Mundane+and+Magical+Movement

**Mundane and Magical Movement - under construction**
//"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."// - Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ), English physicist and science fiction author //"To this day, no one can decide whether I am a scientist or a humorist."// - Charles Fort (1874-1932), American author who coined the term 'teleportation'

If you click on the "Move" button along the bottom of your viewer, you can select "walk," "run," or "fly" by clicking on the appropriate icon at the bottom of the pop-up window. The navigation arrows are self-explanatory, but for detailed explanations, you can click on the "?" to invoke the Help Browser. Most of the time, you will probably move your avatar with the arrows on your keyboard, using "up" to move forward, "down" to walk backward, and the left and right arrows to rotate left and right, and only open "Move" to click the "fly" icon.

You can override the standard animations in SL with Animation Overrides (AOs). You can use AOs to change how your avatar moves, stands, and gestures. In your Inventory, you will find two main folders for animation: the gestures folder and the animation folder. Gestures are animations for activities such as laughing, pointing, gesticulating wildly... The ones associated with every new account are linked to triggers, often automatically triggering when you type a slash and the gesture's name or say the gesture's name. Within the gestures folder, you can turn a gesture on and off by right-clicking on one and choosing activate or deactivate.

Residents move throughout SL by teleporting directly to their selected locations.

As a web browser uses bookmarks, SL uses Landmarks.

A Landmark contains a region name and three positioning coordinates within that region. When you want to share a Landmark outside of Second Life, you can use a Second Life URL, or SLurl, to create a teleport link to that location. Please see http://slurl.com/about.php for more detailed information. For help building your SLurls, see http://slurl.com/build.php.

Web Service APIs: The SL Map API is a client-side set of Javascript functions and objects. You can click anywhere on a Map to open a teleport window. The teleport window invokes the gotoSLURL global function. Clicking on "teleport now" starts the SL viewer and teleports you to the point you selected by clicking on the map.

Associated Topics:

- Animations, Gestures, Poseballs - using, buying, creating, sharing - Dancing, Sword Fighting, other Game Playing, Horseback Riding (or choose your mount: Elephant, Dragon, Pterodactyl) - Capturing Movement via Video!