User:Duckie Dickins

About Duckie Dickins

I joined Second Life back in October of 2006 after being pestered for half a year by a close friend (Alana Czervik) to come check it out. We played a MUD together for a few years before I got involved with Eve Online for several more years but kept in touch over instant messenger. After telling me about Second Life over the span of half a year, she finally convinced me to take a break from Eve Online and see what Second Life was all about.

I spent the first two weeks hanging out with Alana and attending a few building classes hosted by now defunct TUI-Neo back when instructors received L$ for giving classes inworld. I then discovered TUI-Neo also had classes on scripting in LSL and was encouraged by Alana that scripting was where all the action was. At that point I was hooked. I chair camped for L$ every day to earn the 35 L$ for each of the 1 hour classes that spanned 7 days.

Having completed my 7 day LSL course I dove head first into the world of LSL Scripting and have had quite an amazing Second Life existence. Thanks Alana!

I spend most of my time with a very talented content creator, Lexbot Sinster. We are currently collaborating with a number my current projects listed below as well as being my roleplay partner in crime and the girl I'm crazy about.

Things I Do

• LSL Scripter
• Melee Weapon, Roleplay Props & Accessories Developer
• Avid Freeform Roleplayer

Current Projects

• sublime-text-2-lsl - LSL Sytax Highlight for Sublime Text - Project Contributor
• Project Prometheus - Roleplay and Combat Immersion System - Lead Developer

Past Projects

(No longer associated with)

• Dynamic Combat System 2 - Systems Administrator and interim Lead Developer.
• Toxian City - Senior Game Master and Administrator

Public Code Repositories

• Duckie's Github - There is where I keep my public git repositories

Second Life Mailing Lists

• Second Life Scripters - Discussion of scripting in Second Life - script challenges, bugs and related topics.
• Server Beta - Good list to join if you attend the Server Beta User Group Meetings with Caleb Linden
• Jira Notify - Automatic notification of changes made on Second Life Jira
• Combat Developers - Members of this list are combat developers in Second Life and vested in improving the capabilities of Linden Lab simulators to facilitate their unique needs

In-world meetings with Linden Developers

• Server/Sim/Scripting - Simon Linden's Server/Sim/Scripting Meeting - Tuesday Noon SLT
• Server Beta - Caleb LInden's Server Beta Meeting on the beta grid - Thursday 3PM SLT

*Second Life Jira

• BUG-1786 - llSetLinkAlpha fails to update properly on fraction of attached prims when many prims are updated simultaneously

Combat in Second Life

• Combat/Systems - List of Combat Systems

LSL Portal

• Pathfinding_in_Second_Life - Creating Pathfinding characters
• LSL_Alternate_Editors - External editors for coding in LSL
• LSL_Library - Huge library of LSL scripts
• Category:LSL Needs Example - These functions need example code. Contribute!
• Category:LSL FixMe - These pages need updating. Contribute!

Open LSL Script Protocols

• MLPV2 - Multi Love Pose v2 API
• nPose - nPose Furniture Pose Menu System
• LSL Protocol/LockMeister System - LockMeister Particle Chain System

Building

Good_Building_Practices - A collection of officially verified building practices for moderate to advanced creators

3D Video Tutorials

Daz3d Hexagon

• GeekAtPlay - Discovering Hexagon
• GeekAtPlay - Expanding your skills - Tutorials 1-27
• GeekAtPlay - Expanding your skills - Tutorials 28-55
• GeekAtPlay - Expanding your skills - Tutorials 56-85
• GeekAtPlay - Expanding your skills - Tutorials 86-115

Daz3d Carrara

• PxlEyes - Misc Carrara Tutorials

Blender

• PxlEyes - Misc Blender Tutorials

Daz Studio

• PxlEyes - Misc Daz Studio Tutorials

Maya

• PxlEyes - Misc Maya Tutorials

Rhino

• PxlEyes - Misc Rhino Tutorials

ZBrush

• PxlEyes - Misc ZBrush Tutorials