Category Archives: Scripthackery
A Scripted Bagatelle
This evening, Lexx handed me a small object made by a fellow named Petr Brandenburg, that alternately flashed yellow and cyan. She couldn’t read the script inside it, so she didn’t know how it worked. She asked if I could … Continue reading
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Notecard Writing: A Modest Proposal
Jacek laments the lack of ability of scripts to write to notecards, thus depriving them of a potentially-useful mechanism for saving persistent data across script resets. (Other scripters have used the object name or description to store such persistent data, … Continue reading
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A Venue Submitted For Your Consideration
It would seem that the esteemed Ms. Malaprop, Script-Creator Extraordinaire, has grown frustrated to some degree with (what’s left of) the original Second Life Forums, at least for purposes of discussion of scripting, including the posting of properly formatted example … Continue reading
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Towards Mark II
I’ve somehow managed to sell a number of copies of the Erbosoft Distributed Music Changer, Mk.I, and, of course, I’ve been using it at the Gin Rummy and the Evans Family Compound for awhile now. However, I’m brainstorming ideas now … Continue reading
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Practical Applications of the Update
It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good…and one of the new API functions added in 1.13 has inspired a quick hack from me that is both ingenious and helpful. We have a private build-pad floating high above the … Continue reading
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Adventures In Applications
It’s been awhile since I posted any good LSL examples to this blog, so I’ll give you a fairly complicated one. Danielle wanted a kiosk in front of the Gin Rummy that would hand out “job application” notecards for any … Continue reading
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Scripthackery: Improvements On A Theme
When establishing the photo studio in one corner of Don’t Panic!, Danielle set up a backdrop prim with a number of different textures in it for picture backdrops. To switch between them, she came up with this little script: default … Continue reading
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Scripthackery: A Kind of Magic
So, last night, Danielle and I were hanging out with Skye Galileo and Alexander Lapointe at Danielle’s new store, Don’t Panic (conveniently located near the Cutlass Club). Alex had with him an object he’d created at a Building Shelter competition…a … Continue reading
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Tram solutions
(This started out as a comment to the latest blog entry of the esteemed Ms. Ordinal Malaprop, but, upon further reflection, should really expend my bandwidth rather than hers. Of course, I’m trying to write my response in Caledon style…it’s … Continue reading
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