The RFL Beta Mermaid Movement Override

Kamiliah Hauptman of Caledonia has been working on an improved AO for mermaid (and merman) avatars. Upgrades in the SL viewer resulted in some existing mermaid AOs acting quite buggy, she told me, and this one is Havok 4 friendly.
Rather than sell them for a profit, she has instead decided to send all the proceeds to Relay for Life. One can find a RFL vendor near the teleport entry of the Caledon Lionsgate sim, Isle of the Children of Moreau, of (105, 156, 130), at (74, 105, 21).
The AO comes with a small Heads Up Display that is set to appear in the upper left of the screen when worn. Although one can use it to rise or sink, it is most useful for changing the speed your avatar can go. One can set it to a lazy crawl, or super-fast. The fastest speeds will probably be too hard for most to control, though. With the "Freestyle" AO, one can fly anywhere. With the regular, one is confined to the water, though will be able make some great leaps out of the water.

Kamiliah had more to say in the notecard that came with the AO:
'I was planning on more testing of this thing before launch, but this moment just can't be beat and here's a chance to do some Relay For Life good too. Any input welcome. Send notecards to Kamilah Hauptmann.
Over the last month I've been toying with a mermaid animation and control override. The bugs have been mostly swatted, at least the ones I've found so far, and I usually give it a couple weeks of no bugs found with my own use and the input of a few interested parties. (And I was sorta waiting for Mono.)
If it goes over well I can adapt it with relative ease to more mundane use.'

-Swimming like a mermaid.
-Water level control. (Defaults to standard in sim water level.)
Toggle switch, turning it on sets your current vertical position as the new water level.
Toggle the "Set" button.
-Leaping from water and splashing back down.
-Splash particles.
-Turning animations while hovering or on ground.
-Animations for forward/up or forward/down swimming.
-Backwards swim.
-Sideways and diagonal movement. (Use Shift + Arrow.)
-Land movement animations with transition between land and water.
-Speed controls, seven settings. From very slow to very difficult to control at the best of times.
-Vaulting from dry land. (It's a pretty good leap, but do point at water or eat dirt.)
-Four hovers, three ground lays.
-On/off switch.
-Hide/Show HUD.
-Autosurface up to about shoulder height.
-Autosink. (Splat if high up.)
There is a Freestyle HUD and Spray that has no water level checks. It treats the whole world as underwater.

So if you are a swimmer this would be a great advantage - check it out for yourself.

By Bixyl Shuftan

HRN Teleport HUD

Watch this video tutorial (poor quality under construction). Click here.

Save yourself thousands of unnecessary clicks with this gadget.

The HRN Teleport HUD is a Second Life gadget that will save any locations in Second Life in a quick and simple manner. It can share the saved locations with a friend list by sending them an slurl by instant message of every location saved, and may give saved locations to avatars in a 90 meter range of the owner.

The color of the HRN Teleport HUD can be changed to white, grey and black, and the transparency level can be changed to make it less visible
The owner of the HRN Teleport HUD may sell the HUD, and earn 33% of the current value of the HUD, automatically paid once sale is made.
The HRN Teleport HUD comes equipped with an automatic update script that may be activated in the HUD's menus and will deliver the most recent version of this product. Updates are free of charge

The HUD menus, buttons and help note cards are available in:
- Chinese
- Deutsch
- English
- French
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Spanish

"HRN Games & Gadgets Customer Support"
* There are many ways to receive support:
1 - Join the "HRN Customer Support" group.2 - IM Rhea Radford or Hilton Harpoon always happy to provide support.3 - Email HRN Games & Gadgets hrn.secondlife (at) googlemail.com

HRN would like to give special thanks to the following residents who helped create this device:
- Abba Thiebaud
- Bobden Westland
- Langel Sands
- Sora Ashbourne
- EuiJun Naglo
Thank you for your valuable help.

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A revolution in silk........

As an ex-dancer when I heard about these silks I pricked up my ears, of course I have seen and heard of scripted clothes that the wearer can remove - strip, piece by piece, so what is different about these? I asked the creator Sneakina Piek -

Sneakina Piek 'You simply click on each piece of silk to wear.....rez the tip jar in world......set the tip jar to the amount you want to allow others to remove each item for and you are ready for fun and profit'

Sneakina Piek 'The silks and tip jar work together'

Dana: How did you come up with the idea?

Sneakina Piek: I think the patrons would like to have that control, to remove the clothes for you

You: So whoever is tipping chooses which silks come off?

Sneakina Piek: Yes, after the tip.....click on on a piece .....to remove it from the dancer, each silk I have made so far comes with 4 pieces - but couples can have fun as well.....playing tip the dancer......just set the jar to $1

Sneakina has 8 styles available at the moment and as you can see from the images above they not only work they are beautiful in themselves.

I asked an old friend to try them out, just to see how they worked in a club situation, Penelope Lorenz had this to say about them:

"Well the outfit is great...beautiful...and the strip worked!!! yes... fast enough...really good, you need to put the jar on floor so you need to be allowed to do this... but the item is good"

Sneakina had helped with the scripting from Lois Laughton, 'she taught me so much about scripting'

This Tip To Strip idea has a lot of appeal especially I think in the club market - no more messing about with rules for when the dancers remove an item, beautiful flowing flexi silk most dancers would be proud to wear! A revolution in the silks market - and maybe a little fun for the couple at home :)

Try them out yourself they can be bought from Sneakina's stall

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baileya/90/67/22

or of course send her an IM in world. I don't think you will regret it Penny is loving them!

Dana