Second life content creation tools

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All of these things together, and more, are called Content Creation. So, what does it mean to "Create Content"? This article is a high level overview. The Creation Portal takes you more in depth. It describes the broad categories of things that users of SL create, and what kinds of tools they use to create them.

Remember, this is your Wiki. Feel free to edit it to your satisfaction. A lot of people divide creation up by the tool used, such as scripting, textures, building, animation, and so on. Another way to look at it is that many different techniques are needed to create thing. For example, one can build a house using the object editor, but one might also need to create a door texture for it in GIMP, and write a script to make the door open and close. It is all one. There are two kinds of people in the world, the ones who think there are two kinds of people, and the ones who don't.

Lots of SL Residents buy a piece of virtual land, and start building a dream home, or at least a dingy flat. Maybe a fishing camp, or a ski lodge, or a beach house, or a mountain top castle with a dungeon.

As the tag line says, it is your imagination. There are lots of different approaches. Some people start out with the bulldozer tool in the Land Editor , and grade their land the way they want it. Then they buy a prefabricated house at a place like [SLExchange. With more money, one might have a house and landscaping designed and built by a custom builder.

It is also common to garden, either buying or making Flora and Fauna. The in-world building tools can be used to make many of these things from scratch. Yes, it takes time and practice, but for some people it is very fulfilling to see blocks of raw materials slowly assembled into a luxury retreat.

The default building material at first looks like plywood. If you want a marble wall instead of a plywood wall, then what? The answer is to apply a texture. This is an image of what the surface should look like, applied over the plywood. Good Building Practices - Tips and tricks for making good builds.

Natalia Zelmanov's Tutorials - A wealth of Resident-created guides in categories like jewelry, particles, and sculpties, all compiled neatly. In-World Maker Tools - Use these tools to help you create or modify content inworld.

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Travel the Mainland today! Natalia Zelmanov's Travel Guide - A long list of places you'll want to visit, from realistic to more fantastics builds. Good for newcomers and the experienced alike — capture memories and relive emotions!

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