Lesson 2: Flying so Very High
One of the first things you learn to do in Second Life is to fly. The easiest ways to fly are to hit [PgUp] to fly/jump and [PgDn] to land/crouch. Flying is fun and helps you quickly get from point a to point b. However, you will quickly notice some limitations to flight: you cannot fly above 200 meters.
Shops, events, and sometimes even people's houses are often found above the 200 m ceiling. How do you get there?
The answer is simple if you know what a Flight Feather is. It is an object that is scripted to allow you to fly to extreme heights. I believe that after 700 m of vertical flight, the simulators (the machines that produce the 3D visual based on the computer code) start freaking out and things become rendered in interesting ways, but below this threshold, all is good. That means that you have 500 m of vertical space that is not accounted for in the initial ceiling.
Once you have a flight feather, right click on it in your inventory and click "Wear". Ta da! All done.
To get a flight feather, you have multiple options. I am starting from cheapest and going to most expensive:
Flight Feather from Bliss Gardens
#1 - Visit Bliss Gardens by clicking on this link. This will take you directly to Bliss Gardens. Once there you will be facing a bunch of signs. Off to the left of the signs is yet another sign informing you of a Sim Barrier crossing. While that is fun and informative, the most important thing is the part where it tells you to click to get a free flight feather. "Touch" the sign to get yourself a free flight feather!
#2 - Buy from the vendor on my land. Click this link to visit my land (no, this is not a promotion for what I am selling, but if you'd like to look at the free presentation on geisha you are more than welcome). Locate the Geisha presentation. To the left of it, against the wall, is what looks like a picture that has text hovering over it announcing "JL's Educational Utilities". If you "Touch" the screen, it will change to a new item for sale. If you Right Click and select "Pay", you can buy (and will be given) the item. Because I do not know what item was last displayed (each user can leave it on a different screen), I cannot tell you how many times you are going to need to touch the display, but eventually you will reach a screen that has hover text announcing that it is a Flight Feather. "Pay" the vendor the L$ 0 that it asks and it will give you the flight feather. It is the same as that from Bliss Gardens.
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Shops, events, and sometimes even people's houses are often found above the 200 m ceiling. How do you get there?
The answer is simple if you know what a Flight Feather is. It is an object that is scripted to allow you to fly to extreme heights. I believe that after 700 m of vertical flight, the simulators (the machines that produce the 3D visual based on the computer code) start freaking out and things become rendered in interesting ways, but below this threshold, all is good. That means that you have 500 m of vertical space that is not accounted for in the initial ceiling.
Once you have a flight feather, right click on it in your inventory and click "Wear". Ta da! All done.
To get a flight feather, you have multiple options. I am starting from cheapest and going to most expensive:
Flight Feather from Bliss Gardens
#1 - Visit Bliss Gardens by clicking on this link. This will take you directly to Bliss Gardens. Once there you will be facing a bunch of signs. Off to the left of the signs is yet another sign informing you of a Sim Barrier crossing. While that is fun and informative, the most important thing is the part where it tells you to click to get a free flight feather. "Touch" the sign to get yourself a free flight feather!
#2 - Buy from the vendor on my land. Click this link to visit my land (no, this is not a promotion for what I am selling, but if you'd like to look at the free presentation on geisha you are more than welcome). Locate the Geisha presentation. To the left of it, against the wall, is what looks like a picture that has text hovering over it announcing "JL's Educational Utilities". If you "Touch" the screen, it will change to a new item for sale. If you Right Click and select "Pay", you can buy (and will be given) the item. Because I do not know what item was last displayed (each user can leave it on a different screen), I cannot tell you how many times you are going to need to touch the display, but eventually you will reach a screen that has hover text announcing that it is a Flight Feather. "Pay" the vendor the L$ 0 that it asks and it will give you the flight feather. It is the same as that from Bliss Gardens.Continued ...
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