Sexy Walk AO Attachment Point

I've had the standard sexy walk attachment for some time, but yesterday I was fitting my new knife with thigh sheath and the walk detached itself. It must have been attached to my upper left leg, which is where the knife obviously goes. Does anyone know offhand if the walk can be attached anywhere else? I didn't see any documentation for it. Can't put it on the upper right leg because that's where the quick draw holster for my .45 automatic is attached. Thanks. J.

Sure. Attach it anywhere you like. Mine was on my spine for awhile but I needed that spot for a bow. Now I think it's on the right pec.

Great. Thanks for the help. Jackie

Many people get what is called an Animation Overrider, or AO, for short. This is a tiny object that you "wear" (usually it's embedded deep in your thigh where no one can see it) that contains all sorts of animations for walking, standing, sitting, flying, etc. When it is turned on, it will replace all the default animations that SL gives to everyone. You can buy different animations and stuff them in your AO to personalize it.

do a seasrch for the ZHAOII it is a HUD based AO that will fre up the attachment points on your body and works really well. there is even a plugin for mystitools to use it with the tool.


You can put any animation overrides you want for any of the standard animations like sitting walking flying etc. in it as well and it is an easy push button on/off instead off having to type ao on or ao off all the time

Are AO's worn or attached? For example, I might wear a catsuit that goes on as an underwear layer, top and bottom, a pair of 2 piece boots that attach at foot and lower leg each side, the standard sidearms, pistol and knife, each on upper leg. Also have a flight enhancement that I wear as a jewelry bracelet (left forearm) instead of concealed, just because I like the way it looks. How would that all fit in with the AO? When you add in a collar-type piece of jewelry (spine) and the X3 stuff I'm starting to run out of attachment points. Advice? Thanks, Jackie (still a newb!).

AO's are always attached, you cant put scripts into clothing layers on the avatar, only prim attachments

Like Treasure said, there are quite a few attachment spots. Eyeballs, for example, can be used. You can attach the AO to the eyeball, and edit it to move it down to your body cavity where it won't be seen (ewww, that sounds icky).

I do have an Eternity collar that advertises the following functions:

• MONO enabled scripts provide the best performance SL can offer.

Pre-installed Plugins:
Animation Overrider
• Full ZHAO II compatibility.
• Do anything through command that is available to any other ZHAO II enabled product.

• Hug, kiss, and three, original couples animations that are exclusive to Eternity collars.
• Ability to add your own couples animations.

• Ability to show and hide collar.

When I put it on it advertises that it is at 32% memory utilization, so this implies that it can be programmed and may in fact be a full function ZHAO II AO.

Next newbie question: Will I have to find a special version of sexy walk that is ZHAO compatible? Same question for Flight Enhancement? Sorry for the dumb questions...thanks for all the help.

If it is full ZHAO compatible and you wear the collar all the time, load your walk into there. It should have a configuration notecard and hopefully some instructions to tell you how.

Oh, boy...by the time I'm done with this I'll be tripping over my own feet even more badly than I do now! Watch out, everyone!

Does anyone know if the flight enhancers are ZHAO technology, or do they work some other way? Thx, Jackie.

The ZHAO-II is a HUD, at least mine and all the other's I've seen are. They are worn as s HUD position and only attached there, nowhere on the body.



Any walk will work fine in any AO. No special compatibility there.

For flight enhance, you can pick up a free Mysti-Tool HUD. (There is an enhanced version you can pay for as well.) The Mysti has flight enhancement, you can even adjust your flight speed, and lots of other very useful tools. Again, it is an AO, so no body attachments points required.

There's a whole bunch of flight enhancers, made by various folks. They SHOULD be free. The most common one is just a HUD, the "flight feather", now up to version 1.4 I think?

Flight enhancers don't conflict with much other than the occasional teleporter (they can cause you to land in the wrong place).

Flight enhancement is also included in the free version of the Mystitool, a great little multigadget. However, even the free version of Mystitool can be a bit much for a new resident. If you want to try it, pick it up at Mystical Cookie.

If you want just a ZHAO-II on its own (no built-in animations, so you pick out the ones you want to use when you walk, sit, fly, hover, etc..), you can pick up an empty one at Material Squirrel, the author's shop. While you're there, pick up some wings. Hint: big wings are more impressive than small ones if you want to envelop a friend in a big, feathery hug.
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Um....it's a heck of a lot easier to attach AO's to HUD points on the screen rather then the avatar. I don't know why anyone even makes AO's that attach to the body these days.

The AO's I use most often are from SEmotion.....but all the others I have work in a similar fashion. The AO is actually attached at a point in the lower right corner of the screen.....where all you have to do is click on it to turn it on or off.....as well as change positions if so desired. They're great when done this way.....and it totally frees up the avatar body for clothing and accessory attachments.

Also......you can always get an empty feebie AO HUD and put your own animations into it....I believe Zhao is one of these......I know Reel Expression used to offer one and also Digital Dragon......but they're easy enough to find. AO's attached to the body are simply not necessary at ALL.

Here is a slurl to Mystical Cookie's shop, where you can get either the free or the full version of the Mystitool.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avendale/197/241/22

That's very telling...I'm still stuck in the paradigm that functionality has to be worn in some sort of external object I guess there is really no quantifiable benefit from that. since everything really resides in your Inventory.

Before I start modifying stuff, though, any recommendations on how to back up things? I planned on making a Backup folder in Inventory and copy/paste everything I planned to mess with into it. Thx, J.

It depends on whether or not you can. MOST animations are copyable, so that you can do just that; keep a copy in your Inventory, while you stick one into your AO. Some might not be copyable, so you won't be able to back those up. I have a subfolder in my Animations Folder, entitled AO Animations, and I put backups there, so that I don't get them confused with the modelling animations, dance animations, random goofy animations, etc. (For what it's worth, I still use an attachment point AO. I haven't seen the need yet to move it to a HUD.)

Re: "ZHAO - compatible" - as far as I know, ZHAO works with all animations. Animators would be silly to make animations that work with only one type of AO. As a matter of fact, I don't know that you even CAN make an AO-specific animation. Animations are a file type, and I wouldn't imagine that SL allows uploads (and uses) of infinite file types.

The creators of the Eternity collars are great people and probably would help you with the animations to put in the collar. You might find it is preloaded with a sexy walk also. Use your prefix and type ao on. For me it is (.ao on). Without the parenthesis.

What about couple animations? Do you have to have a special separate AO for them? It would be nice to have everything in the same HUD unit but I've never really understood how they work. I bought Mystitool but if I use Meike hug and kiss button it kicks Mystitool off the screen and vice versa. Flight feather kicks out my walk. Somebody gave me a ZHAO with some stands in it. I have a whole lot of those 'play in world' stands and sits, but they clutter up the screen dreadfully. Sometimes I feel as if I am peering at SL thru a telescope.

Couples stuff like hugs and kisses usually have special extra functions scripted in to make you walk up close to the hug-ee (once you get lined up in front of them) or rez balls to sit on for the same purpose. It's a different kind of thing than an AO, but there are several Deluxe AO/hugger/couples HUD things that roll these functions all up in a single package.This just means they are trying to occupy the same slot on your screen. If you right-click look down a bit on the popup menu and you'll see a place where you can choose to attach things to different places, like top, top right, bottom left, etc. Those are raw animations, the same things that are inside AOs and poseballs and animated furniture. Most AOs, including that ZHAO you have, let you add more stuff to them like those extra stands and sits so they'll play as needed. If you feel like playing with this stuff the ZHAO is very good and totally free, you just add the animations. Make sure you have the ZHAO-II (the one with a pair of round buttons, not the one with the square buttons) to start off with the latest and best version. Or go shopping for a fancier one that has a built-in hugger and all that other stuff

Here's an unabashed commercial: I did pop over to the Eternity shop and IM's the owner. Within seconds we were chatting and I got all my questions answered. It is a fully functional ZHAO AO, plus all the other things it does. Now I have to figure out how to program it. In the meantime, my sexy walk is attached to my nose

Welcome to the club...One thing to try is instead of just wearing things you could try to Attach them to unused body parts, so one does not bump other items off (like my knife sheath and sexy walk, which started this whole discussion). I'm new at this, too....don't give up J.

Thanks for the help, Anti and Jackie. I have a clearer picture now.