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Some say that a scriptwriter is "a person who writes scripts for movies, plays, television, comedy shows, political speeches and other presentations." This list leaves out LSL scripts...no suprise. We are scriptwriters too, not much in the limelight, even though many things depend on good programmers. Hackers are the builders of Second Life. As we mentioned before, everything here starts with a cube, in the imagination of a hacker.
In SL we can make movies -- the animation comes for free thanks to Linden Labs -- and then we can use our LSL scripts for special effects. There is a short worksheet (#13) about this here, and some examples below.
We can use our physics scripts (the ones we built from the worksheets #11 on the link page) to make the "sets" for cool videos. In these examples, Hector just watches our scripts perform while recording the audio and video. Yes, these videos are short, but you can make them loop. Make sure you can hear the nd effects! turn them up!
- An unfortunate accident (avi) (mp4) 1:22 mins (this was not planned! Hector apologizes!)
- Planet-pair orbits (avi) (mp4) 48 secs (science fiction example)
- Pushing spheres (avi) (mp4) 36 secs (existential example)
The avi formats are compressed with an XviD codec... if your video player cannot play these, try getting the codec here -- just grab and run the right installer for your computer and then try the video again.
These first videos linked below look like they were quite easy to produce. But when you try to make one yourself, you'll see they are not so easy! These links are interesting mainly because of the background scenery and music. With these videos, like ours above, make sure you are hearing the sound! (You'll see that in these, the scripts are not doing so much of the work as in our videos -- no surprise)
- Virtual starry night 1:58 mins (HVX Silverstar)
- Second life 48 secs (Mensajeros de la Paz)
- A common occurrence 1:44 mins (Ignavus2) This shows an avatar walking around with a funny particle generator
- Tate installation 5:35 mins (pazuk)
- Basic architecture 1:18 mins (Rick Smith), fancy architecture 2:07 mins and more 1:30 mins (Keystone Bouchard)
Fancier things
- Taiko 57 secs (Robbie Dingo)
- Whale of a tale 1:22 mins (Angrybeth Shortbread)
- Harry Potter 2:27 mins (Leeloo Mill, Phoenix Productions)
- Lip flap 3:14 mins (Kronos Kirkorian) I think the moral of this one is: use music and voice-overs, not dialog!
- He still watches, part 1 1:15 mins, part 2 2:09 mins (Robbie Dingo aka Rob Wright)
- Griefzilla 1:37 mins (Decomposing Monstre)
- Tale from Midnight City 2:41 mins (Tracechops)
- Around the Grid 31May07 1:16 mins (Ida Keen) news about Linden Labs acquisition of Windward Mark -- notice the lips moving with the voice -- maybe this is CrazyTalk technology?
- Nothing Compares2u 5:05 mins (Dxvid) another lip-sync experiment, done with Poser rather than SL
Some other interesting links
- Advanced Snapshot Magic 11:26 mins (Torley Linden aka Torley Wong)
- Sit on a Prim and get 500m high 20 secs (Torley Linden)
- How to make a Sculpted Apple - 5:04 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to use gestures - 9:47 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to manage your inventory - 12:25 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to use HUD’s - 9:46 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to change your appearance - 9:19 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to open and sell boxes - 5:36 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to use the building grid - 9:51 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to fill in your profile - 14:51 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to send and create a notecard - 4:58 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to use Undo - 4:51 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to make a flag that waves in the wind - 8:29 mins (Torley Linden)
- How to make tiny prims - 8:35 mins (Torley Linden)
- Building a clock in Second Life : 7 videos, 45 mins (SLBuilding.com)
- Camera Controls 7:04 mins (Noob be gone, NSS)
- Building Tutorial 10:18 mins (Noob be gone, NSS)
- Creating a door that opens and closes 6:40 mins (Ian Monstre), uses this script
- Texture align script 6:49 mins (Rosalie Rothlisberger)
- Make a bridge 7 mins (Make zine)
- UIUC tutorials (Doe-Hyung Kim)
- The Programming Playground 30 mins (Mike Hobbs) -- about teaching SL programming
