Expressing Yourself Visually: Animating Your Avatar

Now that you’ve learned how to type to communicate, you can begin to add some pizazz and motion to your avatar. Before 3D virtual worlds, chat was text only, so various ways were invented to express more emotion and action, such as emoticons like the classic smiley :-). SL gives you many tools to animate your avatar to express emotions and actions while chatting.

The following sections cover the various ways you can augment your chat to be more expressive.