Video Tutorials

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Official Video Tutorials

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Friendly greetings! You can learn Second Life in a fun and fast fashion! The enthusiastic Torley is your host, taking you on a tour through tips, tricks, and techniques that'll increase your confidence and make you smile. :) Whether you're a newcomer or longtime Resident, your inworld experience will benefit from these video tutorials.

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Archives

^ Old video tutorial pages that used to be here before we got our searchable player.

Resident-created Video Tutorials

Getting Started Basics

• Hey Avatar! video tutorial series for beginners from Mo Hax, prepared originally for corporate in-worlding

• Video Tutorials for eLearning Providers by Subquark Hax, as presented at various eLearning conferences

Assorted topics

• Tutorial video in Italiano sul blog Tumitu - Come si creano Oggetti complessi in Secondlife. A breve ne inseriremo altri.

• VideoTuTorial in Italiano di Gaia Rossini- In continuo aggiornamento

• Tutorials & Tools - By Vlad Bjornson. These cover topics like Vlad's "Top 10 Building Tips" and sculpted prims.

• Twenty Tutorials - By Benja Kepler. Ten scripting tutorials, plus making furniture, sculpted prims, and Orientation/Help Island basics.

• How to get started in Second Life - By Mkyschnitzel Campbell, in German and English. general, 34-minute introduction to Second Life. Topics: avatars, communication, Search, interaction, and some locations to show the wide range of possible inworld activities.

• Phoenixa's tutorial, How I Dance In Secondlife - By Phoenixa Sol in English. Arranging animations in fast and easy to use HUDs, combining animations, gestures to approximate the look of real life dancing within Secondlife.com. Expanded page with links and SLurls now available here Phoenixa Sol 16:35, 4 April 2008 (PDT)

• Videotutoriales en Español - Desde VideoTutoriales.com. Curso para Emprendedores en Second Life que puedes también visualizar desde Revver ver playlist en Revver. O descargar, así como muchos otros cursos desde la página oficial de VideoTutoriales.com [1]. Esta es una lista de los publicados hasta el momento:
  • 1º) ¿Qué es Second Life?
  • 2º) Trabajar y Moverse
  • 3º) Controlar las Cámaras
  • 4º) Mapas y Avatares
  • 5º) Crear Ropas
  • 6º) Canales Alfa y Creación Tattoos
  • 7º) Trabajar con Prims
  • 8º) Propiedades de los Prims
  • 9º) Herramientas y Texturas
  • 10º) Crear Globo Terrestre
  • 11º) Crear Muebles 1 Prim
  • 12º) Dar Permisos a los Objetos
  • 13º) Crear un Hud AO
  • 14º) Trabajar con Texturas
  • 15º) Usar Multimedia
  • 16º) Linden Scripting Language
  • 17º) Sintaxis del Linden Scripting Language
  • 18º) Variables y Funciones
  • 19º) Crear Script para controlar puerta
  • 20º) Sistema de Teletransporte
  • 21º) Construir Edificio
  • 22º) Construir Edificio II
  • 23º) Construir Edificio III
  • 24º) Construir Mobiliario
  • 25º) Construir Tresillo
  • 26º) Construir Mesa Recepción
  • 27º) Construir Mesa Recepción 2
  • Construir Mesa Recepción 3
  • 29º)Uso Salas Interactivas
  • 31º)Uso Partículas
  • 32º)Apariencia partículas
  • Uso de Scracht para Second Life

• Videotutoriales en Español instalar y configurar OpenSim - Desde VideoTutoriales.com. tres videotutoriales sobre instalación, configuración y uso de OpenSim y OSGrid que puedes también visualizar desde Revver.
  • 1º) Instalación y Configuración de OpenSim
  • 2º) Crear Islas y configurar terrenos y avatares
  • 3º)Enlazar un OpenSim al OSGrid

Content creation

• Run Opensim - Build and Connect to Windows Standalone Mo Hax shows a fast and cheap way to preview content without even an SL connection, like having a Beta grid on your desktop

• Building in Second Life series - By Ian Monstre.
  • Building a Clock - How to make a timepiece that really works, in 7 parts.
  • Open/Close Door - "how to create a door that opens and closes when touched"
  • Create a Fluttering flag - Flag vidtuts are a great way to show flexiprims in action.

• Scripting in Second Life - By Fire Centaur
  • Basic Scripting - Overview of functions, events, & states

• Building and scripting series - By Seeter Sullivan.
  • How to create an interactive sign
  • How to embed texture onto an object
  • How to embed a notecard onto an object
  • How to link an object to a webpage
  • How to create links within a notecard
  • How to create a dropbox
  • How to create a teleport link

• How to animate your creations - How to animate your creations with linked prim animation using Puppeteer by Todd Borst.

• How to build a bridge - By Noire Mirabeau — a relatively vintage example of an SL vidtut.

• Assorted resources and links - By Thinkerer Melville. Includes guides to filming machinima and telling a story, some video tutorials, and movies of inworld adventures.

• Using snapshot freeze to take precise pictures - By Bella March. By doing this, you can achieve better action shots without re-shooting multiple times.

• LSL (Linden Scripting Language) Tutorials on YouTube - By Fred Gandt Everything explained from the very beginning. No previous knowledge required.
  • Also see Fred_Gandt/Tuition for some limited (due to a busy real life) scripting help.

External software

• Using Photoshop's "Liquify" tool - By Vint Falken. This can help you smooth out and enhance avatar snapshots dramatically.

• Wings 3D sculpted prim vidtuts - Learn how to use an external modeler good for exporting sculpties to Second Life.

Machinima

• Machinima Tutorial - 1. Basic things - By Erythro Asimov.
• Machinima Tutorial - 2. Playing with camera - By Erythro Asimov.
• Machinima Tutorial - 3. Playing with scene - By Erythro Asimov.
• Machinima Tutorial - 4. Playing with avatar - By Erythro Asimov.
• Making Machinima in Second Life on Mac OS X - By Aenea Nori. Although specifically discussing the technical aspects of creating Machinima in Mac OS X, the concepts are applicable to Windows users as well.
• Vidder Maker Workshop -- The Six Gates - By Thinkerer Melville.
• Another Alt-Zoom camera tutorial - Alt-Zoom camera tutorial by Nimrod.
• Machinima: Come realizzare un video in Second Life FRAPS - How to makea video in in Second Life FRAPS by Eleonora Porta (2Lifevideos)

Specific products

• tFinder quickstart - By Cid Vilas. Learn how to use tFinder, the texture search engine.

• How To Turn a JEVN Vendor into a Hippo Vendor

- By Rose Evans. Learn how to take a JEVN Vendor, such as a P10 or P20 model (though for the demo I use a 6 panel for speed. :D ), and make it into a Hippo Vendor. As I (Rose) say, if you are converting from JEVN to Hippo you got to build it anyway you might as well use what ya got already set up. :D Best viewed full screen!

• En Garde - Strategic fencing. Advance, retreat, parry, lunge!
• Frootcake - A deliciously spiteful game for 3-5 players
• Can't Stop - The classic Sid Sackson press-your-luck game comes to Second Life

Also see

• YouTube search results for Second Life Video Tutorials - The list is growing!
• SL Frustration: Video Tutorials, please? - Sometimes when I ask myself "Why am I doing this?" while filming, I (Torley) read this post and am reminded of how confused I was when I started. It's insightful.
• teachtube.com - Because K-12 institutions routinely block YouTube, it can be difficult to show great educational examples of Second Life, as well as those wonderful tutorials by Torley and others. However, TeacherTube.com as a purely educational alternative. The list is small.
• Video Transcripts - A list of accessible video tutorials and links to the text files.