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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 790.20285
EAN num: 9780470339831
ISBN number: 0470339837
Label: Sybex
Manufacturer: Sybex
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 16, 2008
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Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain acess to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting.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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This is, by far, the best book yet on writing LSL scripts for Second Life! It is easily the cleanest, most straightforward and most comprehensible presentation of the Linden Scripting Language you will find anywhere. Chapter 1 is a fantastic summary reference as well. If you are interested in scripting in Second Life, you must get this book! If you are not, you should be! A wonderful world awaits you!
All the best,
William F Zachmann, President and CEO, Canopus Research Ltd.; Senior Analyst, Enterprise Social Networking, Wainhouse Research; a.k.a. Arifi Saeed, Research Director, SL, Canopus Research Ltd.
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Glad to get the scripting SL book...This has helped with basic understanding of the scripts and how they work...Was hoping for a little more on timed, multiple animation info "but"...we can't have it all ;-)
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A great book to learn LSL scripting. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is just starting to learn to script in Second Life.
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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.
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