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.

Things I Do

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

Current Projects

• Project Prometheus - Roleplay and Combat Immersion System - Lead Developer

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
• Content Creation - Vir Linden's Content Creation Group - Thursday 1PM SLT
• Web - Grumpity & Alexa Linden's Web User Group (Marketplace/Search/etc) - Every other Friday 2:30PM SLT

*Second Life Jira

• BUG-139300 - [Animesh] Add RC_REJECT_ANIMATED to llCastRay RC_REJECT_TYPES

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
• AVsitter - Github repository for AVsitter scripts

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 - Hexagon Projects - Series 1
• GeekAtPlay - Hexagon Projects - Series 2
• GeekAtPlay - Hexagon Projects - Series 3
• GeekAtPlay - Hexagon Projects - Series 4

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