Second Life
The Official Guide
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Beschreibung
Enjoy your second life
This exclusive guide offers a wealth of tips, analysis, and information about living in Second Life, the rich, multi-layered 3D virtual world inhabited by nearly a million residents. You'll find out everything from how Second Life began and where it's going to the truth about earning a real-world income and what's needed to enjoy the metaverse's vices and virtues.
Authored by Second Life experts and featuring contributions from Linden Lab employees and Second Life residents the world over, this official guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to create his or her own reality in Second Life. The book includes:
* Avatar appearance advice: Customize your look with ease.
* Places to go: Take a grand tour of interesting Second Life locales.
* Things to do: Check out some of Second Life's resident-created in-world events.
* People to meet: Get a taste of Second Life's diverse social scene.
* Building info: Learn how you can create everything from sandals to spaceships.
* Scripting info: Make your projects move, talk, spin around, and more--learn how to script in Second Life from the creator of the Linden Scripting Language himself.
* Economic info: See how you can get the job of your dreams and turn L$ into US$.
Second Life: The Official Guide is perfect for helping you enjoy the world's geography, economy, history, social etiquette, and the range of behaviors and interactions possible.
* Experience Second Life's rich and varied social scene
* Get a tour of Second Life's fantastic places
* Master the skills that let you create anything you can imagine
On the CD
The CD features textures, avatar templates, Avimator animation software, more than a hundred sample animations, and a host of resources to help Second Life builders, scripters, and animators. The CD also features videos created in Second Life and includes a code to?give readers?access to?exclusive in-world content.
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Michael Rymaszewski
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Although not a game in the strictest sense of the word, the increasingly popular virtual world of Second Life shares many commonalities with online gaming environments. Libraries interested in Second Life Library 2.0 (http://infoisland.org) and those serving populations active in virtual environments should pick up a copy of this official, thorough full-color guide. The book walks beginners through getting started in Second Life and customizing their avatars; tells them where to go, what to see, and how to define their virtual existence; and ends with a discussion of the future and impact of Second Life. Its CD contains textures, templates, Avimator animation software, sample animations, videos, and a code for exclusive in-world content. Recommended. (Library Journal, January 15, 2007)".an excellent job of talking through the history of second life." (Trusted Reviews, November 2006).an excellent job of talking through the history of second life.' ( Trusted Reviews, November 2006)
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