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<font color="red">This page is ''not'' being monitored. '''Please [[User:Torley_Linden|contact Torley directly]] if you have suggestions!'''</font>


'''This page is for scribbling ideas for Torley's [[Video Tutorials]].''' 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:


'''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] ===
 
: == [TITLE OF SUGGESTED TIP] ==
: * [FINER DETAILS]
: * [FINER DETAILS]
: * [MORE FINER DETAILS]
: * [MORE FINER DETAILS]
And if you'd rather not edit this page but still '''wanna let me know your video tutorial suggestions, please email me: torley at lindenlab dot com with the subject line "Video Tutorials"!'''


Here we go!
Here we go!


== How to use streaming parcel media ==
== Archives ==
* Cover music + movies.
Torley started archiving to make this page more tidy. Also, while not everything in the archives has been resolved, archival does ''not'' mean that it'll ''never'' be done — it may still be ripe for doing. If that makes sense. :)
* 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.
 
== How to get help==
* Cover mentors and the support portal
* Show examples IMing mentors, lindens or using the support portal..
* Video capture of web browser and URLs.
* Make the very strong point that Linden's are VERY BUSY.
* This would be useful to show at newbie friendly areas.


== Useful Debug Settings ==
* '''[[User:Torley_Linden/Vidtut_ideas/2008-03-19|2008-03-19]]'''
* Cover some of how to activate some of the more useful debug settings
* ImagePipelineUseHTTP - which give a noticible speedup of texture rezzing on lower end PC's
* FolderAutoOpenDelay - which will slow down how quickly the inventory folders open when you're dragging and dropping (which is very irritating, btw).
* Any others?


== Cover Other Ctrl+Shift number screens ==
=== Teen Grid ===  
* Cover the other statistical/debug screens.
* Gives info on the Teen Grid
* CTRL+SHIFT+2 - look at all the pretty colors.....what is this all telling us?
* Says some things that are only on the Teen Grid, and says some things that ARENT on the Teen Grid.
* CTRL+SHIFT+3 - Textures Downloading, what it all means, why there are so many showing downloading even when everything appears to be rezzed already.
* CTRL+SHIFT+4 - The console, why you might want to look at it when there are problems, what kind of information is there for the young and geeky.
* CTRL+SHIFT+9 - More colored bars, what does it all mean?

Latest revision as of 14:14, 10 October 2008

This page is not being monitored. Please contact Torley directly if you have suggestions!

This page is for scribbling ideas for Torley's Video Tutorials. 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]

And if you'd rather not edit this page but still wanna let me know your video tutorial suggestions, please email me: torley at lindenlab dot com with the subject line "Video Tutorials"!

Here we go!

Archives

Torley started archiving to make this page more tidy. Also, while not everything in the archives has been resolved, archival does not mean that it'll never be done — it may still be ripe for doing. If that makes sense. :)

Teen Grid

  • Gives info on the Teen Grid
  • Says some things that are only on the Teen Grid, and says some things that ARENT on the Teen Grid.
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