distinctive orange vest, and remember to “give ‘em a brake” when you’re driving in a construction zone.
[UPDATE on 1 May 2008] We’ve had 653 responses to the poll as of 2:18 pm SLT today. 35.9% of the respondents chose Route 1 as their first choice, followed by Route 2 with 25.8%. Route 2 had 25.7% of the second choice votes, followed by Route 1 with 20.0%.
Routes 5 and 6 never got more than 7% each in the first and second choice polls … third choice voting was spread pretty evenly among all the routes.
Our moles will begin work immediately on Route 1. Thank you for your votes and the discussion!
Friendly greetings! I’ll start with a thank-you, and this is important because of you: Second Life Video Tutorials have been viewed a total of 2 million times on YouTube. To respond to your rising requests and flood of feedback, I made 77 in the first quarter of 2008 — not counting the few-dozen that are in varying states of completion — and more will come, I promise.
My goals (who I am and what I do) continue to focus on making Second Life learning fun, fast, & friendly, and of chief importance in Q208 is getting the word out to Residents new, old, and yet-to-be who could benefit from the vidtuts but aren’t finding them (yet).
Ever want to learn how to make animations for use with Second Life? You’re just in luck! It’s been a popular request, and in spending some of my time to save a lot of yours, here’s the video tutorial… ENJOY!
This video tutorial was filmed in Second Life 1.20 RC1, hence the light blue “Dazzle” colors. If you’re on the main 1.19.1 viewer, everything key still works the same, just looks different.
This is gonna sound like an infomercial, but within minutes of opening up the box, I had the drivers installed and was using the SpaceNavigator with Second Life. What you see “on tape” are my very first reactions — it was very easy to get started and have fun! Also note that I filmed this in an internal version before 1.20, so the interface colors are different but the functionality is the same! So here goes:
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to use the Graphics Preferences and what all those options do!Related, some compatibility issues are alleviated by clicking the “Custom” checkbox and disabling specific options. As witnessed in Pastrami’s 1.19.1 viewer post and the subsequent comments, it’d be most helpful to have more explanation. So today’s tip is ALL ABOUT THAT!
Here’s an index of this very special ~half-hour programme:
00:23 - Opening the Graphics Preferences
01:11 - Exploring Custom options
02:05 - What are shaders, shiny, & bump mapping?
05:11 - Water Reflections
08:04 - Draw Distance
08:47 - Max. Particle Count
09:11 - Post Process Quality (Glow)
10:00 - Mesh Detail sliders
15:58 - Using local lights
17:37 - Hardware Skinning & Avatar Cloth
19:21 - Customization tips ‘n’ tricks
19:56 - Hardware Options featuring antialiasing!
23:44 - Avatar Impostors boost performance
26:34 - YOU HAVE THE POWER!
Show notes:
This video tutorial was filmed in 1.20 RC, hence the different “Dazzle” colors — if you’re on 1.19.1, most of the stuff works the same with the notable exceptions of Antialiasing and Statistics Bar’s appearance. And yeah, I know how crashy the Release Candidate is for some of you… that’s why I crashed in the middle of making it! We hope to have those kinks fixed soon; I don’t just feel your pain, I live it — and the same is true for the joys you experience.
Re: Anisotropic Filtering, since it was hard to get a pristine image due to video compression, click to enlarge this and pay attention to the crispness of textures at angles (big image, give it some time to load):
Trivia: About 2 years ago before we had a fine Documentation Team (Jon, Jeremy, & Kate who do the Knowledge Base Article of the Week), I wrote & edited the early Graphics Preferences article. And here I am doing a video… I love a good followup.
Amidst the storms, we carry on — and the watermelon guru has returned to bring you… yes, that’s right, more video tutorials (AKA screencasts) to help you learn Second Life! And if there’s a particular theme for this one, it’s things that make you go:
“I wish I knew that when I started my Second Life!”
Wishes do come true.
QUICKTIPS “Volume 4″ Video Tutorials!Your knowledge in 2 min. or less, guaranteed! Click a title to watch:
We hope to have those kinks fixed soon; I don’t just feel your pain, I live it — and the same is true for the joys you experience.
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