Somehow I made the list of “residents … helping to ensure that this is the best version yet” in the Help > About Second Life… window of the SL viewer.
I’m not sure exactly how I made the list (I assume from the Theater), but I’m honored to be on it.
When developing using states, don’t forget that the state_exit event can be used to perform cleanup instead of repeating cleanup tasks at each exit point from the state.
You can uses the state_exit to clear timers, shut off listens, reset globals, etc. While much of this cleans itself during the state change, things like timers persist [...]
I’m sure this is obvious to most, but be careful when creating sensors. I found myself sitting around in my theater today getting dialogs from the other side of the island warning me to not abuse a sandbox.
And yes, plural dialogs, so the other lesson is to make sure if you are going to sensor [...]
Ok, here’s what I want to produce sometime as a project. I want to create a script/anim combo where you feed it two lines you want to say. You make sure you are wearing sunglasses and have nothing attached to your hands. When you call the script with the two lines it triggers an animation [...]
I’ve put my first article online, it is a bit on the beginner side but talks about how to create non-repeating random playlists using stacks.
See it at http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/creating-non-repeating-random-sequences-using-stacks/ and let me know what you think.
I hope to add several more articles over the next little while as I wrote down more of what I’ve come [...]
I’ve added my first sample function to the site. The trim() function is used to strip any leading or trailing spaces from a string. It can be used for things like parsing notecards and user input.
See it at http://www.wakatech.com/scripts/functions/simple-trim-function/
Information Week has a four page article from inside the Second Life datacenter at http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800179.
From a scripter’s perspective this is interesting:
In an August, 2006 video, Ondrejka described how he wrote LSL. “It got written in a week, like all scripting languages,” Ondrejka said. He decided he needed to roll his own scripting language for [...]
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