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Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University shows you how to create a light switch in Second Life with scripting. Part 1 demonstrates how to create a prim switch which turns on (brightens) a prim in Second Life. Part 2 goes through the Light Switch code line-by-line and adds a rotor to the light switch. The code is provided for free distribution on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/secondlifelivelyscripts/under the downloads tab. So check it out and see how to make light switches from...

Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University demonstrates how to build a jet band using Jeff Heaton's jet pack code. What is a jet band? Well, it's like a jet pack but smaller and allows you to go higher than 200 meters when flying in Second Life. Part one shows you how to create the code for the jet band. In part 2, the code is modified to remove the altitude reading below 70 meters.So if you are ready to build in the sky in Second Life and can't get up there, watch this tutorial and build a...

This is a basic tutorial which teaches how to get free stuff in Second Life and use it to build large structures fast. It is for beginner Second Life users and teaches linking, unlinking, and duplicating commands. If you are new to Second Life, watch and learn how to build big buildings fast with stuff that's already there.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a flexible tail in Second Life. It uses a simple cone primitive and blue plasma texture. Second Life is much fun to draw in as this tutorial will show you.

In Final Fantasy VII, crossing the marsh without a chocobo is much easier than you think, even though the Midgar Zolom is a big challenge upon first doing so. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to do so. You do need at least 600 HP to be safe for each of your characters, though 1000 is recommended. It does do about 430 or so damage per action so you'll certainly need to have cure spells at the ready. Plenty of MP is also recommended along with a few phoenix downs in case the...

So you beat the final boss in Final Fantasy VII and it seemed way too easy considering the amount of time you've invested into this epic game. There are two additional hidden bosses in the US version of Final Fantasy VII: Emerald and Ruby Weapon, both of which are substantially more powerful than the final boss. In order to even contend with the game's hidden bosses, your characters will need to be maxed out. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to max out your party's strength...

In Final Fantasy VII, it's possible to max out vitality without any store-related progress needed if your strength stat has already been maxed. Take a look at this video and learn how to max out vitality simply by targeting an enemy called "spiral". This enemy has around 2800 HP so you'll need to drop it down. I prefer to use the enemy skill Trine for this because it uses relatively little MP and deals 2000 damage. Above 2700 is not recommended. For restoring MP, I use the "MP absorb" materia...

Saving the world an be costly and in Final Fantasy VII, a part of leveling up is to get the funds you need to buy weapons, potions, and materia in your quest to defeat the villain Sephiroth. In this now classic Final Fantasy game, selling mastered materia can be extremely lucrative, particularly All materia. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to get quick gil by defeating rare Magic Pots in a specific area of the game.

This how-to video shows how to get 200 gold every hour in WOW. This is a glitch in the game, and could prove to be very useful. World of Warcraft is a PC game and uses online play.

This how-to video shows how to enable the ability to stream audio and video through Second Life. This is very self explanatory, but for those that don't know, this how-to video should help.

This how-to video shows how to drift in NFS Pro Street. The care used is called a Silvia, and it is a great car for beginners.

This is a tutorial on NFS Pro Street. This how-to video shows how to drift on the car Silvia Ryo.

This instructional video will show you how to use an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive on the Asus EEE PC. This tutorial will teach yo to play movies and CDs with the cheap Xbox 360 HD-DVD player.

Heres a video that teaches you how to mod cars in Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City for the PC.

In this video Jason Welsh imports and plays a new character step by step in Unreal Engine 3.0. for Unreal Tournament (UT3).

Learn how to create dynamic lighting, constraints on moveable lights, and dynamic shadows in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War.

This tutorial shows you how to export a character out of Maya and into the generic browser to animate it in Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War.

Learn how to put Kismet Strings together with dynamics, a trigger, and much more to create a very unique effect in the Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War.

Learn how to breakdown a game level for assets for you maps in Gears of War using the Unreal Engine 3. This example will show you how to create rain.

This tutorial shows you how to path Artificial Intelligence monsters in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War. This allows them to move around and get them to attack players.

This video deals with Constraints on Rigid Bodys within the engine and how to set them up in the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.

Jason Welsh makes a terrain layer setup and show you how to add materials and edit the terrain ... to make an outside environment.. SAVE OFTEN!!!!! when working with terrains in Unreal Engine for Gears of War.

This time Jason Welsh imports a mesh into the Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War and makes a special material for the object. The Material editor is huge in unreal editor so don't get lost!

This Gears of War lesson will be taking a simple mesh from Maya and exporting it into the Unreal engine and applying a collision mesh to it so that it will move when you shoot it.

This tutorial details how you can use a program known as FRAPS to record your video games. The second video in the sequence details questions not addressed in the first video.

This video shows you how to output information from Unreal Tournament 3 into a log using Unreal Script.

This video shows you how to show or hide selected actors (objects) in the Unreal Tournment 3 Editor (UT3).

This tutorial shows you how to rotate a texture in the Unreal Editor.

Learn how to maximize a viewport in the Unreal Editor (UT3).

This video series shows you how to create a movie using the Matinee feature of Unreal Tournament 3 Editor. Subjects covered include scene manager, actions, sub actions, 3ds Max export, character import, scripted sequences, Matinee setup and scripted triggers respectively.

This tutorial shows you how to manually select and move vertices up and down when working with terrain in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor using the paint vertex tool.

This tutorial shows you how to paint the height map of a terrain in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor. The tools shows allow you to change terrain elevation in levels.

This video shows you how to work with local and world coordinate system in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor.

This tutorial shows you how override functions inside UnrealScript for Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3). Specifically, create a customize trigger that plays a sound instead of triggering an event.

Learn how to create a basic terrain with the terrain wizard in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor.

Learn how to add weapon lockers to levels in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor.

This tutorial shows you how to add a weapon to a level in the Unreal Tournament 3 Editor (UT3).

Learn how to use a Fresnel effect in materials in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor (UT3).

This tutorial shows you how to select and extrude the face of a BSP brush in the Unreal Tournament 3 Editor.

This tutorial shows you how to add health pick-ups to levels in your game in Unreal Tournament 3 Editor.