Project:Flagged Revs Backup/How do I perform a gesture?

Gestures allow your avatar to perform a variety of animations, sounds, or other actions automatically as you chat. You can trigger gestures with pre-defined function keys, or make them automatically play when you say a specific word or phrase in conversation.

If you don't know how to perform a gesture you already have, you can easily find out.

1. View your Inventory and open the Gestures folder.
2. Right-click the appropriate gesture and choose Open.
3. Look at the entry for Trigger. The gesture plays whenever it encounters this text in chat.
4. Or, look at the Shortcut Key. You can press this key (or key combination) any time in or out of chat to perform this gesture.

A note on gesture performance

Second Life currently performs the first gesture it finds in chat. If you place a later gesture in the same chat line, it is not read as a gesture. You can often use this to your advantage; for example, if you're trying to tell someone how to bow: You type: Just type /bow You say: Just type <avatar bows> You type: /bow Just type /bow You say: Just type /bow <avatar bows>