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[greyghoul]

I have recently joined and am slowly finding my way round SL. I have just bought "SL for Dummies" but it's not arrived yet. I'm wondering if anyone can answer a question which so far I've been unable to find the answer to in the tutorials.

In some areas of SL there are coloured balls with text above them. Sometimes the text appears without a ball, with instructions like "kiss her 4-F" or whatever. What are these for? How do I obey these instructions? Why when I click on one of these objects does a coloured framework appear?

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

greyghoul.

[Shockwave Yareach]

These are Poseballs.  They are how we in SL pose the avatars in pairs or singly in a setting.  Poseballs can be balls, stools, chairs, couches, almost anything. 

The text you saw above that one is which pose it is set to.  In this case the pose Kiss Her 4 F which is the fourth variation of Kissing Her, but the Female avatar's pose.

To use them, right click on teh pose ball and select "Sit here" or whatever else the list shows you for it, like "kiss" or "relax" or what have you.

[bee Baroque]

welcome to sl.

your question should go in the "getting started" section http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Getting-Started/qa-p/sla_getting_started as this section is "forums, blogs, answers and knowledge feedback". if you can't move it yourself i am sure a mod can do it for you.

other than that - shockwave gave a good answer.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

Be careful with 'SL for dummies' - it is considerably out of date.  Most of the information should be relevant but almost all the user-interface details (click 'x' to do 'y') will probably make no sense whatsoever.

The best way to learn SL is to go to one of the organisations that help new residents (NCI, The Shelter, Caledon Oxbridge, etc, and definitely NOT any of the Linden Labs areas) and then explore.

[Shockwave Yareach]

Not to mention almost every destination in that book (remember Taco?) does not exist anymore.  Which says volumes about how LL has run its flagship the past few years.

[Thinkerer Melville]

 

This web site has a lot of information:

Hobo Kit on the Web

Thnkerer

[PeterCanessa Oh]

Good point on the first one there Shock - destinations all gone.

Not sure I can blame LL for that though.  Imagine if you bought an internet-guide to new businesses that was 3 years out of date - how many would still exist at the same domain?  SL companies and destinations come and go even faster because there's (usually) no RL dependency on it, unlike internet companies.

[greyghoul]

I would like to thank all of you for your very useful advice.

 

greyghoul.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Stop by my place some time and I'll show you what those pose balls do

 

 

(BTW, I am only teasing.  But I think you knew that already)

[greyghoul]

On the contrary, I shall be heading over to your place early tonight, balls at the ready.

PS I hope you're a lesbian  :0 )

[Luc Starsider]

When you're finished at Rhonda's place, and the poseballs are put away, you could always look into joining a group like NCI (New Citizens inc). They provide a lot of help to new users both through group chat (where also other new users participate), and through classes. Search for NCI in world, and you should find the/a group to join.

- Luc -

[greyghoul]

Thanks a lot, Luc.