Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63517 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 364 pages

Synopsis
Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world where residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize and participate in individual and group activities. Another major activity is the ability to create and trade/sell items and services to other residents. However, to create advanced items you must program in the Linden Scripting Language. This book presents many common objects in Second Life, with complete Linden Scripting Language examples. For each example, you are provided with copy/modifyable objects for all examples in the Second Life world. These examples are presented as a series of recipes, which are useful by themselves, or as a starting point for more complex objects. The recipes span a wide array of uses. Useful recipes for buildings provide elevators, teleport pads, and locking doors. Vehicles are covered with example cars, boats and helicopters. The video game side of Second Life is demonstrated with an assortment of gun and bullet recipes. Recipes for wearable items such as glittering jewelry, jet packs, parachutes, and anti-push orbs are also presented. Recipes for slide shows, cannons, weather stations, and other miscellaneous items are also covered.Commerce is a huge part of Second Life.

Two chapters are dedicated to commerce objects, such as tip jars, rental scripts and vendor kiosks.

Customer Reviews

Second life scripting
If you want to learn scripting from scratch this is not really the book for you.

If you are an experienced second life user/builder with some PC programming experience. You will love it!!

It provides a range of scripts that will do most tasks and with minor tweaking can be adjusted to perform higher tasks and custom jobs.

The book itself is not a teaching guide it merely presents scripts and discusses them showing you how they work. If you are the kind of person who learns by example you will be fine with this book.

There is no CD with the book but most of the scripts can be down loaded easily albeit in a weird file format which required some technical knowledge to extract them.

Great book - just what I needed
First - this is a book for those with some experience in programming. Dont buy it if you have never written a computer program.
Second - it doesnt define the lsl function calls, but this is not a problem now that the lsl Wiki exists. You will need to read the wiki in conjunction with the book.
Third - no CD included, but you can download all the examples from the authors web site.
That said - This is an excellent book. it will give you a good understanding of the philosophy of scripting in Second life. I recommend it.

secondlife and beyond
Up untill reading this book, i thought i had a good general knowledge of scripting in secondlife, as i have created a number of objects using scripts with the assitance of secondlife friends......but after reading this book realised i dont know a thing, and am afraid this book is going to be gathering dust for awhile whilst i master the basics. But am sure it will be well used once i get the hang of it all.