Oh, friendly greetings! This is Torley Linden and behind my rather large sword, its nickname the slop chopper because it helps me work more efficiently! It is symbolic for progress and change.
Today, I’d like to give you a tour of my island. It’s called Here, as in you are here. And here is how you get Here.
You go to the map and right here you type in “Here”. If you’re already familiar with this, good, and if you’re not, that’s why I’m showing you how. So search, and Here comes up, and the map tells you to load it shortly. I want to show this to you because it is pretty fun. You can teleport anywhere here so to speak, so let’s just double click or you can click on a single place and teleport.
And now, we are on our way to Here. So a reintroduction if you’re not familiar with me or not entirely sure what I do, I landed in the watermelon patch. I have to get back to Drako later.
This is an island of Resident Enlightenment. That’s my job. I’m the Resident Enlightenment Manager at Linden Lab and my job largely focuses on—oh, a movie is going to play right there—I create video tutorials and I teach Second Life skills for these tutorials. I show what’s possible in Second Life, both from a technically and functionally perspective, and for more aesthetic and artistic and creative one.
So, let me just—I don’t have to stop it actually. The sounds are off right now, I just got that muted. So right here on Here, if I draw back, I’d love you to come on over and visit my island. Because what it’s all about is showing the process of how things are done in Second Life, and I really, really am a strong and fervent advocate of getting more Lindens to spend time in Second Life of course and be a part of this world just as you are, and that’s why I’m here. Several ideas kind of congealed and I asked Harmony, the concierge team, to help me get this island set up, and then my wife and I have been collaborating on this. And by the way, some things are much easier to do in First Life still like waving your hands while you’re going, “Oh, I want this too. I want that where?”
Okay, so I guess the movie screen changed. So, let me get things started. Let me just stop that. What you’re going to see here, we’re in the terraforming land box because I know that—I’m sure there’s some public sandboxes, but to find something which allows you to terraform if you don’t own land, that is especially valuable. And here it is right here.
What you can do of course if you don’t know the slightest thing about terraforming, you can sit and watch this tutorial. And notice for example how on every screen, every tutorial station looks somewhat the same, and I have the movie set to start. But if I didn’t and I stop it, it will show on the screen. It’s a basic design, “On”, “Yes”, “Play” or OYP as I call it. So it shows you on your preferences, you need to have this on, yes, and play it.
And I made use of click actions. You are noticing right now that the cursor is a play icon. This is because if I right click this—let me show the UI—edit, and more and general, it’s set to play parcel media the movie. So for your simplicity enjoyment if you have it set up to play medial like it shows, very simple, you can click to start the movie, and it will start like that. And then you can go ahead and click the chair, a single left click with the click action to have a seat. Oopps, I’m kind of buried. I think that’s because of my animation overrider.
I do digress—or not digress, it’s right on top of that—this is a work in progress. There are experiments; there are things that are going to change. You can click on a question mark by the way to learn what each station is about. It’s a little short text explanation; sometimes it’s short like a haiku. I didn’t want to bore you, but I want to give some context as to what it is you’re experiencing here.
So this is rather free roaming for your exploration. Of course, after I learn how to terraform, after you learn how to terraform, anyone is welcome to come over here to the terraform box, the land box, and then you can go ahead. And then it’
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