What is second life?
Well friend.. leme tell ya..
Artist build session 3/4/08
In this session Rez showed everyone the rotating sculpt texture scripts. This one is a little tricky.. When you rez a prim in SL, like a box, its square. Normally you can apply any texture to it and make it look like any square thing you want. A sculpt texture on the other hand, is something all together different. It allows SL to modify the shape of an object based on the color of the texture applied. So if you take a square, and apply a white sculpt texture with a red band in the middle, it will warp the shape of the object around the red color band. Different colors cause different actions. The scripts we explored last night will take a standard texture and apply it as a sculpt textur to a prim. It will then rotate through any other textures you have included, morphing the shape of the object on a schedule.
It was all pretty freaking cool. The sculpts you see changed shape every two seconds or so. I really need to get on uploading the code for these sessions…
Artist build session 2/26/08
Last night the Virtual Artist Alliance held another Artists building session. These sessions are designed to show new and experienced users new techniques in scripting and building in Second Life. This week we went over particle paths. The demostration code and objects showed how to rez particles on one object and have them automatically flow to another object. After a brief demonstration, we were turned loose to create and experiment with the new code. I’ll post the code as soon as I can.
Second Life tutorials from Torly Linden
Holy crap these are useful. Even the basic ones tend to drop a new nugget of information..
If second life were real..
It would look like this…
Reactive sculptures gathering
Late post, I know, but I just found the video from Magellan about a recent gathering of artists in second life. We all gathered to learn about reactive scripts.
The scripts can be embedded in any object. When active, they can change the properties of the object based on the proximity of an avatar. The scripts we were handed could change the color, size and rotation.
The building session was quite successful. In case your interested, I’m the one that jumps off the stairs and attempts to fly away before gracelessly slamming back into the stairs and falling down. 
If anyone wants the scripts, let me know.
The VAA (Virtual Artist Aliance) will be hosign open builds to learn and share tricks every Tuesday night at 6pm SL time at this location.
