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* '''[http://tumitu.wordpress.com Tutorial video in Italiano sul blog Tumitu ]''' | |||
** [http://tumitu.wordpress.com/tutorial/creare-oggetti-complessi-in-secondlife/ Come si creano Oggetti complessi in Secondlife] | |||
** a breve ne inseriremo altri Check it out | |||
== Content creation == | == Content creation == | ||
Revision as of 04:01, 26 September 2007
The following's a list of Second Life video tutorials. This isn't meant to be a complete compilation, but if it is here, you at least know that somebody found it useful. Torley Linden started this page with the intention of providing an easy-access resource for SL vidtuts.
Please add what you've found useful —
"May we watch over the shoulders of our enlightened educators with smiles as plentiful as water!"
Video Tutorials in the Knowledge Base
You can also see these on Torley's YouTube page, including:
Second Life Tip of the Week
A new series which aims to communicate useful, fun info in 5 min. or less! Learn more about SLTotW on the Official Linden Blog.
- How to turn off the typing animation and sound
- How to move your camera further and better
- A yummy mix of user interface tricks
- How to use beacons and highlights
- 3 useful "Show" options in the Tools menu
More!
- How to use gestures
- How to manage your inventory
- How to use HUDs
- How to change your appearance
- How to open and sell boxes
- How to use the building grid
- How to fill in your profile
- How to create and send a notecard
- How to use Undo
- How to make a flag that waves in wind
- How to to make tiny prims
- Assorted Tips & Tricks - A yummy stew including a hearty helping of FollowCam!
- Advanced Snapshot Magic - Take better pictures!
You can also download most of these vidtuts (feel free to link to those URLs to stream them inworld)!
Video Tutorials on external websites
- Amras Alder's Video Tutorials
- Mouse Moves Sun - How to have beautiful sunsets or lighting any time, any place!
- Disable Camera Constraints - How and why it's a good thing, with some extra tips to assist.
- Quiet Snapshots - Take snapshots without default sound and animation.
- Hover Tips & More - How & why to engage/disengage Hover Tips.
- How to hide your HUDs - Remove HUDs from view!
- Ugly Horizon Fix - Get rid of that pesky horizon anomaly.
- Vidéos tutos en Français par Teruki Shan - Retrouvez toutes mes vidéos tutos sur mon site internet, ou dans la liste suivante :
- S'inscrire à Second Life
- Se connecter à Second Life
- Orientation Island - Move - Mouvements
- Orientation Island - Appearance - Apparence
- Orientation Island - Communicate - Communication
- Orientation Island - Search - Rechercher
- Fonctionalitées de l'Interface de Second Life
- Modifier et Sauvegarder son Apparence
- Ouvrir et Porter le Contenu d'une Boite
- Création d'Objet - Créer un Objet
- Créer un Objet Simple : Une Chaise
This vidtuts are in French and are made by Teruki Shan
- Tutorial video in Italiano sul blog Tumitu
- Come si creano Oggetti complessi in Secondlife
- a breve ne inseriremo altri Check it out
Content creation
- n00b Be Gone series - By Natural Selection Studios.
- Camera Tutorial - "how to interact with objects, different forms of camera controls, and a few ‘unknown’ tricks"
- Building Tutorial - "basic building inside Second Life - as well as continuing camera controls learned in the first episode"
- Building in Second Life series - By Ian Monstre.
- Building a Clock - How to make a timepiece that really works, in 7 parts.
- Open/Close Door - "how to create a door that opens and closes when touched"
- Create a Fluttering flag - Flag vidtuts are a great way to show flexiprims in action.
- Building and scripting series - By Seeter Sullivan.
- How to build a bridge - By Noire Mirabeau, in a relatively vintage example of an SL vidtut.
- Assorted resources and links - Includes guides to filming machinima and telling a story, some video tutorials, and movies of inworld adventures. By Thinkerer Melville.
- Using snapshot freeze to take precise pictures - By Bella March. By doing this, you can achieve better action shots without re-shooting multiple times.
- Using Photoshop's "Liquify" tool - By Vint Falken. This can help you smooth out and enhance avatar snapshots dramatically.
- tFinder quickstart - By Cid Vilas. Learn how to use tFinder, the texture search engine.
Sculpted Prims
There are several good video tutorials for making sculpted prims. Google, and search YouTube. Here are some for Wings 3D (an external 3D modeler good for sculpties in Second Life).
Machinima
- How to use the Alt-Zoom Camera - moo Money guides us through using this tool to film movies.
Introductory guides
- Top 10 Machinima Tips - By Eric Linden.
- How to make a movie in Second Life - By Alt-Zoom Studios.
- Making Machinima in Second Life on Mac OS X - By Aenea Nori. Although specifically discussing the technical aspects of creating Machinima in Mac OS X, the concepts are applicable to Windows users as well.
- Vidder Maker Workshop -- The Six Gates - By Thinkerer Melville.
Feature demos
These aren't intentionally educational, but highlight specific aspects of Second Life.
- WindLight atmospheric rendering - By Torley Linden.
- Sculpted prims - By Qarl Linden.
- Flexible prims - By Torley Linden.
Misc.
- How to convert YouTube videos for playing in Second Life - Step-by-step tutorial for when you want to show a fave clip inworld.
- YouTube search results for Second Life Video Tutorials - The list is small and growing!
- SL Frustration: Video Tutorials, please? - Sometimes when I ask myself "Why am I doing this?" while filming, I read this post and am reminded of how confused I was when I started. It's insightful.
- secondlife.com Community: Media - Showcase of finished, Resident-made machinima.
- How to convert YouTube videos for playing in Second Life - An answer to a question that many ask.
- teachtube.com - Because K-12 institutions routinely block YouTube, it can be difficult to show great educational examples of Second Life, as well as those wonderful tutorials by Torley and others. However, TeacherTube.com as a purely educational alternative. - The list is small.
- Twenty Tutorials by Benja Kepler A wide range of subjects, including how to leave Orientation Island, making furniture, sculpted prims and scripting.
- How to get started in Second Life A general introduction into Second Life (34 minutes). Topics: The Avatar, Communication, Search, Interaction, Some Locations to show the wide range of possible activities in SL (in German and English, by Mkyschnitzel Campbell)