It is important to make all of the features of the virtual world as accessible to users and to creators as possible. Scripts provide this accessibility. Teens can learn OSS (OpenSim Scripting) but the learning curve is fairly steep. Most will want a simple way to generate scripts for movement, for sound and for special effects.
You have a few options in how to create a script.
- You can create your own script.
- You can copy existing scripts and edit them for your purposes. An example of how to do that with sound scripts is in an earlier post.
- You can create YOUR OWN UNIQUE interaction using a script generator - Scratch for Second Life.
Scratch is an animation scripting program and is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Eric Rosenbaum is in this Group. He has taken Scratch and developed an interface to convert Scratch scripts to LSL (Linden Scripting Language) and OSS.
--> The link to download Scratch for Second Life (S4SL) is:
http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/
It looks like this when you open it:
The left column is Commands. Clicking on the categories on the upper left will bring up different commands that you can string together to create movement, sound and interaction. You drag the Commands into the Script area to create the script. Go to the next blog post to see an example of Creating and Using a Scratch Script.
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