Leda 200, 14, 53 (Mature) Newbies Paradise
Today I checked out something I'd seen advertised in a few different spots in SL (Bear, New Albion, and other NCI places). It's called Yadni's Junkyard. It's basically a place where you can get free scripts for almost anything you need for a start up 2l. Everything is there, from the necessary to the most bizarre unessential add-ons you can think of.
A few 'days' ago I was thinking about why there were certain tutorials that resurfaced again and again and again. Some of these seemed completely superfluous to me. I couldn't think of the reason there were so many tutorials on how to work your inventory. SOme of these tutorials even talked about a 'time' in your 'life' when you had sooo much stuff that you really need a good system in place for inventory and storage. They even mentioned how to 'get rid of stuff' using 'boxes' to jettison things out of your inventory. I remember thinking "dude, right".
Now I get it. I took me to come here to understand the amount of scripts and objects that have been amassed by the populace of this place. So many, and s much for free. Here is the place where you can obtain a lot of the stuff that is just old hat, commonplace or just the product of a overactive imagination, and the desire to experiment. In a few minutes I have amassed a 'world' of scripts. So many that this little voice in my head was like 'ok, try and remember that tutorial about how to use a system of folders in your inventory'.
In the Junkyard there are walls of gadgets, textures, even cars, and house-scripts to be had. Piles of things to pick up. So I did! There is even a place in the 'backyard' where the scripts you get here are enabled (you can't use them inside. Kinda cool. I want to check out the rest of this are, see what other possibly useful places are in the neighborhood.
In the very near future, I will re-explore the skills I have seen repeated a few times so far. A good rule of thumb is, f someone went through the trouble of making a larger billboard script to show you how to do something, chances are its important.
Problem is, that there's no way a newbie can know. And I don't really remember any kind of 'Do this, then do that, this will be important and here's why' list around anywhere. I guess I was so freaked out by the lack of really understanding this new place that I didn't read the 'signs' literally and figuratively.
Well the upswing is that I 'get' how to use my inventory. I had a bit of practice just now. I think that it would be useful to put a link to a place like this in the tutorial and also give a 'card' that tells you what to do wit ha task on it for when you arrive. Maybe something requiring the collection of few specific items, with instructions on a task that makes you sort them , work with the filters, create some folders and then get rid of a few (perhaps in a box). This, I think would make the learning meaningful... it would also create a 'just in time' element to the task, making you use what you learned immediately, Situating it in a meaningful and useful context. Then maybe you could go behind the 'wall' and try a few of these scripts out. (let you practice running them and 'rezzing' these objects and do-dads. Hmmm Sounds pretty sound to me.
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