SL7B: Reveling in Unexpected Collaborations An extravaganza with a magnitude yet unseen before is how the seventh birthday bash of Second Life this June 21–July 3 has been shaping up to be. Not even the “strategic restructuring” that was announced by Linden Lab (LL) on June 9 resulting in an anticipated 30 percent reduction in its staff could put a dampener on the celebrations for SL’s seventh birthday (SL7B). Yes siree, mademoiselles, if you please, SL7B flies high under its thematic “Unexpected Collaboration” banner.
Linden Homes
On February 17th, LindenLabs unveiled their Linden Homes for premium customers. As a premium customer, in world for less than a year, regardless of what my “rezdate” may say (I rolled up an avatar, wandered around for about 20 minutes, and logged out, not to return for several months.), this news made me pretty happy. I should say now, that while I'm a happy premium customer, I only..
Live like a Na'vi on Pandora in Second Life
I've seen Avatar, not once, but four times, and soon will be watching it for the fifth. I'll be in line to get that DVD when it comes out. If you're like me and many others, wanting to experience the forests of Pandora, to fly an Ikran, and to ride a direhorse, you can! Or if you identified more with the military and the collection of Unubtanium, you can also do that.
After seeing Avatar each time, I'd return home to search Second Life for Pandora worlds, signs of the Na'vi wandering about. For weeks my searches produced zilch. Then one day, after returning home from seeing Avatar again..
Scripting 101: Running Scripts
The first post in this series described how to create a script in Second Life. In this post, we'll show you how to place the script into an object in-world and get it running.
In order for a script to run it must be in an object; scripts can't run when they're in your inventory -- or when the object they're in is in your inventory, either, for that matter. So the first thing you need is an object to put your script into.