Description
Have your links to Second Life© locations, groups, and profiles open in SL from your website.
This plugin is intended as an aid for websites which are created and managed by Second Life© residents. There are many websites like this, and often these community owners run into confusion on how to link their website content (text, images, etc) to the relevant content inside the Second Life© virtual world.
How to use
Simply activate plugin to use. Your published website links to maps.secondlife.com plus world.secondlife.com will automatically open inside of your Second Life© viewer on click.
Example
When you open a profile window in Second Life, you can find the user’s key and also “copy URI”. You will then get something like this:
secondlife:///app/agent/63c3809f-6fe2-4151-aa8d-ab3ce169f01a/about
Take the key such as 63c3809f-6fe2-4151-aa8d-ab3ce169f01a and put it in this format instead to make a link to it from the web:
https://world.secondlife.com/resident/63c3809f-6fe2-4151-aa8d-ab3ce169f01a
Example URL to a location within Second Life:
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pisces/213/132/23
Example URL to a group within Second Life:
https://world.secondlife.com/group/d7a76a13-68d0-553f-76b3-851a9a07919f
You still need to make sure these links are set up correctly on your website. In the future this plugin may be released with helper tools to create these links properly, but this is not yet a feature.
FAQ
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How do I get a Second Life© viewer?
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How do I properly talk about Second Life© on my website?
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Does this work for other virtual worlds?
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No.
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Contributors & Developers
“Open Links in SL” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
0.8
- Changed script to allow standard URL get requests, such as
?lang=at the end of the URL. - Added encoding to the resulting link for extra security.
0.7
- Minor changes to plugin info pages.
0.6
- Working release in beta.
- Tested on a few SL community-run websites.