| Texture is Geek for picture. In Second Life, builders use pictures to make a surface look, for example, like wood or brick. You can also use pictures to show things, just as you do around the house. |
Gimp-Savvy
Archive Collection of over 25,000 pictures you can download and use (free of copyright). |
| Getting images. Second Life can work with most .jpg images you would want to upload. The Building Textures page gives links to some useful sources for building textures. | Building Textures |
| Uploading pictures to Second Life. These building textures will probably require no editing. Download one to your desktop. Then open Second Life and upload it. | Top menu: File>upload image (L$10). The upload will go into the Textures folder of you inventory. |
| Using pictures in Second Life. To see how to use the picture, create a cube and drag the image onto one side of the cube. Adjust the sides to make it like a canvas for your image. |
Easter Eggs
Take a copy of this sign to practice with images (textures). |
| Editing pictures in Second Life Any image processor will do for working with .jpg images. I use the Gimp because it is free and gives me no trouble when I have to install it on a new computer. | Gimp 101 |
| The transparency trick. Digital images can have an extra feature: transparency. This feature is called the alpha channel. You will want it when you want an image that is not rectangular. To use it, you need a sophisticated image processor like Photoshop or the Gimp. | Using the
alpha channel in the Gimp. |
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Taking Still Pictures in Second Life.
Second Life provides its own camera functions, but I
prefer to use Fraps (the registered version). One click of a
function key puts a .jpg image on my drive. I can then edit it
(or rather, them) and upload as I please.
I use the Fraps settings to send the pictures to a file separate from the video clips. Makes it easier to work with each separately. |
Fraps |
| You can also assign textures with scripts. | Colors and textures in LSL |
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