How to Wear Two Alpha Layers in Firestorm Viewer
Now that a lot of people wear mesh clothes with an alpha layer that comes with it, a question has arisen about how to wear two alpha layers at the same time. Shoes in particular, be they mesh or prim, often come with alpha layers too — and if you try to wear them with [...]
6 Tips For Selling On The SL Marketplace
I’ve been selling on the SL Marketplace for a couple of years now and have nearly 400 items listed. While the Marketplace will never replace an inworld location for me, I can’t imagine not having it. Sales are good on the Marketplace. It’s the way people tend to shop now, and some creators claim it’s [...]
Getting Natural Ash Hair
While there are hair stores who offer a variety of colours to choose from, I find many neglect to offer shades in cool ash brown. You’ll find plenty of golden or reddish tinted brown, but for some reason the cool shades tend to be neglected in light brown hair packs. Why is this? My guess [...]
The Free Dove
I’m not usually a fan of freebie places, but for people new to Second Life who have no lindens, a nice place with no-cost items can be a welcome sight. One place I visited as a newbie is The Free Dove. The store has been around for seven years and you can find a variety [...]
How To Run Multiple Viewers at the Same Time
Now and then I (still) get asked how to log more than one avatar in at a time. Thought I’d bring out one of Torley Linden’s old tutorials to explain it.
Noobs
BY SHAUNA SKYE Most of us have this niggling thing inside of us that tells us we should treat others the way we want to be treated. It’s called a conscience and, I believe, is probably what keeps most of us from simply annihilating SL noobies. If we have a baby in first life, that [...]
Dove Lady’s Advice: How To Be Attractive
BY SHAUNA SKYE Yesterday while exploring the blogosphere I stumbled across a woman giving advice on how to be seductive to men. Ok, I know what you’re thinking: What am I doing reading a site like that? Well, first it wasn’t that kind of site, and second I thought it couldn’t hurt to see what [...]
The Ultimate Guide For Noobs (Part2)
BY STAFF WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER Last week I looked at the basics of stepping up a gear as a new Resident in Second Life and taking on a more convincing appearance. Hopefully you also gained some pointers as to some of the more fundamental things that every self-respecting avatar needs to have a grasp of [...]
The Ultimate Guide For Noobs – In Two Easy Instalments!
BY STAFF WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER So, you’re new to Second Life, you’ve made your first tentative steps off Welcome Island and you want to make your mark in this crazy, eye-popping, mind-blowing brave new world. Where do you start? You’re acutely aware that everything about you screams ‘Noob!’, but you want to be taken seriously, [...]
Second Life Field Guide
BY STAFF WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER The extraordinary diversity of lifestyles and approaches that people take to Second Life can occasionally lead to confusion and even embarrassment. Whilst we may feel perfectly at home amongst our usual circle of friends, a visit from a stranger whose interests are not at all within our normal experience can [...]
The Most Annoying Instant Message
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Instant messages can be a happy thing. If I hear from a good friend, I am pleased to see their name pop up on my screen. There is one particular IM that grates on me, though. It never comes from friends, but from strangers or people I do not know well. [...]
Derender
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE There’s this club I really like to go to. My only issue is the mass amount of lights spinning from their ceiling. When I try to cam around, I get caught on them and my camera spins me around in fog. Trying to work my way over to tip the DJ [...]
How To Not Be a Loser With Women in SL
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Note: I was in a funny mood when I wrote this. I had been aggravated by two needy advice seeking young men one week who were IMing me to death (at the time). After writing this I decided not to publish it since it “gives advice” and sometimes advice giving articles [...]
Profile Snooping
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE This happens quite often. A random avatar walks by and curious as I am, I read their profile. A profile is one of the first things I look at when I see someone in Second Life since it can answer some basic questions. What groups has this person joined? What does [...]
Return to SLV2: Physics Lessons
BY ASSISTANT EDITOR PAYPABAK WRITER Is this an annual thing for me? I seem to have done this before: thrown my arms up in disgust over the way my SL viewer of preference is performing and go back to the “other” third party viewer. Well, on recommendations from a couple of close friends, I downloaded [...]
Manners Maketh The Avatar
BY STAFF WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER With Linden Lab crowing about the success of the latest viewer and the ‘improved’ registration process, which they say has resulted in a big increase in new residents, I think it’s high time that something was said about the appropriate way to behave in Second Life – let us consider [...]
The Seven Ages of an Avatar
BY STAFF WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER Old Will Shakespeare was pretty good at observing life. Perhaps one of his better known observations is that found in ‘As You Like It’, (specifically Act 2, Scene 7). You know the one… it starts off “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players…”: The [...]
Building Stuff for Noobs
BY WRITER GRAZ FIRECASTER This article is aimed at people who would like to build things in Second Life but haven’t got a clue where to start. If you’re an experienced builder you might want to skip this article completely. If you do decide to read on please try to refrain from pointing and laughing [...]
Antique Radio
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT I found a real little beauty when I was looking for a radio station for some land. I wasn’t looking for anything too complicated, but just wanted a simple radio station since I’d seen Jukeboxes around that didn’t require URLs or software. On the hunt for a Jukebox I came [...]
Find a Job
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Hi gang. I’ve put a space in Moonletters town where people can hire staff or find jobs. We have more traffic at Penny Lane than many job agencies in SL, and much less expensive since I’m only charging 25L per week. I’ve also included space for those who just want to [...]
Master Your Landmarks
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER Moving to a new sim has to be among the most stressful aspects of owning a business or running some kind of entertainment enterprise in Second Life. So many necessities to consider. With the release of CHIC’s Master Landmark System (MLS), notifying everyone who has your landmark in his [...]
Irritating Noob Behavior
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Old school noob in Liverpool sim, Circa 2007. I’ve noticed certain irritating noob behavior over my years in Second Life. I generally don’t let my irritation show, but must admit that I do sigh inwardly. If the person is truly new and they do some of the things on my list [...]
How to Stop Being a Cloud
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Have you ever been a cloud in Second Life? You login and instead of seeing your avatar, all you see is this cloud hovering there. Others may see you as a cloud, a noob, or some don’t notice a difference with you at all. But for you, on your screen, you [...]
Get off the Landing Point
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE When you teleport to a place, have you ever been stuck in the air with your arms flailing? No matter what you did, you couldn’t move, you just hung there helpless, waving your arms wildly; and it usually happens when you’re with people you want to look cool in front of. [...]
Make Those Blobby Objects Look Better
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Have you ever seen an object in Second Life that appeared like a blob? Other people said it was a chair, but all you saw was a round thing? If so, you’re probably looking at a sculpted prim. Scultped prims are a big part of Second Life now, allowing creators to [...]
Version 2 Viewer Quandary Grows
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER A Lexi Morgan plurk from last week was resolved for the good but points out a sticky problem among users of all the various viewers that are out there for visiting Second Life. While so many people hate Viewer 2.0, there have been improvements and additions in functionality in [...]
What Does Your AO Say About You?
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE In Second Life as in real life, what someone looks like can leave a huge impression. Whether we want to or not, we often make assumptions of others based on what our eyes see. While some people are less superficial than others, even the nicest individuals are not immune to forming [...]
Help and Advice For DJs
BY GUEST WRITER GRAZ FIRECASTER Editor’s Note: This Help and Advice was written for new DJs starting out at the indie club AAi. I thought some of our readers might find it useful in general, not just for AAi, so I asked Graz if it would be all right to publish it on Moonletters. He [...]
Torley Linden Amplifies My Awesome
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE “I amplify your awesome . . .” –Torley Linden If you’re a resident of Second Life and have not heard of Torley Linden, you’ve probably been living in a virtual cave. Torley Linden is arguable one of the most famous Lindens, because he’s made himself invaluable to everyday SL residents. I’ve [...]
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