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Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready–to–use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control, automation, land control, combat, special effects, environment control and physics, and interacting with the world outside of Second Life. After you read this engaging book, you will possess a solid understanding Linden Scripting Language conventions.
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Your second life is how you script it
Scripting is the spice of Second Life, and this official guide to the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) is the complete scripting resource for making your Second Life creations come to life, interacting with players, creating dazzling special effects, and adding realism to the virtual world. The authors are an expert team of programmers who cover every single aspect of LSL, from the basics of avatar movement and communication, to physics and special effects, to interacting with the world outside of Second Life.
This thorough reference and tutorial features detailed walk–throughs and step–by–steps that teach the "why" of scripting while explaining core LSL conventions. It includes more than 50 exclusive, brand–new custom scripts that you can use and modify right now. Make doors open automatically, put a message in a bottle and watch it float out to sea, create a tip jar, and start a storm complete with loud thunderclaps and flashing lightning.
Understand the Linden Scripting Language: Master every aspect of Second Life′s programming language
Automate with scripts: Greet visitors by name, teleport around the world, and dance with a partner
Learn physics and vehicles: Create a jet pack, a magic carpet, and a machine gun
Use environmental controls: Create moving shadows, make water splash, and have bees flit from flower to flower
Integrate multimedia: Dazzle residents with streaming TV and ambient soundscapes
Incorporate the outside world: Build a live news ticker and send e–mail
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Aesthetically, I personally found this book is very well laid out, colourful and easy on the eyes. It contains many screenshots and even explanatory diagrams. The structure allows the advanced LSL scripter to scan read to use the book as a decent reference and is complete with keyword indexes in the appendices. All levels of LSL scripters will enjoy the side notes on many pages that explain the aspects being discussed in more detail and gives build notes and useful tips.
The content of the book itself starts with a decent introduction to the LSL scripting language. It gives seasoned programmers the information they need to get started and yet at the same time provides detailed explanations of the syntax for beginners to begin to understand.
The book goes on to cover many various examples with detailed explanations, achieving what I feel is a nice balance with the amount of example code to theory. To take one chapter as an example, it explains the settings of vehicle parameters, handling input controls from the user and setting the position and rotation of the viewer's camera plus example code to get started with. It is enough to get going on scripting a vehicle in LSL. Advancements in this area would come from experimentation by the LSL scripter herself and by reading the book's tabulated explanations of all the vehicle parameters and functions. The side notes in this chapter include a useful time-saving warning when combining two of the mechanisms for moving objects and also a note on other scripts to look out for in world and even a link to a wiki that hosts complete sailboat scripts.
What I particularly enjoyed about the book was discovering how others have used LSL scripting. I'd fully expect this book to inspire the LSL scripter into creating something that they may not have tried without having had the book to explain the workflow to them.
Overall, a very respectable and professional book. I'm very pleased with the copy I have.
The content of the book itself starts with a decent introduction to the LSL scripting language. It gives seasoned programmers the information they need to get started and yet at the same time provides detailed explanations of the syntax for beginners to begin to understand.
The book goes on to cover many various examples with detailed explanations, achieving what I feel is a nice balance with the amount of example code to theory. To take one chapter as an example, it explains the settings of vehicle parameters, handling input controls from the user and setting the position and rotation of the viewer's camera plus example code to get started with. It is enough to get going on scripting a vehicle in LSL. Advancements in this area would come from experimentation by the LSL scripter herself and by reading the book's tabulated explanations of all the vehicle parameters and functions. The side notes in this chapter include a useful time-saving warning when combining two of the mechanisms for moving objects and also a note on other scripts to look out for in world and even a link to a wiki that hosts complete sailboat scripts.
What I particularly enjoyed about the book was discovering how others have used LSL scripting. I'd fully expect this book to inspire the LSL scripter into creating something that they may not have tried without having had the book to explain the workflow to them.
Overall, a very respectable and professional book. I'm very pleased with the copy I have.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I've read other LSL books and they always seem to assume a level of existing scripting knowledge you may not necessarily have. Thankfully, this one covers the basics in Chapter 1 and then moves straight into real scripting, introducing and explaining functions and techniques in a non-condescending way throughout.
The book's full of script examples and, for once, they're creative and worthwhile - you never get the feeling you've been sent to the remedial woodwork class to make a magazine rack you don't need... :-)
There's a complete listing of LSL code at the back which not only references a brief explanation of each entry but also (usually) gives an example of that function as it might be used in a working script - something the online LSL wiki doesn't always have. It's one thing to grasp what a function does but even more useful to see its practical application. There's also a good linked website hosting the script examples, forums and details of the few erratum, if you like to pore over those.
As befitting an 'official guide' this has to be the best and most complete LSL book currently available and hopefully it will be kept up-to-date with new functions as they get added to Second Life. It's been worthwhile for me - it's already helped me earn enough L$ to repay the cost of the book a hundred times over! Highly recommended.
The book's full of script examples and, for once, they're creative and worthwhile - you never get the feeling you've been sent to the remedial woodwork class to make a magazine rack you don't need... :-)
There's a complete listing of LSL code at the back which not only references a brief explanation of each entry but also (usually) gives an example of that function as it might be used in a working script - something the online LSL wiki doesn't always have. It's one thing to grasp what a function does but even more useful to see its practical application. There's also a good linked website hosting the script examples, forums and details of the few erratum, if you like to pore over those.
As befitting an 'official guide' this has to be the best and most complete LSL book currently available and hopefully it will be kept up-to-date with new functions as they get added to Second Life. It's been worthwhile for me - it's already helped me earn enough L$ to repay the cost of the book a hundred times over! Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with all the other Second Life official guides, this one doesn't talk down to you and takes you through scripting step by step. I found it very useful and genuinely feel I understand a lot more about how the Second Life scripting language, LSL, works. A must buy for all new scripters.
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WARNING: DO *NOT* BUY THIS FOR YOUR KINDLE. None of the tables or example scripts are legible. A REAL DISGRACE! Read more
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