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avpack AVHUD Graphical Control Interface  

The AVHUD

Heads up displays are great huh? We all love them! Ok, So you may have tried other gadgets out there... and seen that they all want you to do crazy things like type extra long commands, remember weird chat channel numbers or type some weird Greek name just to kill someone...!

"You have to be yanking my chain right?".

Well in a way, yes and no! Some people like the ease of typing a quick command to do something rather than clicking on things. Other people like the opposite, and would rather click an icon on a hud to do the same job. Fortunately for AVpack users, you can do both. The AVpack AVHUD interface is possibly the most user friendly and expandable HUD you will ever use. It is simple, intuitive and tidy in operation. All the options are nicely spaced, and nothing is squashed into a mock, fixed, CD player type window you may have seen on other devices.

Pictures say more than words, and at Space Bums we realized this before creating the AVHUD. If you get tired of the AVHUD, you simply click the top left gadget launcher dial icon, and any icons you have on display will zip away out of sight. You can move buttons around or resize them using your edit window. Press the red record button in the centre of the dial, and the AVHUD buttons will remember their positions for the next time they are displayed.

Your AVHUD can show you lots of cool things too, like who is around you, sim stats, avatar keys, and it even allows you to fine tune the scanners settings. You can adjust the pings for the scanner, switch between displays and your HUD will adjust its data accordingly. AVHUD requires a minimum of 1024x768 screen resolution to display correctly. As there are a lot of gadgets in AVpack, we need all the screen real estate we can get, even if we are using both sides of the AVHUD.

The image below shows the main AVpack gadget launcher dial. Left click this to expand or contract the gadget icons. You can also see the "quick" buttons around the edges. These buttons allow you to quickly access your most used commands without expanding the hud fully. Chat commands are entered into the description field of these coloured buttons. The commands are the same that you would issue to AVpack over your chat interface. For example, if you wanted to rez your Alpha Flyer from the top yellow quick button (1 o'clock), you would enter /rez alpha flyer x6 into the buttons description field under the general tab. for a complete list of other chat commands you may wish to use, click here.

The black area of the dial is the main expand and contract function of the hud. Pressing this expands and contracts the gadget icons in and out of the screen. The glowing eye in the centre is where the red 'record button position' option will display once the hud is in it's expanded mode. This allows you to position individual gadget icons around your screen and save their positions for future use.

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I Don't See My AVHUD

If you are having trouble locating the AVHUD, it may be that your screen size differs from the one we had during testing. Given the graphics power of today's PC's, many people run at several different screen resolution other than the bog standard 800x600. To help you, we have given the AVHUD to you in its expanded state. This will allow you to grab hold of it with your edit window and position it correctly to fit your screen. Try to place the gadget launcher dial in the top left of your screen for the AVHUD to function correctly. You can see an example of this in the images above. If you use desktop sidebars (like I do) like Google Desktop or Windows Vista, you may need to position the AVHUD further right than normal to compensate.

 

AVHUD Icons
 
Name & CMD
Description
launcher

Launcher Dial

&

Quick Buttons

Black: Expand and contract the AVHUD gadget icons.

Note the coloured buttons around the dial. They are your "quick buttons". You can type AVpack chat commands into the description field of these quick buttons to quickly call your favourite gadgets.

All quick buttons apart from the 5 o'clock Scanner eject button are configurable.

The centre of the dial is where the "save button position" icon will show once the gadgets have been expanded. You can position your buttons about your screen, then press the red record button to save the positions for when next displayed.

 

combat

Sub Context Icons

These icons store your multiple category functions. Rather than plaster the whole AVHUD in zillions of icons, the icons are categorised to help you remember where they are and also to consolidate them into a smaller area.

Click to open or close categories with these icons.

  • Attack & Weapons
  • AVbilities
  • Emubbles
  • Poofers
  • Sense
  • Rezzables
  • Info
cycle Flip Feature Icon Click the flip feature icon to cycle the gadgets on the sub category.
targete

Target Avatar

#t

Click this icon to select an avatar target name. Once you have a target set you can direct your poofers towards them, go to them using the GOTO button, or kill them with supported attack modes.
stop

Stop

#

Click to clear any target you may have set. Will also stop poofers or attacks you may have started on your target.
find

Find

/find

Send out a stream of particles to locate your friend or enemy.

Press STOP to stop particle stream.

goto

Go To

/goto

Target an avatar and then press this icon to hop on their head.

Works up to range of sim on avatar target.

Tip: Multiple AVpack users could target each other and head hop one another to build an avatar tower for some extra fun!

iTP_Go

iTPGo

/tp

Click this icon,

Choose a saved teleport location from the menu,

Sit on the teleport beam to warp you or your friend to a destination.

Tip: You add or delete your own teleport location from the menu.

 

camfly

CamFLY

/camfly

Use your alt cam to look at a location,

Press this icon to make your avatar zip to that spot. Range 60m.

Tip: Could be used to bump an enemy or to zip past a wall or trap.

camTP

CamTP

/camtp

Click this icon to rez a CamTP teleport beam.

Sit on the beam then use any of the WarpTo Altitude, Ground or Cam POS icons to warp your avatar around a sim.

Tip: You can fit five of your friends on this beam. You could use the beam for some group sky diving with the WarpTo Altitude icon, as a way to allow you and your friends to enter a building, or to escape a tricky situation. Use your alt camera keys and click the Cam Pos icon to teleport once seated on the beam.

tpto

TP TO

/tpto

After clicking the CamTP icon above, sit on the red beam and then click this icon to teleport you to the avatar you pick from the dialog menu.

This icon will work with any teleport enabled prim like AVchair, Loveseat, CamTP, Shield etc...

objtocam

CamPOS

/campos

Click this icon to position a warp enabled object to your alt camera location.

Warp enabled objects are,

  • CamTP teleport beam
  • Alpha Flyer
  • Skimmer
  • Skimmer XT
  • Love Seat
  • G-Table
  • Shield
  • Stasis Pod

Tip: This will work as far as your camera can see. Use disable camera constraints in Second Life Advanced Menu for some really far camera teleporting.

ground

WarpTo Ground

/ground

While sitting on a warp enabled object, click this icon to take yourself to the ground level below your avatar.
WarpToAlt

WarpTo Altitude

/5 alt number

Click the box on this icon to teleport your warp enabled object to your given altitude.

Tip:

  • Left side of icon changes altitude value in hundreds, right side of icon changes in units.
  • Click the blue sky on the icon to increase altitude limit.
  • Click green grass part of icon to lower altitude limit.
  • Click box to warp a prim to the altitude.

 

slurl

SLurl

/slurl

Click this icon to record your current avatar position as a SLurl

Tip: Using SLurls could be a handy way to bookmark your visited locations without clogging up your inventory with landmark locations. You can copy and paste SLurls into your own web pages to allow residents on your web site to find your location.

blog

Blog

/blog

Click this icon to open a web browser to the official Second Life blog page. This can be handy to keep up to date with the latest news and happenings at Linden Labs.
note

Note

/note

Click this icon to open a new note card for you to record your text in.

Tip: It's a note card! When are these not handy! ;-)

radio

Radio

/r

Clicking this icon will open your radio station chooser.

Tip: You can edit and add your own radio stations inside the AVpack. They are listed inside the #RadioStations note card. If you delete this note card from AVpack, it will try to use a pre configured note card with our server default radio stations listed.

avhudhelp

AVHUDHelp

/web

Probably the most important icon on the AVHUD.

Click this to learn the ways of the AVpack Master.

Tip: After pressing this icon it will flip around to show you the icon below.

hudtv

HUDTV

/hudtv

(for server)

Pressing this icon will ask any HUDTV server box on your land for the lands media texture to be mapped to your AVHUD. This will allow you to watch video content on your AVHUD.

For full details of this feature see the bottom of this page.

help_nav AVHUDHelp Nav

Click these icons to navigate through the AVHUDHelper screens.

Clicking on the corresponding screen will open your web browser to that AVpack web guide.

close Close Click this to close the HUDTV or AVHELPER screen.
     
avhud HUDTV  

How To Watch TV On Your AVHUD

With HUDTV, your AVpack wearing visitors and yourself can watch any playing parcel video on the AVHUD. How does this differ from standing on someone's land and watching TV on a prim on a wall? Well, builders know how boring it can be without any tunes to relax to, while they get to work on their latest build. Club owners know that every other club owner out there probably plays the same tunes they do. What else can they provide to entertain their clubbers? Mall owners spend all day in Photoshop making their advertisements and marketing try to stick out more than the next guy. But what if you could present your products directly onto a users screen in full motion rather than a poster?

With your AVHUD and the HUDTV box feature, any land owner can allow AVpack wearing visitors to view the lands video media right on their own screen. Place a HUDTV box near your lands teleport in location. Residents will recognize this and they can now choose to watch the lands video content right on their HUD while still being able to navigate their avatar around your land.

This could open up exciting possibilities for educational sims that wish to provide portable video solutions for the land. Club owners could allow clubbers to look at music videos and still be able dance about the club freely having fun. Mall owners could present their latest products with all the “wow factor” that video advertisements can provide while shoppers shop. And the best part is that any AVpack user can allow visitors to view their lands video right on their HUD.

hudtv_action

How To

Simply type /hudtv to rez out the HUDTV server box. You will only need one server per sim. Any residents wishing to view your lands media would simply,

  1. Stand on your land somewhere
  2. Open their AVHUD viewer screen by pressing on the "?" icon.
  3. When the viewer screen opens they select the HUDTV icon from the AVHUD.
  4. Press play on their video media controls.

You MUST have a HUDTV server box out on your land for this feature to function. Group land owners must deed the HUDTV server to the group. Your land media texture is mapped to the visitors AVHUD and allows them to watch telly while they are on your land. This can be an effective way to add entertainment to your land and give residents information on products or services and still allow them to be mobile on your land. It works while residents remain on video media enabled parcels only. It will requires a full permission (MOD,COPY,TRANSFER) land media texture to be set on the land prior to use. To hide your HUDTV from your display simply touch the X icon on the AVHUD. You will need Apple QuickTime 7.5 needs to be installed prior to use.

Photoshare & Posters

As well as being able to display video on your AVHUD, you can also view images too. This is the photoshare feature of the AVHUD and it can be a great way to keep clutter away from your inventory if you have friends that like to drop images on you all the time. You may have a photo of yourself that you would rather not give out. A real life photo for example. With AVHUD and Photoshare you can still show your buddies your images without giving them the files.

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How to Photoshare

  1. Open your AVHUD viewer screen by clicking on the "?" icon.
  2. Drag and drop a photo from your inventory onto the viewer screen (not onto your AVHUD icons).
  3. The image is then sent to nearby AVHUD users with active open viewer screens.
  4. If your friends repeat this process you will see their images on your AVHUD viewer screen.

photoshare

How To Create Posters

Someone wants to see what you look like in RL, but you don't want to give them your photo file for whatever your reason. Perhaps it's someone you just met?.. Rather than struggle to create a box to put your photo on, simply follow these simple steps.

  1. Type /poster
  2. Drag a photo from your inventory onto the poster prim or onto your AVHUD viewer screen.
  3. If your friends own an AVHUD, they can also show you images on the poster prim by dropping photos onto their AVHUD viewer screen. (v64 AVHUD needed for this feature.)
  4. You can now view images together safely on the poster prim without clogging each others inventory with files.
  5. Poster owners can left click the poster prim to delete the script inside so no more images can be placed onto the prim.

 

 

 


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