Hey Avatar!
Hey there Second Life or OpenSim Avatar! Welcome to the big wide virtual world. These video tutorials should help you get started right and hopefully learn good habits early as well as secrets others haven’t learned after years in SL. Each has an individual blog post, but here they are all linked in one place and with their descriptions for easier reference.
- Hey Avatar – Create Your Second Life Account
- Hey Avatar – Install Your Second Life Viewer
- Hey Avatar – Navigate
- Hey Avatar – Use Your Camera
- Hey Avatar – Configure Audio, Media, and Voice
- Hey Avatar – Communicate
- Hey Avatar – Meet, Make, Manage, Contacts
- Hey Avatar – Take Snapshots and Share
- Hey Avatar – Adjust Your Appearance
- Hey Avatar – Search
- Hey Avatar – Join Groups, Get Title, Help in Forums
- Hey Avatar – Fill In Your Profile
- Hey Avatar – Teleport, Landmark, Home, SLURLS
- Hey Avatar – Laugh, Clap, Wave, Make Gestures
- Hey Avatar – Don’t Be A Sim Hog
Feel free to link to them and use them however you wish, all are released under the Creative Common Attribution license.
November 20, 2008 at 4:16 am
[...] am on November 20, 2008 | # | Tags: mentoring, opensim, secondlife Organized Hey Avatar! videos into one page after people from work and elsewhere asking for list of them. Also linked from Linden Video [...]
February 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm
hi can u help me go into second life world i dont know what to click to start the game
March 20, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Nice orientation videos Mo. Thanks. Best wishes, Ai (see you sometime in Opensim or SL)
April 24, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I am new to SL and have learned to move around and teleport but one thing that I need help with is how to step up on platforms and steps? Most of the time I just walk forward and no problem when I go up steps or platforms but there are sometimes where I just run into the step.
I end up flying to get up the step.
Can you give me a tip on how to do this?
Thanks!
April 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Hi Yvette and welcome to SL! You need to jump. The easiest way is while moving forward holding double-tap the up key (PageUp or e). This will cause you to jump rather than start flying. Hope this helps.
June 5, 2009 at 8:36 am
use the jump or walk to the side of the step and then attempt moving forward.
June 5, 2009 at 8:39 am
Thanks Mo Max on the tip to use the pageup key or e!!
June 12, 2009 at 9:17 am
[...] I know best is the highly publicized Academy of Technology conference in 2009 (for which I created these video tutorials and which prompted the reformation of IBM Second Life Mentors soon thereafter): Achieving that kind [...]
June 30, 2009 at 10:39 am
Great tutorials, thanks for sharing! I’m sending my students to take a look at them.