Category : Second Life Building

InAEA orientation! Time: Sunday, 28 November 2010, 10:00am EST Place: InAEA meeting place (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dace/120/235/319/ ) What: This orientation is for everyone who is not familiar with the Second Life (Viewer 2). We will practice how to chat locally and privately; ... [More]

If you would like to join InAEA monthly meeting, but do not want to install the “huge” Second Life that require high speed internet, text based Second Life will be your another option! Second Life wiki provides several options. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_party_viewers#Third-party_Viewe... [More]

I really enjoy what we can do with shared media texture in SL viewer 2, today I am going to share some of my experiences about the shared media! (By using the Shared Media, you can freely display more than 1 Video in one parcel directly from the internet! And you don't need to set up any landowner'... [More]

If you are wondering about what is Second Life, and how can you get in Second Life and participate in our monthly meeting, this is an introduction about how to do the registration and how to get in Second Life and find InAEA! First, go to https://join.secondlife.com/  give some of your... [More]

2010 NAEA National Convention April 14-18, 2010, Baltimore, MD SESSIONS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 Technology Virtual Presentation, Real Connection: An Investigation of a Student Art Exhibition in the Virtual World An inter-institutional collaborative Second Life project that involves c... [More]

Second Life Viewer 2 is here! There are some great functions in Viewer 2. The viewer 2 maybe is not very user friendly yet, and it might cause another learning curve. The benefits of using viewer 2 is really worth to  give it a try! I merge the Second Life official Viewer 2 quick start guid... [More]

Before I noticed this function, I always just drag texture on one surface of  a prim to make one prim have multiple textures. However, when I edited the color of a prim, the whole prim color changed. Therefore, when I noticed this function, I was really happy.   This is in the building t... [More]

The longer I stay in Second Life, the fewer satisfaction I got from building in Second Life with those default prims.  Default prims can easily modify, cut, rotate; however, the quality of those prims are just not looking so cool. (That’s why sometimes I really want to buy something even though... [More]

Last time when I talked about textures, I did mentioned something about “full bright” and “glow.” Today, I am going to talk about “Light.” It is not under the texture tab, but under the “Features” tab. (I will use 2 objects without texture, it will make the light more clear.)   This is the ... [More]

Textures in SL for me is like the soul of objects. If you are a newbie builder with perfect texture, your creations will look good no matter what. If you are an advanced builder with perfect texture, your creation will be great. How textures looks also related with the  viewer’s computer capabi... [More]