LockGuard V2 3000 L Contest

Starting from September 1st, 2006 until September 30th, 2006 the Dictatorshop will be running a contest to help foster the spirit of innovation and creativity from the LockGuard community......

Between these two dates, build and construct any LockGuard V2 object or device, whether it be furniture, decorative, or just odd and interesting, and have a shot at a 3000 L prize.

The Rules:

** All entries must be submitted between September 1, 2006 - September 30, 2006.

** All entries must be 20 prims or under.

** All entries must use at least one LockGuard V2 Script (unmodified but modifiable).

** All entries remain property of their respective creators.

** Entries can be devices, furniture, attachments, or anything you can conjure.

** Entries can be submitted as no copy but must be modifiable (to validate whether or not the LG V2 script is present and unmodified).

** Multiple entries are allowed, so build to your heart's content.

** All entrants must join the LockGuard System group for contest updates!
(you're free to unjoin after the contest)

** Winner takes all. One prize. 3000 L.

** Anyone can enter!

Five finalists will be selected by a panel of judges who will base their decision on the following criteria:

Usability..... Is it something people would use?
Marketability..... Would people buy it?
Creativity..... Is it original? Creative? Unique?
Quality...... Does it look good? Does it work flawlessly? Is it lag free?

From there, a winner will be chosen from the five finalists based on the votes of all participants. Why would they vote? Those who involve themselves in the final vote have a chance to win a 500 L prize just for voting! Once all votes are taken, a random winner will be chosen for the vote prize.

To pick up your copy of the LockGuard V2 Script (related files and easy-to-follow tutorials), visit the Dictatorshop in Knieff @ http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/knieff/222/233/169 or at the Shop vendor in the Dragon's Maw Mall, House of X, or Latexia.

If the contest has a high turn out, I may consider making it a monthly event.

Good luck, and most of all..... have fun!

Is Lockguard anything like Scotchguard?

LockGuard is a particle chain/rope generation library.

It can be used from anything from fences to rigging on ships to b&d furniture.

i can paticipate?

edit: how the hell will you give points for lag free ness considering only your unmodified scripts must be used? btw it makes the contest of no interest for scripters

LockMeister is already the standard... why LockGuard ? (more work to be "compatible" with every protocol, more script, more lag, ... bleh ...)

Of course you can participate, that would definitely raise the bar for the competition given the outstanding quality of your builds.

The only script which is unmodified is the V2 Script itself. You can add, modify any other script you want..... because most people are going to use other scripts in their projects. LockGuard does nothing by itself. It's what people combine it with that creates the product. It's the end product that must be (well, I should have said) low-lag.

Prim-based restraints are "the standard", and what 99% of all b&d furniture in Second Life are using. Only a *very* small minority of devices use particle chains.

But again, LockGuard is not a protocol. It is a complete chain, rope, and particle link system, therein lies the difference. LG has the ability to generate links from multiple sources in a single command line, in groups or patterns, which gives it an interesting ability to be used for a squillion things.

To me, this is not a b&d furniture contest.

While I'm sure a lot of the entries will be, I want to see more than bondage furniture in the contest. While I'm not going to judge anyone's work myself, I want to see particle based chandeliers and just things I would never have thought of it being used for.

I'd like to see something which makes me go, "Wow! I would have never imagined that!"

the goal of a protocol is usually to give as much flexibility as possible, hence why it is a protocol and not a ready to use solution.

I know what you try to do Lilliani and i won't enter your game

Lillani

Good luck with the competition.

It's good to see people offering incentive for creativity and why not insist one of your products is used, it's effectively sponsorhip.

I'm not sure why the negativity to your competition, but maybe there is a political agenda I don't know about.

As a casual observer, I think it's a great idea to incentivise people to be creative.

All the best

You know that this competition is really limiting when the restriction says, that you >must not< change the Lockguard-Script itself? Cause this will restrict ALL the internal LockGuard-communication of the entries to a (laggy) chatchannel-communications - there is no linked-message-handler inside the open source Lockguard-Script you want us to use. :-/ This will result in ... well ... a lower quality cause there will be really unneeded listeners inside the entries.

Nevermind, I guess I'll participate too - cause just the LockGuard script itself has to be open Source!


VT,
working with Lockmeister since 6/06

Since the contest has not started yet, so to address a couple of concerns, a few amendments won't hurt. You can change listen to linked listen and disable the listener and use linked messages, you can also change the nPrivateProject to true, so you can change channels or use LockGuard's fire-and-forget features. But, on the whole, as long as the core script isn't changed. I just want to keep the core intact for the sake of the contest.

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And now, Kyrah, the only game I'm playing is promoting a product I've created, but despite what should be better judgement.... I am going to play yours, so ante up, here comes the deal.....

First, let's cover a little history and try to make you feel less burdened about why or how LockGuard came into existence, shall we?

Originally, when I wanted a particle chain system I looked at Lockmeister. But, due to your lack of response, the lack of support available on the forums, the lack of documentation which was in the Wiki at the time, and the closed nature of every Lockmeister developer back then..... well, support was a little less than available at that time. But, when I finally found out how the Lockmeister system actually worked, I discovered it was *not* a particle chain system. Lockmeister was not what I wanted. And further more, no configurable particle chain system existed in Second Life that I could find. I didn't want a key passer. I wanted something which would say, "Hey you, send a chain here!" and do it in a snap in the simplest possible method. So, I went to work and created what I wanted, a particle chain system.... LockGuard. Lock, referring to chains and locks. Guard, referring to the fact the script protected the underlying mechanics. LockGuard was born, a simple, easy, accessible, and full featured particle chain system..... completely different than Lockmeister on every level because they do completely different things. Lockmeister passes keys back and forth. LockGuard creates configurable on-the-fly chains. How much more obvious a difference can there be? Though, I do have to say, it's *amazing* how well documented and supported Lockmeister became a short while *just* AFTER LockGuard was released, after being poorly documented and supported for such a long time, so maybe you saw a threat. In any instance, as a side effect of LockGuard, Lockmeister became more accessible to the people. That's never a bad thing, and I'm glad people who want to use Lockmeister have an easier time dealing with getting access to it than I had, good for Lockmeister, good for the people. And I'm *still* open to including Lockmeister in the LG Builders, but I really doubt you'll ever respond to that one. I don't hate Lockmeister, but it's pretty clear from your posts you hate LockGuard.

But that's not what this contest is about, is it? Like I said, I don't care if the entries are for b&d furniture..... it isn't a bondage furniture contest. It's a LockGuard usage contest, period, and what unique things people can do with it. It's not a Lockmeister vs LockGuard contest. It's a LockGuard usage contest. I really don't care what kind of LockGuard product it is, but if Kyrah wants to get into a pi**ing contest, I'd *love* to see Lockmeister do half the things LockGuard can do.

Just the facts, Kyrah, opinions left out:

Does Lockmeister create particle chains? No.
Can Lockmeister configure a particle chain on the fly? No.
Can Lockmeister determine if a chain is connected or not? No.
Does Lockmeister support notecarded ID tags? No.
Does Lockmeister support multiple ID tags? Definitely no.
Can Lockmeister disable its own listener or change its own channel? No.
Can Lockmeister configure and connect four cuffs chains using one single line of script? No.
Can Lockmeister use one way communication (ie, one listen)? No.
Can Lockmeister issue multiple commands in a single chatblock? No.
Does Lockmeister include a chain texture? No.
Does Lockmeister include a rope texture? No.
Does Lockmeister provide fully functional code? No.
Does Lockmeister come with fully functional examples? No.
Is Lockmeister designed to be plug and play? No.
Does Lockmeister evolve as fast as LockGuard? No.

Now, here's the other side of the fence, just the facts.

Can LockGuard pass keys? No.
Can LockGuard support color changing? No.
Can LockGuard turn off collar overrides? No.

So, there you have it, Kyrah. There's your pi**ing contest summed up in a feature by feature comparision.

Now, if people want to keep asking, "Why should they use LockGuard instead of Lockmeister?" I'll give them this answer, "Why did people switch from horses to cars when most people used horses? Cars are different, and while horses were great transportation in their time, people eventually picked cars because there's less sh** to deal with, and eventually, the car took over, but you will still see the occasional horse trotting about."

I'll still continue to use Lockmeister furniture, I hold no disrespect for Lockmeister. It does what it does well, it passes keys better than anything else in Second Life. But, LockGuard is not going anywhere, and I will continue to evolve and promote LockGuard as a product because I stand by it, I'm proud of it, and I'll actively support it until the day Second Life closes or I can't use a computer due to an industrial particle chain accident or something similar.

Finally, up until now, I've had nothing but respect for your products, Kyrah, and you as a builder, and I've always recommended them to people who ask who makes the best bondage-wear. But it's obvious you don't even have *common* respect for people, because everytime a LockGuard thread comes up you *have* to take your digs. I kept trying to build a bridge with you, and you kept burning it down. You might make good products, Kyrah, but it's too bad your attitude isn't half as good as what you build, and it shows through in many of your threads where your usual line amounts to, "People are stupid." Sorry to disappoint you, Kyrah, people are not stupid, and in the end it's this exact attitude you hold which drives a lot of people away from Lockmeister to begin with..... and as far as LockGuard is concerned, keep it up, you're only helping promote it.

i shouldn't even take the time to answer t this message considering how manipulative and misleading it is, as i say and will say again, lockmeister is NOT a plug and play application, its like complaining html diesn't include the wisiwyg editor.

since you seems to be very proud of what you acomplished, i have to quote you.




- Have you made lockguard opensource just in an attempt to get more chances to ditch lockmeister?

- do you really think that peoples won't believe that the similarities between the lockmeister and lockguard name isn't on purpose?

- it seems you had a pretty bad experience with me and lockmeister, wich, i am really sorry, i haven't a very stable temper and i have good days and bad days, like any of us, i remain a simple faillible human.

- Instead of creating another system wich will, i am sure fragment the creator community between totally uncompatible standards even more now than they where before, why didn't you post improvement suggestions on the existing systems, i am all open for suggestions and improvements.

- i am not AT ALL interested in a war just because of this i am friendly with several competitors and i prefere this kind of relationship to a sharp and agressive competition, it allow to collaborate find solutions and progress alltogether.

I made it open source because people kept asking me to do so. I listen to what people have to say, and when I notice a trend in requests, I respond. There's quite a few threads in the forum about LockGuard's previous closed-source nature, which is far less than the number of IMs I've gotten about open sourcing. So, I decided to open source. It's called a business decision, and listening to what the people have to say. After evaluating, there was no need to protect LockGuard's code, it was free anyway, it isn't a money making product. there's no need for me to protect it.

And Kyrah, I've even gone as far to ask your permission to offer Lockmeister support in the LockGuard Builders, multiple times, to which you've never even said, "No thanks."

Was offering to *support* your protocol with the Builders also a ditch on Lockmeister?


.....ChainGuard and PLink, the original names I had considered, aren't quite as catchy as LockGuard. I do put some thought into naming conventions. LockGuard's meaning fit the bill, and LockGuard is a marketable name, especially so because it's also a common name used among several different security services, companies, and devices throughout the world. And really, there's no mistaking the differences between Lockmeister and LockGuard, not even in name.


I never had a bad experience with you until you started digging in on the forums at every opportunity, and the only remotely "bad" experience I had with Lockmeister was trying to learn Lockmeister back in the day when there were no resources available, but still did it.... and I simply found out it wasn't what I wanted. Is this a crime I should be punished for?

LockGuard was not started as "an attack" on Lockmeister, though you seem to be taking it that way. It was started because of Lockmeister's limited ability to do what *I* wanted and needed at the time. That doesn't say, "Lockmeister bad." That says, "I needed an alternative." And there's an old saying which goes, "If you make something you need, then other people need it to." So, I released it, and I will continue to evolve it and support it to the best of my ability.


How could I post to improve an existing system when said existing system wasn't capable of doing what I wanted to do? I wanted a one>>way chain firing, linking and unlinking mechanism which could link multiple chains from a single identifier. How could you incorporate that into Lockmeister without changing your entire protocol and potentially making your items incompatible? I looked, I tried, my original intent was to do with Lockmeister what LockGuard does, but sadly, Lockmeister was not capable of doing it. A new system was required, from scratch. Hence, LockGuard.

So, how about if I ask you this question, "Instead of fragmenting the community by sticking with an older and less configurable system, why don't you migrate your products to a newer, easier, and more configurable system?"

After all, when the new LG Builder and LG Advanced Builder are released soon, I do expect LockGuard to spread its roots far and wide across the face of Second Life, not only in B&D furniture but in household furniture as well..... the LG Advanced Builder will be a sophisticated animation/poseball suite (also free) wrapped up with super easy configuration (and of course optional LockGuard support). Those who have seen the alpha version are anxiously awaiting its release.


I don't want a war either, Kyrah, and several times I've offered you the figurative olive branch, but you keep pushing us closer and closer to an inevitable battle, so maybe I'm the exception to this "friendly competitor" thing you speak of. Either way, don't preach to me what I don't see you practice.


If you want to get on friendly terms, then talk to me, don't insult me, my product, or my intentions.

so what do you want exactly?

I want peace between us, that's it, a truce if you will.