Another great Second Life YouTube video by Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University. This time he shows how to create a notecard giver. One of the notecard givers in this video makes use of the notecard giver script found in Scripting Recipes for Second Life. A notecard giver allows you to pass out notecards, or really any Second Life object, to visitors in Second Life. Notecard givers are very common in the Second Life world. See how to create your own!

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Jet bands are similar to jet packs in Second Life. This is a simple device that you wear about the wrist of your avatar. It allows you to fly above the 200m limit imposed by Second Life. This two-part YouTube video shows how to create a jet band. This is a user contributed video, I did not make it, though it is based on code from Scripting Recipes for Second Life. It is very well done and I am sure it enjoy it. It was created by Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University.

What are particles? They are 2D effects that are used for many purposes. They allow jewelry to sparkle, create explosions, allow smoke from chimneys, and many other effects. However, to create particles you must create a complex list of parameters. Particles can be difficult in Second Life.

Jet Packs can be very useful in Second Life. A jet pack allows you to fly much higher than Second Life normally allows. This video tutorial shows how to create a jet pack that not only allows you to fly higher than the limits imposed by Second Life, but also includes a hover feature that holds your avatar in place when it is high up.

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What is Second Life? This video provides a brief introduction to what Second Life is. This video shows the basic forms of avatars, as well as houses for avatars. Different activities are also covered. Heaton Research carries several books about content creation in the Second Life virtual world.

This video shows how to create simple cars in Second Life. I will take you step by step as a car is built. A script will be added to the car. This script is shown below. In this video I show how to set the root prim, create proper wheels and finally, add the script to the car.

This ferris wheel was one of my first creations in Second Life that used the Linden Scripting Language. The somewhat tricky part is to keep the cars upright as the wheel spins. This takes a little basic trig, but is not too hard. This is my first YouTube production, and is mostly meant to allow me to get used to moving Second Life content into YouTube. I hope to provide video tutorials for some of my book's material. Stay tuned!

The Linden Scripting Language allows residents of the
Second Life World to program the three dimensional objects around them.
Without this programming objects built in Second Life are motionless
and non-interactive. Adding a script enables an object to interact with
the world around it. Second Life scripts allow objects such as cars,
planes, amusement park rides, weapons and other entertainment devices
to be created. This book teaches the beginning Second Life programmer
to make use of the basics of the Linden Scripting Language. Language