Hey People! Please excuse me while i say something for all the n00bs in the world, whether their "inexperience" is their fault or not, and without judging anyone's learning speed, patience, or whatever else those with criticize the others who are without for lacking. Maybe i'm just "challenged" myself, but i haven't found anything, anywhere that comes even close to being a "one stop" resource for builders, scripters, land owners, etc. Even the user guide stuff could use better organization and a "more engaging" presentation. It's not like a bunch of us don't have the skills needed to put together a totally killer instruction manual for SecondLife like the one you don't get (but really ought to) for FL (First Life). It's the time, charter, & all the other stuff you have to have to eat & pay tier for in all your lives that gets in the way of doing what i guess too many people don't value enough to hire someone to do a good job of. It's pretty sad, too, because i think there's easily enough active SL premium residents that 10 cents a month from each of them would fund an awesome project, maybe even with some revenue opportunities for LL. What i mean is sometthing like a book that's a website (best with continually updated information) that does the A to Z thing for all the builder & scripter tasks with regular resident & landowner sections to go with it. Not just recipes, but recipes with explanations. A lot of the material needed to start a project like that has already been written, it just needs to be all put all together and organized better. The next step could be to get together a list of all the things people build and script for a comprehensive set of tutorials that covered everything from t-shirts and shoes to complete avatars, vehicles, weapons, shopping malls, and applications for all those advanced features that curious people screw everyone else up with while they experiment. The finished product would have to include a complete set of sample textures, scripts, animations, etc., along with usage tips for at least all the common RL tools, like Photoshop, Blender, Qavimator, and so on. Links to other websites like Adobe, Cinemacchiato Machinima and all that are great for support, but something that has a unified Look & Feel has to happen first. If people already aren't using the material & functionality available, that says the stuff hasn't been made attractive enough, or easy enough to understand, or obviously useful enough for them to be unable to stop themselves from taking advantage of the help & instruction. The point is, if we want people to behave and do things right, it's not all that productive to just expect them to figure it all out for themselves, especially when there's so much bad info going around - some of it produced by people with social adjustment issues and plain malicious intent. And, it's kinda rude to tell someone to take their whatever and go hang out in another sim without trying to help them learn how to do better. Not having enough understanding just creates resentment and more unhelpful behavior. Sorry about the long message. - AK On 28 September 2010 11:20, Ann Otoole
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