BOOK: Scripting Your World
I bought Scripting Your World soon after it was first published and it’s been a really useful reference ever since. My scripting abilities are basic but even I can grasp most of the concepts explained here – just don’t ask me to explain quaternions – ever. It’s fully illustrated and displays the scripts with the same formatting you’ll see in-world while editing the real thing. Speaking of which you can go and collect all the example scripts from the book at the author’s site inworld – so you don’t have to manually transcribe everything yourself. Playing around with actual scripts is always the best way to learn and there are lots of examples to try.
We, avatar…
Grindr, the smartphone app aimed at gay men which tracks each user’s location, finds other cruising Grindrs in the immediate area and then facilitates instant hook-ups for instant…uhm…coffee, is now going straight and going mainstream with Project Amicus. No great surprise to see another user-location-based app being launched but it did make me wonder if we’re now beyond the much-heralded UGC (User Generated Content) era (in which Second Life was a significant player) to a newer UAC (User AS Content) era?
Futures past?
Quote from 1987, maybe Second Life could have been (could still be?) this – but guess who said it?
“In the future, sophisticated computer simulations will allow students to walk through Athens with Plato, experience life in 17th-century France or perform biochemistry experiments normally requiring a $5 million laboratory.”
Where's neverywhere?
Someone in Second Life asked me – why the name ‘neverywhere‘? Apart from the obvious (I just like it!) it’s because it seemed the perfect word for Second Life…
A place that’s accessible to anyone from everywhere but never exists in the real world…
OK, the phrase ‘real world’ is debatable. My grandmother always asks me why I bother to make things in SL that don’t really exist. I always ask her if the music exists when she’s listening to CD’s?
Maybe I should also ask if it exists while she’s not listening to them?
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