User:Torley Linden/Vidtut ideas

2008-01-04T15:44:48Z

Marcush Nemeth: Added suggestion: Land options

== Headline text ==

'''This page is for scribbling ideas for Torley's [[Video Tutorials]], including the omnifriendly "[http://blog.secondlife.com/?s=%22tip%20of%20the%20week%22 Tip of the Week]" series.''' Feel free to add your own suggestions — if this page gets too long, we may need to organize it better, but for now, ''go wild'' using the format below:

: == [TITLE OF SUGGESTED TIP] ==
: * [FINER DETAILS]
: * [MORE FINER DETAILS]

Here we go!

== How to use streaming parcel media ==
* Cover music + movies.
* Show examples of playing .MP3s and .MOVs.
* Video capture of web browser and URLs.
* Make the very strong point that Linden Lab does ''not'' store what's streamed, we merely pass it along from an external webserver.
* Specifically useful would be the ability to watch youtube videos in SL --> how to convert .flv to .mov or .mp4 (or how to directly stream youtube - though I guess converting and storing on own webserver is more likely)

== How to login with multiple accounts ==
* Explain command line parameters briefly.
* Show Second Life shortcut on desktop. (This will be Windows-specific, but in the text part of the blog post, there should be a link to Mac + Linux info.)
* Also show how to login automatically but if I do this, BE VERY SURE to explain security risks involved.
* Launch two viewers and show them both running momentarily.

== How to terraform ==
* Useful for landowners and showing the benefit to those interested in land.
* Explain the somewhat-confusing UI and show what each tool does on a blank patch.
* I reckon I'll wait for Gigs' {{jira|VWR-2331}} to be added first, it'd add a lot of nuances to the art.

== How to start your own wiki page ==
* This would primarily be web-based and showcase usefulness that most Resis don't know about. For example, [[User:Tid_Kidd]].
* Show simple wiki editing. (I should look for a richer, easier editor tho.)
* Emphasize that it acts as an extended profile and can be linked to from inworld.
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_page has good ideas.

== Explain how deeded land works ==
* Explain how one deed's land
* Advantages and disadvantages of deeding land to a group
* What the "Owner Makes Contribution With Deed" button means checking vs unchecking when deeding.
* How to recover land from a group.
* Warnings on making multiple owners of group owned land

== Statistics Bar ==
* View > Statistics Bar (Ctrl-Shift-1)
* This could easily be a multi-part series
* Most important, Simulator tab, understand why your lagging
* What are all those pesky times (ms) ?

== SL Etiquette ==

* Teleporting. Explain why blindly walking around too soon around after tp is bad idea (pushing others etc).
* (I always fly straight up after TPing to an unknown landmark/place until everything is rezzed.)
* Excessive attachments, prims, and scripts. Explain how each impacts others' experience.
* (Torley, I will add more to this short list as I think of more etiquette topics!! Others, feel free to edit!)
* Flying or standing too close to a stranger--or their homes.
* SHOUTING way too often.

== More land options ==
* Showing land borders and the meaning of the different colors red/orange/yellow/green
* These land borders can be very useful for your SL experience. Can't script/rez on a piece of land? go to the neighbours. Looking for a nice plot to purchase? Look for those yellow borders! How big is your land, and how far can you move that wall? Look at landborders again!
* Setting land options. I often run into people who complain about running into lots of garbage that others leave on their land. A quick run through the various land options usually solves their problems.

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