User:Allen Kerensky

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Allen Kerensky

Allen Kerensky

Allen Kerensky writes science-fiction screenplays and creates machinima (machine cinema) in collaboration with Moebius Overdrive.

Filmography

Crew Credits

  • Story developer
  • Screenwriter
  • Voice actor
  • Avatar actor
  • Music and sound FX coordination
  • LSL scripting
  • Final editing

Affiliations

  • Alt-Zoom Studios, Lukanida (founding contributor since its inception in September, 2005)
  • MachiniMafia, Old Town (under construction)

Tips

  • Set your SL Viewer to NTSC or PAL before recording, using the File Menu -> Switch Window Size submenu.
  • Enable Advanced Menu with CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D
  • Use Advanced Menu -> Debug Settings -> Play Typing Anim -> FALSE to stop people from adding typing sounds to your captures
  • Linux users can use xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 F1" to stop Linux from switching to text console when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1.
    • xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1" to restore normal Linux behavior
  • Parcel Owners can build huge video walls to use as easily selectable backdrops without requiring you to pay to upload tons of textures.
    • Project quicktime on the media texture as a form of animated rear-projection.
    • Quicktime shows MANY media types as its stream, including still or animated images such as GIF.

Platform

  • Athlon X2 64 4000+ (2.1GHz dual-proc) with 4GB RAM and 320GB storage
  • nVidia GeForce 8600GT, PCIE, 256MB
  • nVidia High-Definiton Audio
  • Logitech USB headset microphone

Linux Software

  • Fedora Linux, 64-bit
  • nVidia unified driver and OpenGL
  • Pulse Audio networked sound engine over ALSA
  • SL Viewer for rendering
  • RecordMyDesktop for video capture (full quality Theora)
  • Istanbul for video capture (quick and dirty, low quality Theora)
  • byzanz-record for stillframe captures (animated GIF)
  • Pitivi for video editing
  • Audacity for audio editing
  • MPlayer for audio stream capture
  • IceCast for audio streaming into SL
  • GIMP for building titles and credits

In-World Tools

Places To Go and Things To See