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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Mar 2009.
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ascii art to Second Life (sl) chat grstures?

ascii art to Second Life (sl) chat grstures?

alt.ascii-art · 3 messages · 7 Mar 2009 - 9 Mar 2009
Anyone here know how to turn ascii art into Second Life chat gestures, 
with out having to do it line by line?

(For use in sl dance clubs) ok, Bad Girls! (:

If there is a way, it's not obvious to me at least.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Xam.

Maxine Landar wrote:

>Anyone here know how to turn ascii art into Second Life chat gestures, 
>with out having to do it line by line?
>
>(For use in sl dance clubs) ok, Bad Girls! (:
>
>If there is a way, it's not obvious to me at least.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>Xam.

Can you provide an explanation of how to render ASCII characters in
Second Life chat gestures?  Line by line?

Sharky wrote:
> Maxine Landar wrote:
> 
>> Anyone here know how to turn ascii art into Second Life chat gestures, 
>> with out having to do it line by line?
>>
>> (For use in sl dance clubs) ok, Bad Girls! (:
>>
>> If there is a way, it's not obvious to me at least.
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Xam.
> 
> Can you provide an explanation of how to render ASCII characters in
> Second Life chat gestures?  Line by line?

Sure hun, and thanks for your reply.

0. create free sl account, dl and install the sl viewer. log in.
1. open your inventory.
2. click the "create" menu
3. select "new gesture"
4. change the default /hay! trigger to something more appropriate
5. one at a time, select the two default "waves" animation and "waves" 
sound, and delete them by clicking delete.
6. select "chat" from the list, click "add" button.
7. enter first line of ascii gesture.
8. repeat step 7. for all other lines of ascii gesture.
9. click save.
10. click preview
11. rename the gesture in your inventory.
12. get your avatar looking good
13. go to a dance club (Bad Girls!) and show them off!
14. start selling and or giving them to people.

That's pretty well it.

You can of course use menu driven copy and past, but the standard 
windows/linux keyboard shortcuts are a lot faster. Also as you would 
probably know, blank spaces can get lost.

The main problem being that you can only (well I only know how to) add 
one chat lines at a time; and the area you can view your art in as you 
make it is quite small (can't see all of larger art at once), so you 
have to trigger them to see them in full, then tweak as needed.

You could google second life gestures, and look at the youtube clips by 
Torly Linden(sp?), for more details on adding sounds and animations to 
your gestures.

Have fun!
-Xam Landar
-Bad Girls Dancer

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