EOTB: New "Second Life University" Video, "Getting Started with the Avatar Welcome Pack and Project Zero"

 

 

Remember the Second Life University Youtube videos? From 2022 to 2023, Linden Lab would occasionally release an instructional video about some aspect of this virtual world such as the controls of the viewer. They would continue until August 2023, then stop. 

 

On Monday November 22, Linden Lab announced it had done a new Second Life University video, covering two subjects, the Avatar Welcome Pack, and "Project Zero," the browser-based viewer. 

 

 

Class is back in session! Second Life University returns with a special new episode featuring Boston Blaisdale! We are excited to welcome him back to the series as we give it a fresh restart.

In this new video, Boston walks you through the Avatar Welcome Pack, showing you how to build a fully customized, high-quality avatar at no cost, then introduces Project Zero, a new streaming viewer that lets you log in from your web browser with no download required.

 Several topics around the Welcome Pack are discussed by narrator Boston Blaisdale, such as where to find it and mixing & matching items. Several topics around Project Zero are also gone over, such as managing what one is wearing. 

 

The Lab promises more videos over the coming weeks. 

 

 To read the blog post in full, Click Here. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Lab Gives Residents "The Avatar Welcome Pack"

 

On Thursday April 24, Linden Lab announced they had given all residents a package of items, "The Avatar Welcome Pack."

We are delighted to announce the Avatar Welcome Pack, a starter wardrobe that will give any new resident a strong beginning in the often intricate process of creating an avatar. A number of Second Life creators have generously donated items, some of them crafted exclusively for the pack ...New residents using this pack will have an easier time because of some simplifications. HUDs are a particular challenge for new users, so none of the body parts or clothing require them. All clothing items come with alpha layers, so new users will not need to manually hide body parts. Third, the heads and bodies look great out of the box with no adjustments needed.

It's notable this was announced just one day after Linden Lab stated it was looking for content creators to partner with to make Avatar Welcome Packs. So presumably this is the first of them. 

To get the Avatar Welcome Pack, well, if you're a Second Life resident, you already have it. Just check in your Inventory, and look under the "Library" section. Opening the welcome pack, there are four more folders: Female Bodies and Looks, Female Items, Male Bodies and Looks, and Male Items. Each of those for has several packages, They contain various complete mesh avatars, plus clothing and accessories such as wings. There's also a notecard on how to use the contents. 

According to Ryan Schultz, the Pack was delivered by accident almost two weeks ago, which allowed those who found out a chance to walk around in the appearances and outfits for a few hours until the Lab took them down again until Tuesday April 22. Ryan would suggest that one reason for the bodies in the Avatar Welcome Package was that the Senra starter avatars introduced by Linden Lab a year and a half ago "were a bit of a failure ... They were a bit odd-looking (particularly the heads), and they stuck out like a sore thumb on the grid," and few content creators bothered making clothes for them, "So Linden Lab went back to the drawing board, and this time around, they reached out to established and well-known Second Life content creators to partner with."

For more information, Click Here for the Linden blog post.

 

Source: Ryan Schultz

 

Bixyl Shuftan