Second life quickstart
- 1. Quickstart Welcome to your Second Life! This guide will help you get Guide started fast, by explaining how to complete some of the most common tasks you’ll need to get the most out of your new Second Life. It might be helpful to print this guide for reference as you explore the World. Mouse Keyboard Mic/Headset Viewer Interface You’ll use a mouse to click buttons, make You’ll use a keyboard to participate in text If you have a microphone and headphones This Quickstart Guide will teach you how selections, and interact with the Second chats, IMs, for searching, and more. Lots (or speakers), you can participate in real- to find and use the most important tools in Life Viewer interface. of common tasks are easier once you time voice conversations with other users. the Second Life Viewer software. learn keyboard shortcuts. File Edit View World Tools Help Orientation Island 130, 120, 26 (Mature) 7:21 PM PST L$ L$2500 Search Touch Sit Here Create Take Open Pay Edit More > Local Chat Say Gestures Talk Talk Communicate Fly Snapshot Search Build Map Mini-Map Inventory Symbols used in this guide Symbols used in this guide For help setting up your mic and headset, Symbols used in this guide see Panel 8. Right-click Contextual menus Keyboard key Sit (sit is selected) or Ctrl+click (On a Mac) Edit > Dropdown menus Preferences (Prefs. is selected) Left-click Stand Up Interface button Second Life Quickstart Guide 1
- 2. Viewer interface overview To access most of the features, tools and options in the Second Life Viewer, you’ll want to 1 get comfortable finding your way around both the Top Menu Bar and the Bottom Toolbar. Current Purchase L$ L$ Balance Location Top Menu Bar File Edit View World Tools Help Orientation Island 130, 120, 26 (Mature) 7:21 PM PST L$ L$2500 Search Media Controls Start, stop, adjust volume for Voice Chat Controls Access Local Chat history Local Chat input Gestures streaming audio and video See panel 6 Local Chat Say Gestures Talk Talk Bottom Toolbar Communicate Fly Snapshot Search Build Map Mini-Map Inventory Show/Hide Open Friends list Start Open Search Window Find People Manage Local Chat See panel 9 Flying See panel 12 Nearby Your Stuff As you explore the world of Second Life, you’ll encounter both people and 2 Viewer contextual menus objects to interact with. Many common actions and tools are accessed through contextual menus, which appear when you right-click on objects, yourself, or other users. Object Self Others Interact with objects you encounter, Hides the messages of See a list of groups such as buttons and links Ask the selected someone bothering you you’re a member of Put the selected user for permission in Local Chat so you object away in to add them to your can ignore them your inventory Friends list See your Friends list View and edit See the selected your profile user’s profile Give money, usually to purchase the Make changes to selected object your physical Send an IM to the appearance selected user Many objects you recieve will be boxes containing other objects - Remove individual Give a specified amount open them to see their contents Opens Gestures pieces of clothing of L$ to the user palette to see all and accessories available animations Second Life Quickstart Guide 2
- 3. Moving Seeing In Second Life, your avatar can walk, run, and even fly. By default, you’ll see Second Life from just behind your avatar, but 3 If you prefer, you can also use an onscreen control panel 4 you can move and turn the camera around to look at whatever you to move around. like - including yourself. Walk Sit Zoom in When sitting, you Turn Use alt plus the arrow Turn Walk forward must click Stand Up keys to move the camera camera alt before you can move left right camera around you Turn left Turn right again or fly Sit Alt + click to focus the camera on a new point Stand Up alt Walk back Fly Zoom out page To access the onscreen up movement control panel: Esc Communicate Fly Snapshot page Rotate camera Zoom in/out Move camera down in all directions in all directions View > Movement Controls Click Fly to begin flying, Page Up and Page Down keys To access this panel: Press Esc to return the and Stop Flying allow you to adjust your camera to its position to stop flying altitude and land comfortably View > directly behind you Camera Controls In Second Life, you can look like – and wear – anything you want. Edit your Appearance to adjust your physical features and 5 Appearance body, and select clothing, outfits and costumes to wear from your Inventory. You can customize your appearance however you like, or buy pre-designed avatars and outfits that other Residents have made. Inventory Right-click an item in File Create Sort Inventory and choose Wear to put it on All Items Recent Items Clothing Free and paid avatars and New Shirt (worn) outfits are available in stores Suit Jacket Blue Jeans To purchase, you’ll need Hiking Boots Linden Dollars, which can be bought by clicking L$ at the right of the Top Menu Bar L$ 30 Talk 0 Mini-Map Inventory To see a wide selection of items to purchase, visit XStreetSL.com Manage your clothing and avatars through the Inventory Second Life Quickstart Guide 3
- 4. Express yourself! You can talk to the people around Local chat & voice IMs & voice calls Want to have a private conversation? Use instant you through text-based Local Chat. If you have a 6 microphone, you can also speak out loud using 7 messages or voice calls to talk to other users, no matter where they are in Second Life. inworld voice. Active Voice friend Communicate Voice Local Chat input enabled Access Local Chat history Start a voice call Local Chat Communicate Fly Snapshot Enter message and press send Show/hide Voice Chat Press Talk to use voice. Choose the lock Multiple IMs appear as Local Chat Controls to keep voice on tabs along bottom controls Talk Current tab highlighted Unread IM in flashing tab Mini-Map Inventory You can also IM users who aren’t nearby from your Friends list. 8 Set up for voice chatlocationTiredheadset. Just followthe Voice features in Second Life, you’ll needno time.up your microphone Create a SLurl to the selected and of typing? To use these simple steps, and you’ll be talking in to set 1 Connect your microphone 4 Make sure Enable voice chat 5 Click Device Settings, then change or headset via audio-in or USB is checked both the input and output devices to Preferences your preferred microphone and speakers General Enable voice chat Voice Chat Device Settings Input & Camera Hear voice chat from camera position Hear voice chat from avatar position Audio Devices Network Input device (microphone): Web Push to Talk Default Graphics 3 Click Voice Chat Audio & Video Output device (speakers): Text Chat Privacy Options Default 6 If your mic is working, you will see green bars Voice Chat Input Level in the input level monitor Communication Device Settings Adjust the slider to control... 2 Open the Viewer preferences Popups NOTE: Running the Device Settings will temporarily disconnect you Skins from Voice Chat. 7 Click OK - when you start talking, you’ll Edit > see the voice indicator over your avatar’s Preferences About Help OK Cancel Cancel Apply head (see 6: Local chat & voice) Second Life Quickstart Guide 4
- 5. Second Life is a lot more fun when you have friends to explore it with. When you meet interesting 9 Make friends people, you can ask for permission to add them to your Friends list. Then, use the Friends list to see which friends are online, send them messages, view their profiles and more. friend you Send an IM Friends list View a friend’s profile Invite a friend to your Dornati Fellows current location Stanford Larington Gulliver Fushikano Online friends appear in bold Give a friend L$ Contacts Local Chat Wendy Borma Pedro Roltin Remove/Add friends The world of Second Life is gigantic, and getting bigger every day. If you want to visit a specific location, you can 10 Location search for it on the Map. You can create and save Landmarks – bookmarks that will bring you back to specific locations. Use Landmarks to save time, and jump straight to your favorite places! Gestures World Map Objects Terrain Teleport Person Land for Sale Find the locations of Build Map Mini-Map You can Teleport to get from your online friends Infohead Events one location to another quickly. Telehub Events (M) To invite a friend to your location, open your Friends list, Online Friends Find your previously Use the Map to find and click Teleport Landmarks created landmarks a specific location To create a landmark you can return to later: Brightonia Search Results: Search Search for new locations, SLurl (Second Life URL) Brightonia people, and events Bright Beach You can use SLurl to teleport World > to new locations. A SLurl is a Create Landmark Here Instantly Teleport to a web-based link to a location in Teleport specific location Second Life. If you click a SLurl To return to Landmarks you’ve created, Copy SLURL to clipboard with Second Life open on your computer, you can immediately open your Inventory and double-click Create a SLurl to the teleport to that location. on any item in the Landmarks folder. selected location Second Life Quickstart Guide 5
- 6. There’s a lot to learn in Second Life, but you’re never alone. If you have Second Life is packed with interesting things to do, people 11 Help questions, need advice, or don’t know what to do, help is always waiting 12 What next? to meet and places to explore. If you’re not sure what do to for you. Visit the Support Portal at secondlife.com/support to get help now! next, or want to see what’s new, you have lots of options. Support To find new activities, events Talk to other users in Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/support/ whenever you have questions and places to explore, visit: At secondlife.com/support, Support you will have access to the secondlife.com/showcase Knowledge Base, tickets, Portal and Billing Support Live Chat Support http://server.iad.liveperson.net/930994 Hi, Can you help me? Of course!course! What’s Of What’s the problem? the problem? Well, let me tell you... Enter Find help videos and Knowledge information on your Live Premium members have Use the Search feature to search access to Live Chat support Base avatar, Linden Dollars Chat in Second Life all of Second Life and more Say Gestures The Showcase tab displays Snapshot Search Build interesting places and things going on in Second Life Search Second Life All Classi eds Events Showcase Land Sales Places People Groups Find: Any Category Search If you can’t find the help you If you have a non-technical Support need in the Knowledge Base, Billing issue with your account, Narrow your search results using the tabs at the top of the search window to specifically search for events, places, people and more Tickets you can submit a ticket to the Support you can call the Billing Team Second Life Support Staff toll free 24/7 Second Life Quickstart Guide 6
- 7. Appendix: Keyboard Shortcuts Movement Communicate General Guide your avatar’s movements in Second Life. Access and participate in text-based Local Chat and Instant Quick access to useful Second Life resources, interfaces and tools. Messages with other users. Ctrl Walk forward W or Show chat bar / (if not displayed) Preferences Cmd + P Walk backward S or Hide chat bar Esc (if displayed) Help F1 Ctrl Ctrl Turn left A or Friends Cmd + Shift + F Search Cmd + F Toggle between Friends and Groups Tabs Ctrl Turn right D or World map Cmd + M with Alt Opt + Ctrl M Mini-map + Shift + Run Double-tap W S Ctrl Cmd Local chat Cmd + H Ctrl H or Teleport home Cmd + Shift + Ctrl T Communicate Cmd + Ctrl Ctrl Always run Cmd + R Inventory Cmd + I Ctrl Look at last speaker Cmd + E (Tap once) Build B Jump Ctrl Gestures Cmd + G Ctrl Toggle flying home Upload image Cmd + U page Ctrl Take snapshot + Shift + S Fly up Hold E or hold up System Cmd page Basic system-wide functions that work in Second Life. Ctrl + “ Fly down Hold C or hold down Snapshot to disk ‘ Ctrl Ctrl Quit Second Life Cmd + Q Undo Cmd + Z View Ctrl Redo Cmd + Y Control your camera view and perspective in Second Life. Ctrl Cut Cmd + X Mouselook M Copy Ctrl Cmd + C Esc Ctrl Reset View Paste Cmd + V Hold Alt and click mouse to recenter Ctrl Look at Duplicate Cmd + D Ctrl 0 Ctrl Zoom-in Cmd + Select all Cmd + A Ctrl + 9 Ctrl Key: Zoom-default Cmd Deselect Cmd + E Ctrl Ctrl Zoom-out Cmd + 8 Close window Ctrl Cmd + W Cmd = Ctrl on a PC; Command on a Mac Alt Opt Ctrl Alt Opt Toggle fullscreen + Enter Close all windows + Shift + W Cmd = Alt on a PC; Option on a Mac Second Life Quickstart Guide 7