title The Kingdom of Yaknetistan in Second Life -> "Bedstraw (128, 128)"
user strick
ip 216.218.244.9
vol 1
lock ********

The Kingdom of Yaknetistan, the Virtual Land of the Righteous Yak,
covers most of the
/link http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bedstraw/128/128/0/?title=Kingdom+of+Yaknetistan Township of Bedstraw
in the online virtual reality of
/link http://secondlife.com/ Second Life.


/center /b Join Second Life for free:

/center http://secondlife.com/ <- Main web site

/center https://secondlife.com/join/ <- Join with free account


/box(
/center /b Advocacy:
/b /link http://secondlife.com/whatis/ Second Life
is a virtual world with many thousands of people
simultaneously connected, creating their world.
It's a lot like the
/link http://opencroquet.org/ Croquet
system that Ryan and Strick were working on in 2005-2006,
but all grown up, done commercially, and running pretty smoothly,
using market forces within the world to make it work.
It's amazing both as a technical and as a social hack.
It's also like a MMORPG, except that everything is designed and created
by the residents (users) of SecondLife, rather than by level designers
(employees) of the company.  You can create objects, model places,
and script things yourself.

You can
/link https://secondlife.com/join/ create a free account,
and there are free clients
/link http://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php for Mac, Windows, and Linux(alpha).
Use "skip this step" option to avoid providing a credit card or a PayPal account,
although if you do provide one, you can convert some US dollars into Linden Dollars
to play with.

Ordinarily you need a paid $10USD/month membership to own land.
But if you're a YAK person, we've got land you can use, and we'll
give you a few Linden Dollars to spend.
/box)


/section Yak Members in Second Life
/list(
* /tt Strick Unknown
-- Yakmeister Strick
* /tt GregR Boram
-- Greg, Mallet
* /tt Throwthem Hansup
-- Iridium, Augusta
* /tt Mort Tran
-- EJ, PsiU
* /tt MrWerewolf Gao
-- Ryan, PsiU
* /tt Rabbi Redgrave
-- Robin, Mallet
* /tt Charley Heston
-- Dave M, Mallet
* /tt Suneku Nakamura
-- Jake, Mallet
* /tt October Fitzgerald
-- Jed, Mallet
* /tt simoncion Au
-- Simon Ion, Mallet
* /tt Mu Wei
-- Mu, Atlanta
* /tt Sidni Burton
-- Sidni, Mallet
* /tt Ronald Redgrave
-- Chris, Mallet
* /tt Maxwell Cronenwerth
-- McKenzie, Mallet
* /tt Fred Mathieson
-- Fred, Mallet
* /tt Rictic Yue
-- Peter, Kentucky
* /tt MechaSteve Harvey
-- MechaSteve, PsiU
* /tt Virgil Unknown
-- Virgil, Mallet
* /tt Johanson Lancaster
-- Tommy, Gatech
* /tt Greg Ozsvar
-- Greg B, Psiu
* /tt Tyler Voyager
-- Shadow, Atlanta
* /tt Jackson Ayres
-- Jackson, Tuscaloosa
* /tt Bowe Burum
-- Bowe, Raleigh
* /tt Bucky Zemlja
-- Melo, Sewanee
* /tt Yoshua Mandelbrot
-- Tobias in Germany
* /tt Kaxis Phlox
-- Andrew in Munich
* /tt ??
-- Chris in Willow Glen
* /tt Tem Pera
-- Reid Fleming, California

/list)


/section Joining the Yak Group
If you're a YAK person, add "Strick Unknown" to your friends,
and send me an email or something to let me know who you are.
I'll add you to the YAK group, and you'll be able to use the
YAK lands to build stuff.

/section What you really need to know
/list(
* /b Choosing a name:
You get to choose your in-world first name, and select from a list for
your last name.  The list of last names varies with time.
Start your first name with a Capital Letter; it just looks better in-world.
If you sign up with a bunch of friends at the same time,
you can all get the same last name, if you like.
* /b Arrows, PageUp, PageDown, and 'f':
Use the arrows to move around.  To fly or to stop, hit 'f'.
PageUp and PageDown move you up and down.  (If your focus is
elsewhere (like in a chat box), click in middle of screen
so 'f' works. Hitting ESC also gets out of modes.)
* /b Right-Click on objects for Pie Menu (Cmd-Click on Mac):
This menu lets you sit in chairs, touch things, edit stuff,
delete stuff.
* /b Use the maps, and teleport:
The Mini-Map and World Map are helpful.
Click on a place on the world map, and you can teleport there.
Also using the <Friends> button at the bottom, you can ask your
friends to teleport to you.
* /b Don't fret your apperance.
You can customize how you look later.
Get out and do some stuff instead.
* /b Inventory > Library > Objects
Pull objects out of the Inventory window and drop them in front of you.
There's a free scooter-Kart in there.
Beachballs are fun.
* /b Directions to the Yak:
With the button at the botttom of the screen,
open your <Map>.  Type "Bedstraw" next to <Search>.
Hit <Search>.  Then below,
Hit <Teleport>.
(You probably must find the EXIT on the first Orientation Island
before you can get to the main grid where Bedstraw (Land of the Yak) is.)
* /b BUGS!
Sometimes newbies get weird bugs, like Avatar is invisible, or map is empty.
Logging off and back on usually clears this up.


/list)

/bar
Scripting Links:
* http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
* http://oz.slinked.net/history/lsl2_reference.htm
* http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197008520&dept_url=/dept/ai/
* http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal


/bar
Scraps of code you don't need...
/pre(
// Strick's Cannon Script
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        integer i;
        //llSay(0, "Shooting 30 cannonballs...");

        float speed= 40;
        vector direction= llRot2Up( llGetRot() );
        for ( i=0; i<30; i++)
        {
        vector epsilon= < llFrand(0.3)+-0.15, llFrand(0.3)+-0.15, llFrand(0.3)+-0.15 >;
           llRezObject( "BlueRubberCannonball", llGetPos(), // position
                    //<1, 1, 10>,  // velocity
                    (epsilon + direction) * speed,
                    <0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0>,  // rotation
                    1   // param
                    );

        }
        //llSay(0, "... Done.");
    }
}

/pre)

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