Brick a Brac...is that a real word?

Photos: To make some really nice photos

Make a note of any settings you change in case they slow down your system.
Go to Preferences
Advanced Graphics
Check anisotropic filtering Assuming you have a good graphics card, this is enough to smooth ugly edges

Also do this:

Preferences
Graphics Detail If the primary subject of your snapshot is an avatar or object, then consider increasing mesh detail sliders for these things
Then
Hold down Ctrl + Alt + D to enable 'Client' and 'Server' menus at the top of the screen. Select 'Hi-Res Snapshot' from the 'Client' menu.


Oh new cool thing now is Post cards!! Whole blog will be made on this feature.


Neat gadgets
Titlers : Those color text items above your AV. This one gives you a choice of colors and flash.

string command = "";
string person = "";
key owner;
string title;

default
{
state_entry()
{
owner = llGetOwner();
llListen(63,"",owner,"");
llSetTimerEvent(0.0);
}

attach(key attached)
{
if (attached != NULL_KEY)
{
llOwnerSay("To set a title:/63 title


Loop Sound Script: Just jab this in a prim and a wav you want rename the sound part the exact name of the wav.

default
{state_entry()
{
llLoopSound("waterfall sound", 1.0);
//replace "waterfall sound" with the name of your sound of choice (don't forget the quotation marks)

// 1.0 is full volume - 0.0 is silent
//llStopSound();
//Just to make life easy if you need to stop the sound
}
}

Poofers...poofers...poof....poo...po...p

I like poofers!!

I'm gonna share because I care.

I made the snow flakes myself tho.

We will make images later in another post.

So you Rezz a box or sphere on the ground.

Make it kinda of tiny and transparent. Because we are going to wear this some where on your AV and we don't want it showing on you.

In the contents of the prim you add this script

and a texture or a gesture :D

So in the prim you have that script below and some texture.

The texture is what blows out when you say "bink" or whatever your key word is.

If you notice I put a word in bold "poof" in the script. Thats the key word you say in chat or make a gesture to say it for you.

You can change that word to anything you want to type in chat like "Jacks".

The other bold word or number is for the chat channel you use your gesture on. Zero is the default channel but I used 13.

So when I want to activate my poof I type /13bink.

Mhmm my keyword is bink :D

The script to add is below -

string texture;string keyword = "bink";
updateParticles(){ llParticleSystem([0,256,1,<1.00,1.00,1.0>,2,1.0,5,<1.75,1.75,1.75>,7,8.0,9,2,12,texture,13,0.1,15,12,17,0.5,18,0.5,19,2.0]); llSleep(2.5); llParticleSystem([]);}
integer channel = 13;
integer Handle;default{ state_entry() { texture = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_TEXTURE, 0); Handle = llListen (channel, "", llGetOwner(), ""); } changed(integer change) { if (change & CHANGED_OWNER) llResetScript(); }
listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string msg) { if (msg == keyword) { updateParticles(); } else if (llToLower(llGetSubString(msg, 0, 10)) == "set keyword") { keyword = llToLower(llDeleteSubString(msg, 0, 11)); llOwnerSay("Keyword set to "+keyword); } else if (llToLower(llGetSubString(msg, 0, 10)) == "set channel") { if ((channel = ((integer)llDeleteSubString(msg, 0, 11))) < channel =" 0;" handle =" llListen">

The bold part is what changes the Size of the texture that is poofing out. Change all three of those values to make the Images larger or smaller

Sounds - Can I Get More Annoying?

Sounds are like Photos that you upload to SL.

If you check out File on top of Menu screen and select Upload Sounds, thats where you upload them.

Valid sounds are any .WAV file in standard PCM format.

They can only be less than 10 seconds in length and no more, if they are more they won't upload. SL is very picky...I guess they don't want you loading a whole song. :D

Ok so here we go, I’ve done a few little tweaks here and there and came up with this and went a little crazy on some of my own wav files.

First thing I did was go to this site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and downloaded this converter.
I tried the standard Windows Sound Recorder that comes on every PC but never had the same results as I have with this.

Do the down load on that web site. The set it up easy peasy and its free.

For Wavs.

So next I did a Google of free wav files.

I chose this site but there are a million: http://www.ilovewavs.com/
Searched on that page and found the one I wanted.

A SL wav sound needs to have the following settings: 1. 44100 Hz/16 bit/Stereo

2. PCM WAV format only (ACM/ADPCM will not work)

3. Sound must be equal to or less than 9.99 seconds in length.

For some cool reason the Audacity will do this for you in one whack.

Now I have a friend that has this Vincent Price laugh and it cracks me up and everyone always wants it but it’s a no copy… Well, not anymore :D

I found the Laugh wav and right clicked it and “save target as” this will ask you to save it to your hard drive. I made a "Wav" folder and copied it there.

Now hopefully on your desktop there is Audacity Icon so double click it. This is how it opens.

File and Open and locate your sound you want to convert in the folder that you hopefully made called Wavs. (organized to a fault I know).

Audacity is basically like those old tape players with Stop and Play and Pause buttons. You can even break out a Mic and record you own Wavs.

Now you can see it loaded with a wav.

Make sure at the bottom it’s the correct settings with Project rate at 44100. There is a pull down tab to change that. If you feel the sound isnt going to be loud enough or some thing else you can always up the volume or whatever under Effects Tab. You have to select the Wav to use the Effects.

File again and Export Wav As.

I renamed mine the same and just added a 1 on the end so I wouldnt corrupt the orignal file. (Another box pops up where you are saving it to.)

Thats it! Now upload to SL just as you would a picture and enjoy! Orrrr to have even more fun, go to my Gestures Tut and take those new wavs a step futher!

TIP:
How do you change your voice on SL in the sounds? Say you are a guy but your "Whatever" is a girl voice.

Right click your AV and a pie chart will come up find the Gesture and then find the offending Gesture and right click it.

On the right side of the Edit menu, highlight sound "whatever" Female. Just below that is a drop down menu titled Sound to play. Click the arrow and scroll to select a new sound. In this case you can choose "whatever" Male then save.

Shirts-Down & Dirty

I’m cheap, not really! Hey I have a low paying job as I go to school, so yeah SL is kinda expenseive for me. :D I like to make things on SL and one super easy thing to make is a quick shirt. Instead of me getting an SL sunburn I do this.

(sings "I'm too sexy for my shirt...") pfft....
Open up Inventory and Click the "Create" Tab on the top and Find "Clothes" and then "Shirt"

Now you will find a file called “New Shirt”.

Right click and an “Wear”

TADAAAHH! Ok we aren't done yet folks.

Right click yourself and Choose “Appearance”

Edit box Pops up. Choose “Shirt” tab.

Now if you remember playing around with the Sliders when you first started SL (gawd I do) you will know what to do here. Just adjust things like you want, if you want to change the color, go for it, the sleeve length --yep its there to change. Have a texture you might want to add, slap it on there! Change to your hearts desire! Just remember to save! If you dont like it or want another, just click yourself and Edit again and this time do a "Save as"

Have fun with you new cheapo clothes…..try it on other things.. Exlpore!!!

Ok one more tip!

Search Harbingers Havin, they have the coolest vendor there with textures and one is of those very jeans I'm wearing. FREE!!

Thats right folks I made those jeans as well. Just do all the steps above but chose "Pants" Then search the Havin and walk up to one of the three vendors and locate the "materials" button and scroll through until you find the jeans. Attach that as a texture to you newly created ones and weet! They have a shirt there as well but I didnt have time to try it out.

Some Tiny Tips

To see how your computer is running Crtl-Shift-1
A good standard of numbers is FPS 10-20 with not many people in the sim.
Bandwidth 20-100kbps



Chat:
People can hear you up to 20 meters away and 100 meters in shouts. I think it’s a good rule if you cant read their name title they cant hear you.


Shortcuts:

Ctrl-G Gestures

Ctrl-H Chat History

Ctrl-I Inventory

Ctrl-M World Map

Ctrl-P Preferences

Ctrl-R Run Mode - do it again and you stop running.

Ctrl-T Instant Message

Ctrl-U Upload Image

Ctrl-Alt-T Highlight Transparent

Ctrl-Alt-6 All Fog Off - handy in laggy/foggy sims.

Ctrl-Shift-M MiniMap

Ctrl-Shift-S Snapshots

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-= Turn particle effects on/off.

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3 Removes all the trees - do it again and they return

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-5 Removes ground cover. - do it again and they return


Bump reports can tell you rammed into you.