Features

This page ontologically groups features from the perspective of what a user can do.

Each feature will have a landing page with links to the following:

• Feature Design Document (Developer's intent)

Category:Design_Documents

Design Document Template

• Functional Spec (How the feature works from a User's perspective)

Category:Functional_Specs

Functional_Spec_Template

• Test scripts (Verify the feature works through internal, resident run and automated tests)

Category:Test_Scripts

Test Script Template

• Discussion for future improvements (Tied to feature requests and to a filter of related bugs)
• Relationship to other features (Features that need to be tested when this feature changes)
• User Guides (links to Linden Lab or 3rd party guides about this feature)

What can a user do?

Interact with other Avatars

• Chat
  • Internationalization
• Emotes and Gestures
• Instant Message
  • Person to person IM
  • Group IM
  • Conference IM
  • IM to email
• Scripted communications - XML-RPC, HTTP-OUT, Hover text, llOwnerSay, llSay, llWhisper, llShout, llInstantMessage, llEmail
• Voice
• Notecards
• Textures on objects or particles
• Sound Clips
• Streaming Audio
• Streaming Video
• User Profile
• Group Notices
• Mute
• Pay User
• Give Inventory items and Inventory Categories
• Friends
• Track Friends
• Grant Modify Rights
• LSL Browser HUD

Search

• Classifieds
• Events
• Popular Places
• Land Sales
• Places
• People
• Groups
• Search All
• Item Sales - Not yet implemented.
• Inventory Search
• World Map

Customize your Avatar

• Create Avatar Assets
• Appearance Mode
• Manage Outfits

Build

• Create Objects
• Create Trees and Grass
• Select Objects
• Edit Object
  • Selection Silhouettes
  • Edit Linked Parts
  • Flexible Objects
  • Lights
  • Locked
  • Physical
  • Temporary Objects
  • Phantom Objects
  • Materials
  • Shape parameters
  • Textures
  • Object Contents
  • Undo
  • Set Permissions
• Linking
• Delete
• Edit Terrain
• Upload Assets
• Collaborative Building

Own Land

• Estates - A collection of regions.
  • Estate Management
  • Estate Visibility
  • Estate Land Sales
• Regions - 16 acres (256 x 256 meters) of land.
• Select Land
• Parcels - A patch of land on a region.
  • First Land - Land for new residents.

Own stuff

• Inventory
  • Animations
  • Body Parts
    • Hair
    • Skin
    • Shape
    • Eyes
  • Clothing
    • Outfits
    • Undershirt
    • Shirt
    • Underpants
    • Pants
    • Jacket
    • Gloves
    • Socks
    • Shoes
    • Dress
  • Attachments
  • Gestures
• Landmarks
• Lost and Found
• Notecards
• Objects
• Scripts
• Sounds
• Photo Album
• Textures
• Trash
• Recent Items

Interact with the UI

• Window management
  • Inventory
  • World Map
  • Search
• Window Focus
• Camera Control
• Menus
• Text Selection
• Keyboard Navigation

Interact with the world

• Alt-zoom
• Click to touch (click or ctrl-2, click)
• Move (drag or ctrl-2, drag)
• Push (bump with your avatar)
• Pie menus (Right click)
• Buy Object
• Buy Contents
• Pay Object
• Open Object
• Sitting

View the world

• Interest List
• Viewer Performance Metrics
• Shared Drawables
• Render Correctness
• Avatar Impostors
• Stereoscopic Mode

Scripts

• See LSL_Portal
• Scripted permissions

Groups

• Create Group
• Group Roles
  • Group Abilities
• Group Membership - Invite, Join, Leave, and Eject.
• Share
  • Share Object with Group
  • Share Parcel with Group
• Deed
  • Deed Object to Group
  • Deed Parcel to Group
• Contribute Tier to Group
• Group Communications
  • Group Notices
  • Group Proposals
  • Group IM

Copy stuff

• Copy Inworld
• Copy Inventory
• Copy with Scripts

Make L$

• Buy and Sell land
• Buy and Sell products
• Buy and Sell services
• Out of band (eg. SL-related t-shirts)
• Buy and Sell $L

Participate in Community

• Blogs / Forums
• Join Groups
• Volunteer
• Help mentors
• Live Help
• Feature voting
• Bug voting

Document

• Snapshots
• Video
• Postcards

Travel

• Walk
• Fly
• Teleport
• Vehicles
• SLURL

First Hour

• registration via secondlife.com
• registration via 3rd party site
• First Login
• Orientation Island
• Help Island
• New User Performance Test

Troubleshoot your system

• Frame Console
• Texture Console
• Debug Console
• Fast Timers
• Performance Testers
• Octree Info Display
• Occlusion Info Display

Optimize your system

• Preferences
• Clear Cache