NMC Campus Observer

Tip: Pick Your Login Location

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 20, 2006 11:36am

As part of our NMC Campus public service, we hope to start writing some more tips and things useful to SL users. If you’d like to help out as a writer for the Observer, contact me, or you can add them directly to our Campus Guide Tips and Tricks (a wiki).

In one of the Second Life client updates a few weeks back, they added an option to your preferences to help you have some flexibility where you land when you re-enter SL. Typically, you will rez (enter) at the location you last left Second Life. That’s fine, but f you know you want to quickly go to a specific place that was perhaps not the dance club you were at late the night before, this tip may help.

In your SL, client, select Preferences from the Edit menu. Then click the General tab. This new feature is at the top - click the check box labeled Show Start Location on Login Screen:

That’s it! Now quit Second Life and then start it again. You will see a new menu in the lower left of the main login screen that now offers you a choice where you will land when you enter:

You can go to where you were before (My Last Location), your home (My Home, whatever is set in your application as a “home”, if you have not done so, go to the place where you want home to be, and select Set This Location to Home from the World menu), or you can enter the Region Name where you would like to go, such as InfoIsland, EduIsland, Reuters, etc.

Use this if you want a little more control where you land! (Fortunately, there is no “random” option, which could be scary)

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