ZHAO II Partially working

I've been working on the ZHAO-II for several days and have it mostly working. Much of that time, of course, was spent sorting through hundreds of amims and poses from freebie boxes. The walks are functioning, as are the jumping, flying and related animations and several others. However, the standing and dancing anims aren't functioning with, apparently, two different issues.

When I click 'Next Stand', the dialog tells me, 'ZHAO-II: No stand animations configured.'

When I try to load my custom notecard, it gets to the 2 lines of dances (5 dances each line); the dialog tells me, 'ZHAO-II: Could not recognize token on line 23:' and lists the dances on that line. They are all correctly spelled, including case.

Here is my card:

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[ Standing ]Arms Crossed|waiting|at_rest|standing_02|what
[ Walking ]Walk: Power|Walk: Power Slow|Strut|Simple Walk
[ Sitting ]sitting chair m06|sit crossed knee|sitting chair m05|sitting chair m08|sitting chair m09
[ Sitting On Ground ]meditation|nadu|ponder|portrait|sexy_pose_09|sitting ground m05
[ Crouching ]crouch
[ Crouch Walking ]Walk: Sneak Slow
[ Landing ]landing 1
[ Standing Up ]
[ Falling ]
[ Flying Down ]diving
[ Flying Up ]lift_off
[ Flying ]cruise
[ Flying Slow ]glide_1
[ Hovering ]glide_2
[ Jumping ]long-jump
[ Pre Jumping ]crouch
[ Running ]
[ Turning Right ]
[ Turning Left ]
[ Floating ]
[ Swimming Forward ]
[ Swimming Up ]
[ Swimming Down ]
[ Dancing ]d1|kickdance_loop|Club Dance 1|Club Dance 2|Club Dance 3
[ Dancing ]getdown (loop)|Rave|tango-lead|tango-follow|rockdanefix(looped)

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So, what is the unrecognized token on line 23 and how do I configure the stand anims? I could sure use some help if you know what I've done wrong or need to do yet.

Kind regards,

Mally

I gave up on the ZHAO HUD because I found it clunky, and it seemed to malfunction a lot. I see that the ZHAO HUD creator has changed the way it works; instead of several standing animation sections, it would appear there is now one that you enter each animation in separated by the |. I haven't read the ZHAO card because I don't have version ll.

I did send you another freebie blank animation overrider that I find to be extremely reliable. It is called Wet Ikon Anim Override One.8 (Amped). It has a notecard in it, and configures similarly to ZHAO, but it is more reliable. You can reset it by typing /ao reset in open chat; this causes the Wet Ikon Anim Override One.8 (Amped) to reload the animations within the notecard. The problem I had with ZHAO was that I had to start all over again with a new HUD when I wanted to add a new animation.

Well, first of all, I'm new at this so please bear that in mind. Second of all, after spending a lot of Lindens buying AO's that had public domain scripts I got REALLY frosted that I was buying something that could be done for free by a little effort on my part.

I recently got ZHAO II functioning reasonably well, BUT I was having a couple of problems. I think I was loading too much into memory for one. You might try dropping off most of your sit animations for now until you get it running. The other thing I was completely clueless on that fixed some major crashing I was having was recompiling and reseting via the debug menu, you might want to try that. Then with ZHAO II you have to load the HUD, wait for the default notecard to load, then you load the specific gender notecard from the menu "load" button. That sounds like it would fix your problem. Also, the file names are picky about whether it's upper or lower case. I'm not sure which dance line is #23, but it might not like ( ) characters either.

Myself, I like ZHAO because I can click it off when I want to dance.

My guess would be the [ Dancing ] token is the issue. The notecard I recieved with my ZHAO II does not have that line, nor do I understand at all what it would be overriding. There are huds that are an AO and a dance machine put together, but as far as I know it's not a line that's recognized by the ZHAO II.

Actually.. I just added a line for [ Dancing ] on a notecard that usually works and it wouldn't take it. If there is an error in reading the notecard, the rest of the correct lines won't work either. I suggest deleting the 2 dancing lines and see if that'll work.




erm. One of the main differences between the ZHAO and the wet icon is that instead of having multiple AO devices, you can have up to 12 full sets in the ZHAO. To add an animation you throw it into the contents, edit the notecard, load the notecard again. Another large difference is that the Wet Icon listens to the chat channel, which is laggy.

I have the [ Dancing ] lines working fine, you are limited to 11 dances, however. And you have to toggle the hud off to perform the dance animations. It's kind of counterintuitive, but think of it as a walk AO that serves as a dance hud when you turn it off.

EDIT: are you editing the default, or the gender card? I've edited the gender card ONLY, the default card has nothing on it other than the [xxx] lines.

The [Dancing] is not ins the standard ZHAO II. However a resident made a custom version of the ZHAO II called the HJAO (smirks), which includes dancing among other things. I suspect this is what the OP actually has.

Oh, yeah I forgot about that. That's what I have too.

Typically when you buy AO sets what you are paying for is the animations, not the scripts. While there will be some out there that are packaging freebie anims, most of us spend quite a long time animating, making sure bits don't go into other bits during the transitions and then setting up the device.

I used to not sell mine preloaded into a device because I thought it was cheeky and I know the creators of them end up getting bombarded with IMs when it should be directed to the animators.

Saddly though, I got so many people calling me lazy and a number of other nasty things in IMs about it. Even if the zhao (for free) was in the same room, notecards filled out, and step by step instructions with more than one person to contact if help was needed was included in the folder with the animations.

It sounds like you took a notecard from Huney Jewell's modified ZHAO-II (called HJAO), and put that in a regular ZHAO-II. That's why you got the error message. ZHAO-II knows how to override walks, stands, etc. It doesn't know anything about overriding dances. So when it saw "[ Dancing ]" in the notecard, that wasn't one of the animation types it recognized, and it didn't know what to do with it. The HJAO has the dance functionality, so it will understand the "[ Dancing ]" line.

I'm assuming you want the dance functionality. Your best bet would be to use Huney Jewell's HJAO, which is what that notecard is from. If you check my profile in-world, you'll see a landmark to my store, you can pick up Huney's version there as well.

aha.

If the OP does have the HJAO instead, then delete the ones with the () in the name and see if that works. If it loads fine, you usually can edit the name of the animation and delete the (loop/ed) and add them back in to the notecard.

The thought is appreciated

I don't mind animators selling pre-packaged AOs. Everyone's doing it, and it is a more complete product and easier to purchase. My request - if possible, include a notecard saying "Contact me, don't contact the creator of the AO". And set the notecard up correctly There are some animation sellers who sell animations packaged into an AO, and the AO is configured wrong, so it spits out error messages as soon as you buy it and wear it. And I have to help those buyers out, because they see my name as the AO creator, and come to me and ask for their money back. And then I have to go through the whole "No, I make a free AO, you paid for the animations, not the scripts" explanation. Usually multiple times a day.



*You're* lazy for not pre-loading an AO? That's awesome

Oh my. Just thinking on-the-fly here, but I'll bet most of them get your name as creator of the HUD *prim*, not the scripts inside... so if the prims were created by a script, using as "raw material" a prim created by the animator, ZHAO could be delivered as pure scripts (or scripts in a HUD-builder prim), with the HUD prims themselves "created" by the animators. It's a little tricky because that animator-created "raw prim" would have to get llSetRemoteScriptAccessPin called in it first, so the actual AO scripts could get copied in (and cleared by script later, in the actual HUD prims). But most animators are pretty sophisticated, I think, and can probably follow the several steps that would be needed. Might dramatically reduce the number of end-user support requests.

I upgraded my ZHAO to the ZHAO II a couple days ago, switched out all my anims, rewrote the notecard, even threw in extra anims and another notecard. I really love the new menu feature, instead of having to 'hide' the rest of the HUD all the time. Just hit the button and I can do basically anything that you would expect to do with an AO, and I must say, I absolutely love it! Bravo, Ziggy, Bravo!

One in particular I paid 700L for had nothing but the free animations you can pick up anywhere, so nothing was put into the animation other than going to Freebie Wharehouse and picking up a crate of animations and loading it into an object, sticking Franimation inside and offering it up for sale.

Don't get me wrong, if you have some nice animations, I'll pay for them.

Absolutely. I'd also say, most newcomers (and maybe some not-so-newcomers) don't really understand that the AO is a container, and is a different 'creation' from the animations inside it.



After my experience with ZHAO-I, I *very* seriously considered this (or some variant) for ZHAO-II. Instead, I settled for better documentation on my part, a Help button on the HUD that gives them a notecard that explains this, and... hope If things stay as bad with ZHAO-II, I'll do this for ZHAO-III. If/when I work on that... took me a few years to get to this update

Ziggy, I think it really great that you and Huney are working together like that. That's where I got mine.