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Would you like to learn to script or build in Second Life? We have three books that will help! Each of these books can be bought for Linden Dollars(using the SLExchange links below). They can also be purchased in paperback form by clicking on the book's title. Clicking on the book's title will also give you additional information about the book.

Notecard Givers in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 09:12
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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 in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 14:10
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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.

Building Jet Packs in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 07:45
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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.

January 22, 2008: 'Second Lifers': Stop Buying, Start Making Cool Stuff With INTRO TO LINDEN SCRIPTING LANGUAGE

Submitted by jeffheaton on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 15:40
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Third S.L. Book Makes Heaton The Leader in Third-party S.L. Books

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- INTRODUCTION TO LINDEN SCRIPTING LANGUAGE FOR SECOND LIFE (ISBN: 1604390042) is now on sale at Amazon.com and other leading online booksellers. The 236-page book can also be purchased at http://www.heatonresearch.com/. MSRP is $24.99 (U.S.).

What is Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 08:12
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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.

Creating Simple Cars in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 21:40
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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.

Ferris Wheels in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 18:18
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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!

Introduction to the Linden Scripting Language with Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 23:40
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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

Introduction to Textures, Animation, Audio and Sculpting in Second Life

Submitted by jeffheaton on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 23:17
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Users of the Second Life online world create a rich three dimensional
world around them. Much of this creation is done inside of the actual
Second Life world. However, it is necessary to use third party programs
to create compelling content for Second Life. Through rich full-color
images this book guides the beginning Second Life content creator
through third party programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Avimator, GIMP,
Audacity and Sculptypaint. Topics such as transparent images, alpha
channels, audio editing, three dimensional animation and sculpting are

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