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Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting

Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting.  Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control, automation, land control, combat, special effects, environment control and physics, and interacting with the world outside of Second Life.  After you read this engaging book, you will possess a solid understanding Linden Scripting Language conventions.

Biography

Dana Moore is ElectricSheep Expedition in Second Life, where he runs a shop, creates clothes, and writes tons of scripts. Michael Thome (Vex Streeter) is a scripter-for-hire who develops everything from games to virtual toys. Dr. Karen Haigh (Karzita Zabaleta) enjoys writing scripts that push the boundaries of what is possible in SL. The authors have a combined 50 years of experience as enterprise software developers and are computer scientists for Internet pioneer BBN Technologies.

Table of Contents

1. Getting a feel for the language:  The basics and/or a Review.

2. Getting your Avatar to stand up (and out).

3. Communications (to avs, but mostly setting stage for inter-prim comms).

4. Prims and Objects.

5. Automation.

6. Land.

7. Combat: Push, Physics, Damage.

8. Interlude: Special Projects.

9. Special-Effects Department.

10. Reacting to the Virtual Environment.

11. Sound and Video (multimedia).

12. Interacting with the Real World.

13. Selling It.

14. Dealing with Problems.

17. A Look to the Future.

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