Second Life Basics

Dr. Lorri Mon,

Florida State University

College of Communication & Information

(September 19, 2009)

Camera Controls

Often you need to ZOOM IN to read signs, posters, books, or slides, or to look at something off in the distance. You can do this without physically moving your avatar:

On a Mac: holding down ALT or OPT key while moving your mouse forward zooms in, moving backward zooms out; for orbiting and panning, try also holding down CTRL and SHIFT keys e.g. ALT/OPT+CTRL+mouse; ALT/OPT+SHIFT+mouse

On a PC: holding down ALT while moving your mouse forward zooms in, moving backward zooms out; for orbiting and panning, try also holding down CTRL and SHIFT keys e.g. ALT+CTRL+mouse; ALT+SHIFT+mouse

Communicate & Local Chat ButtonsThe Communicate and Local Chat buttons give you a complete transcript of chat from the moment you walked in. You can click to pop it up at any time, highlight, copy, and paste it into a text document . It also has Tabs for each Instant Messaging session that has been occurring, such as IM’s from individuals or groups, or notices sent to you from groups. Note you can only “hear” someone who’s within 20m of you in a text chat.

Search Button

Click the “Search” button and you can then click a Tab at the top tosearch for People, Groups, Places. When you find a group, you can clickto join it; when you find people, you can Add Friend them, Instant Messagethem, Offer to Teleport them to where you are, and Drop Inventory to them.

Lorri Momiji

Inventory Button

Click “Inventory” and you will see a list of everything you own:Notecards (instructions, info)

Landmarks (map locations, teleports)

Objects (tools, clothes, avatars, etc.)

Be sure to also look under the Library folder! There is a lot of useful “stuff” you may not even realize that you own.

Inventory can be sorted by date, name;And you can search your inventory

A useful search : worn to see the items you are currently wearing

Map

Button

The Map button allows you to find places to “teleport” to. Name of the “sim”or island and the coordinates of the specific building/spot (the three numbers)are what you need to teleport there. SLurls (Second Life URLs) can also be opened up in your Web browser and will trigger that location on your map.The red circle appearing when you rightclick on the map is where you’ll go.

Want to savea location?Go to Menu“World” and“Create Landmark”to save alandmark to the location.

Next Time:We will

build and create!