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Ai Austin's Tips for Getting More from Second Life and Opensim
- SL Command Line Options - e.g., run multiple viewers (-multiple), log in with specific users (-login first last password), etc.
- Enable Advanced menu in SL Viewer with Ctrl/Alt/D, on a Mac use Cmd/Opt/Shift/D
- 10 debug options you should know about
- Advanced -> Disable Camera Constraints and Advanced -> Limit Camera Distance=Off
- Advanced -> Debug Settings -> ZoomTime=4.00 to have cinematic transitions (0.4 is default)
- Turn off typing animation and sounds... Advanced -> Debug Settings -> PlayTypingAnim=false
- Turn UI/user interface elements off and back on - e.g. for machinima - with Ctrl/Alt/F1
- Turn on lip sync for your avatar via Advanced -> Character -> Enable Lip Sync
- Some faults with the Nvidia FX Graphics card - e.g. overlay of media texture across areas of the land - may be reduced by using... Advanced -> Debug Settings -> RenderUseFBO=true
- To use a 3D mouse such as 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator - Edit ->Preferences -> Input and Camera -> Setup Joystick -> Enable Joystick
- Linden Labs Tips
- SL high-quality photography and cranking up Nividia graphics card settings for SL.
Long Distance High Quality Snapshots: Advanced menu > Debug Settings and type the setting's name in the top box and press Enter. You'll see its parameters appear, and some help text to guide you on your way.
RenderDynamicLOD = FALSE
RenderFarClip = 1024
RenderUseFarClip = FALSE
- SL high-quality photography and cranking up Nividia graphics card settings for SL.
- Rebake avatar textures if necessary with Ctrl/Alt/R
- Hide objects on land to see underlying land and propertly lines - Ctrl/Shift/Alt+1
- Duplicate objects in situ with Shift+Left Mouse Click
- Beta Grid Access: the normal Second Life viewer is used. At the login screen, hit Ctrl/Shift/G. At the bottom of the screen to the right of the "Quit" button, you will see a dropdown widget that allows you to select the grid that you want to log in to. Select "Agni" to log into Second Life. Select "Aditi" to log into the Preview Grid. Others are Linden Labs development grids not available for public access.
- Freeview - How to stream video into Second Life
- Convert YouTube video format to MP4 - to allow its use in Second Life
- Merlin Rocket
- AIAI Streaming Tests from Merlin Rocket
- Origin Digital's Odaptor platform for Second Life added video capabilities
- SLFace - Face, Body and Clothing based on real photos
- FaceGen - from Singular Inversions (as used in Twinity)
- Importing 3D Models into Second Life
- Importing 3D Models into Second Life
- AutoCAD Comes to Second Life
- SLTk Pro Brings Maya Objects into Second Life
- COLLADA - 3D Model importing - e.g. Playstation 3, PSP, Google Earth. Can be created by Sketchup, etc.
- How to give a PowerPoint briefing in Second Life
- Augmented Virtual Reality
- Second Life Futures
- Scaling Second Life for Richer Experience - chat with Zero Linden - 18-Sep-2007
- Second Life Future Architecture Working Group
- Open Source Second Life Web Services API/Libaries
- Example XML-RPC Code for communications to and from Second Life
- Ajax Client for Second Life
- Indication of Second Life Server to go open source - 25-Aug-2007
- SimTeach - education related LSL scripts
- Scripting Recipies for Second Life - Jeff Heaton [Download Scripts]
- Openmetaverse - including LibOpenmetaverse - replacement for the frozen libsecondlife
- Meerkat Open Source Viewer - for Second Life and Cross-Grids
- LibSecondLife - final release 0.5.0
- LibSecondLife - Wikipedia Entry
- LibSecondLife-Java
- SL Trip Tips - Second Life tips, secrets and touring guides
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