http://www.wakatech.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I learned a new attribute of the llParseString2List function today (the hard way): When you use multiple separators, the order that the separators are listed in is important. If you want to parse a list of values like: Squeebee Wakawaka, You User, My Friend And also accomodate: Squeebee Wakawaka,You User,My Friend You need to add ... http://www.wakatech.com/scripting/a-special-note-when-using-llparsestring2list/ I've finished another article, this one on bringing an animated GIF into SL and showing it as an animated texture on a prim. http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/bringing-an-animated-gif-into-second-life/ Enjoy! http://www.wakatech.com/news/new-article-animated-gifs-in-sl/ I've added a new article on configuring scripts using notecards: http://www.wakatech.com/articles/lsl-scripting-basics/configuring-lsl-scripts-using-a-notecard/  Hope you like it! http://www.wakatech.com/scripting/new-article-on-using-notecards/ I use Dreamhost for my streaming video and quite like it. I'll be writing up a guide to streaming with Dreamhost soon, but in the meantime I thought I would mention you can use the promo code SLSTREAMING to save the activation fee when signing up. This Dreamhost promo code represents ... http://www.wakatech.com/hosting/a-dreamhost-promo-code-for-second-life-streamers/ The WakaTech Tube-O-Rama is a fully automated system for bringing YouTube videos into Second Life automatically. Users activate the Tube-O-Rama panels by paying a nominal fee (to cover server processor and storage costs), provide a YouTube URL, and the system does the rest. After a short delay while the video processes, ... http://www.wakatech.com/news/announcing-the-wakatech-tube-o-rama/ Well, it turns out that Linden Labs has banned gambling for lindens or real-world value items in SL. What is a casino owner to do? Simple, just do what the Yakuza do. In Japan, gambling for money is illegal, so while you buy Pachinko balls for money, you can't cash them in ... http://www.wakatech.com/second-life-news/linden-labs-bans-gambling-in-second-life-time-to-go-yakuza/ Perhaps you saw this on the official Linden blog, but if not: Wow, Just wow. High Quality Version http://www.wakatech.com/machinma/wow/ 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. http://www.wakatech.com/news/id-like-to-thank-the-academy/ 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 ... http://www.wakatech.com/scripting/clean-up-your-states/ 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 ... http://www.wakatech.com/scripting/watch-your-sensor-ranges/