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Making an Animated Texture for Second Life

 Animated Textures for Second Life Animated textures in Second Life work differently than animated gifs. Now there are scripts and software out there that will let you convert animated gifs into images that will work in Second Life, but if you make them yourself you will have much more control over the outcome. All animated textures in Second Life work by adding a script into the object the texture is on. There are two general categories for animated textures, ones that move around one from, and ones that change frames.  The ones that move around a single frame are the easiest, because to animate them you just need a script to slide, rotate, or zoom in and out of the texture. The ones that change frames require you to set up an image with multiple frames; these are the ones this tutorial will cover. For examples of the lines of script you would need to animate your texture please visit http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetTextureAnim . On the image you have to divide it ...
Blender Beginners: Using Curves to Make a Rope Adding a Curve to the Scene: To add a curve you can use the hot key Shift + A then go to Curve then to Bezier Or you can go to the bottom of your screen where it says Add, then choose Curve, then Bezier Editing the Curve The hot key to go into edit mode is Tab Or at the bottom of your screen you can click where it says Object Mode and switch it to Edit Mode *Note: You can scale (Hot Key S), grab (G), and rotate ( R) in Object Mode, but that can give you strange and unexpected results when dealing with curves so I would only recommend doing that in Edit Mode. You can see the default curve more easily from Top View, the hot key is 7 on the Number Pad, or at the bottom of your screen you go to View, then Top. In Edit Mode, and looking at the curve from Top View, you will see that it has a few parts to it. The structure of a curve It has 3 basic parts Control Point Handle Se...