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mark 'yer calendars! unique event in SL > DFM RTV INT and AUTONOMOUS MEDIA PLAYGROUND present: 4-HOUR TRIBUTE to THE RESIDENTS Celebrating the music & art of THE RESIDENTS with a live radio broadcast & simultaneous party in virtual reality at DFM’s own RESONANCE SIM featuring DJ sets, visuals, animated puppets and live video streaming some of The Residents’ films and video shorts... Saturday, January 19th from 11:00am - 3:00pm SLT location: RESONANCE (Concert Hall) full program: 11am-3:00pm US PST / 19.00-23.00 GMT / 20.00-0.00 CET schedule: http://ubuibi.org/DFM_RES_schedule.html

I have gotten back into Second Life after nearly a ten year absence. I am interested in doing Machinima of my music I have recorded and would like to have a number of Non Player Characters that I control with animations like dancing in the videos. I am left somewhat confused about how to go about this after having read some things on the internet about SL:bots, Scripted Agents, etc. Is there a good resource describing in detail how to do this? I need to understand the steps to be able to do this. Something like this: Create an Account Mark the Account as Scripted Agent Start a Client to Control the Scripted Agent Animate the Characters I have logged in with two clients controlling two characters before but that seems like a lot of wasted PC resources since I am only playing my main character. The main questions I have are: Can I run a scripted agent avatar without having a running SL Viewer on my desktop for each NPC I set up? Is there a lightweight client that could launch them instead of the Viewer Do I need to run a client at all? I have read about smartbots and the services, but, since I am just using these NPCs for shooting the videos and not as chat bots or greeters it seems an overkill Also I have a pretty powerful PC and a lot of bandwidth so paying for this type of service seems like just spending money Is there any software I can buy or get for free that will do what I want to do? Thanks for reading this.