User:Torley Linden/Vidtut ideas
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This page is for scribbling ideas for Torley's Video Tutorials, including the omnifriendly "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.
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' 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.