Content creation in Second Life is done in a way that doesn't really lend itself to immersion or roleplay. Baking a cake in Blender or pulling it fully-formed out of your inventory doesn't really have the same impact that combining ingredients to produce it would. NWN sponsoring partner Shuggles' Product Maker script is a pretty simple way to do something that might otherwise seem a little impossible unless you have a head for scripting things yourself. With it, you can recreate a crafting system of sorts in SL; gather your ingredients, combine them, and voila. Maybe you've just forged a piece of armor, brewed a potion -- whatever you've set the script up for.
I can think of dozens of items I've picked up over the years meant to help imitate the actions of making something, but where that action never bears fruit. We all probably have something like that, maybe an animated kitchen set or even an anvil or a sewing machine. While the Product Maker script obviously can't create items from ingredients alone, it's still one step closer to imitating reality. Better to get that finished cake from the oven than from your inventory, right? The Product Maker is also full-permissions, meaning that if you're the one making that kitchen set you can easily make it that much more useful to your customers.
You can check out the Product Maker for yourself on the Second Life Marketplace, or visit Shuggles in-world (teleport here) to check it out for yourself.
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