Creating Your World, w. CD-ROM: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life - Softcover

Weber, Aimee; Rufer-Bach, Kimberly; Platel, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470171146 ISBN 13: 9780470171141

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life will explain in detail how to create and use Second Life content, covering such important skills as building, texturing, clothes making, scripting, animating, and terraforming. The reference and tutorial will feature a light-hearted, fun, conversational tone, and each chapter's discussions will be reinforced by tutorials to engage and empower the reader. An included CD will be packed with resources, including before-and-after files for the tutorials, clothing and character templates, machinima, relevant software demos, and other resources provided by Linden Lab.Co-authored by noted residents and expert content creators Catherine Winters (Catherine Omega in Second Life) and Alyssa LaRoche (Aimee Weber in Second Life), this official, exclusive guide follows a logical progression that builds upon a reader's skills so that new and intermediate content creators will quickly become experts. The book begins with an overview of Second Life basics, including movement, inventory, and the client/server debug menu before discussing the basics of working with primitives, Second Life's building blocks. A chapter on advanced building techniques is followed by detailed information on the art of texturing and lighting. A clothing and accessories chapter then discusses everything from fabric and button choices to adding wrinkles and shadows for attaining a high level of realism. A scripting basics chapter is then followed by advanced scripting information so that readers will learn how to create scripts to communicate with residents and other scripts as well as manage data and interact with the world. Third-party editors, script testing and debugging, and specific scripts for vehicles, weapons, games, animators, particles, motion, and inventory are also discussed. The book then discusses global factors for creating a great user experience, including build scale, accessibility, Uis, and ease of use before discussing terraforming and land tools, estate tools and how to import terrain.Creating animations is covered next, including useful tools and their conventions as well as creating complex animations, including gestures. Dealing with performance issues and lag through efficient builds, scripts, and precaching techniques is discussed, and then the authors discuss everything needed to make movies (machinima) in Second Life. Finally, an uber tutorial (creating and texturing an airplane, scripting it, creating poses for pilots and passengers, and adding sound effects) reinforces everything learned in the book. Appendices include building, scripting, animating and miscellaneous resources, and the book's CD features tutorial files, textures, clothing templates, machinima, demo software, and resources and references provided by Linden Lab.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aimee Weber is the founder and CEO of Aimee Weber Studio (www.AimeeWeber.com), one of the largest and most celebrated content creation companies in Second Life.

Kimberly Rufer-Bach, a.k.a. Kim Anubis, is owner, designer, and producer of The Magicians (www.themagicians.us), one of the oldest and most innovative content development companies in Second Life.

Richard Platel, a.k.a. Wednesday Grimm, is a professional software developer. He has been a Second Life resident and LSL scripter since the public beta in 2004.

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Your second life is what you make it

Enrich your virtual existence by mastering the techniques and tactics the experts use to create jaw-dropping SL content everything from buildings and vehicles to clothing, landscapes, and animations. This official, exclusive guide from a team of Second Life content-creation experts was written with the full support of Linden Lab and features in-depth instructions for creating beautiful content and putting it to work in-world.

Start a new fashion trend with custom clothing featuring realistic buttons, pockets, patterns, and even wrinkles. Tour SL in the car of your dreams or in your own private jet. Create cool animations and scripts to communicate with other SL residents, and more. Both a practical, step-by-step guide and a creative session with some of the most artistic and talented minds in the Second Life community, this book will quickly build your skills and inspire you to join Second Life's elite ranks of content creators.

• Basic concepts: Understand movement, inventory, and client/server issues

• Advanced building: Morph prims and design anything with these advanced techniques

• SL scripting programs and third-party editors: Use a variety of tools to write, test, and debug scripts for vehicles, games, motion, and more

• Become a virtual pioneer: Start terraforming with SL land tools

• Dazzle visitors: Make an impact with textures, lighting, landscaping, and more

• Go Hollywood: Storyboard, shoot film, add sound effects, and produce machinima

• Real communication: Manage data, chat, and send e-mail in-world and out

On the CD
The book's CD features tutorial files, textures, clothing and character templates, machinima, cool tools, and a host of other resources provided by Linden Lab to help Second Life content creators.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470171146
• ISBN 13: 9780470171141
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar