EZ Animator Deluxe Discusion Thread

If you have noticed any problems with the EZ Animator Deluxe, now is the time to let me know about it. I'm working on an upgrade to fix bugs, improve performance and possibly add some new features. If you have any ideas, please post something on this thread.

Not a bug, but a feature request that would really help out. Quite often animations come No Mod, so you can't rename - and they come with extra spaces that are next to impossible to see. What would be nice is a button or command that would output a list of all the animation's names to the owner, so that you could copy/paste the problematic names.

A simular item for 'objects' in the unit would make macro creation easier also, but not near as needed as the animations listing.

A bug I encountered, and at least one other person.
If a user renames an already loaded notecard within Huddles ADV contents, it appears to trash Huddles. You have to start over again from an original copy.
I assume that Huddles keeps looking for the loaded notecard and can't find it?
I would suspect a simple error message like 'notecard not found' or 'load new notecard.'
Not the total trash of Huddles app.
This renaming is a mistake a new user could easily make.

Could you provide a step by step way that this happens? Obviously it shouldn't happen. But the HUDDLES shouldn't care what the name of the notecard is. Once it loads the information from it, you should be able to rename it all you want. You should be able to delete the notecard after you load it. It shouldn't make any difference. Could it have been that you changed the name of the notecard, while it was being loaded? I'll test for that.

And when you say "trash" the huddles, what happens? Does it behave strangely? Did you try resetting the scripts to fix?

Ok, here is what I replicated... I changed the name while the notecard was loading and it did produce the error and stop working. Resetting the scripts fixes this, but I will see if I can figure out someway for the HUDDLE to recover from this automatically.

Is this what you are talking about?

Since the last couple of updates teh HUDDLES has a tendency to become totaly unresponsive. It will not respond to any button clicks. sometimes this can be fixed by detaching and reattaching but most time not. This will usually resolve in time and become usable again but it is a major problem.

Do you have any idea what you did right before it becomes unresponsive? And does resetting the scripts fix this?

Hi all.

I have EZ Animator Deluxe v1.0.4 and Landmark Pal v0.4. Both have become completely unresponsive and all the buttons are blanked out. I did the reset scripts thing mentioned in the Help guide, but this didn't work. Also tried detaching/re-attaching and logging off/on and still nothing.

Now, I also wanted to mention that I have a mouth hud that has also stopped working so it isn't just Huddles stuff. But I just wanted to chime in here since someone might know what the solution is for all my huds.

I haven't tried rezzing a new copy from the original box I have (think I still have) because I can't get my 'no copy' scripts out of the broken version. There are quite a few in there and I can't afford to replace them.

Hope someone can figure this out. I'm embarrassed to leave the house now since my AO is gone. I look ridiculous walking around in high heels using the default "retard-on-mescaline" anim.

Thanks.

***EDIT***

Almost forgot. Landmark Pal conked out about an hour before EZ Anim. I used it to teleport somewhere, then minimized it. When I tried to reopen it, it wouldn't respond. Later, I used EZ Anim to do a few poses for photos and minimized it. When I opened it again, the buttons were blank. It goes downhill from there...

Hope that helps a bit.

These don't sound like bugs in the scripts but rather SL bugs. I will IM you in game and get you some help.

This time, the buttons on the HUD all went blank on me. I minimized it because I was busy with something and didn't have time to puzzle it out then. Later, I found it was again unresponsive. The difference now is that all the text for the animation button seems to be written a few centimeters over top of the minimized bar. And it looks like all of the text items are written one over top of another.

This happened yesterday night, but today it wasn't fixed. I've detached/reattached, relogged, reset all scripts and recompiled them.

I don't want to have to scrap this copy because it has so much in it, so I haven't tried rezzing another one.

Also, my other HUDs are working fine this time.

Thanks.

***EDIT***

Just wanted to mention that a nice guy from the group in-world came by helped get it going for me. I'm not sure what it was that fixed it, but he had be reset several different scripts individually. That got it kickstarted again.

BIG THANKS TO MATHUEN!!

In the next version, I've added a reset command to reset all the scripts without fiddling with the menus and such. Should be convenient for these kinds of problems.

Is there any offers that u might have that allow a Basic owner to acquire the Deluxe version without paying the full Deluxe price?

Thanks

Yes. Contact me via IM in world.

I finally have the 1.1.0 update ready to go. Some all around perfomance imrpovements and lots of little fixes, but the big news is that it finally supports Hug style couples animations.

I wanted to release the update today, but it looks like I will be releasing it Saturday or Monday. I'm afraid to release it before the recent asset server related issues is cleared up. I don't want people transferring lots of animations from one device to another under these circumstances.

Still waiting for LL to sort things out before I send the update.

*** PLEASE NOTE! VERY IMPORTANT! ***

SL can be buggy when transferring large numbers of animations into an object or from an object into your inventory.

1. DO NOT attempt this upgrade process when the SL database seems to be lagging or having problems. You may want to try tping around the grid or rezzing copiable items to and from your inventory to make sure SL is running smoothly before you begin.
   
2. ALSO, DO NOT PICK UP your new version EZAD immediately after transferring the animations. Wait a minute and make sure that all the animations transferred from your inventory. In some cases the asset server needs time to "catch up". After moving animations, the inventory list of your EZAD will repop. Make sure it has repopped and your animations have moved.

UPGRADE INFORMATION:

To upgrade to the new version of the EZAD, you will need to transfer your animations, notecards and anything else you added from your older version to the newer version. Here is a step by step guide on how to do this.

1. Drop your old version of the EZAD onto the ground.
2. Right click on it and choose "open".
3. Open your personal inventory and create a temporary folder.
4. Select and drag your animations from your EZAD and drop them into your temporary folder. You can select multiple animations, notecards and other objects. Be careful not to copy the scripts over.
5. Drop your new version of the EZAD onto the ground.
6. Right click on it and choose "edit", then click "more" and finally the "content" tab.
7. Drag your animations, notecards and other objects from your inventory into the EZAD.
8. Wait! Make sure your animations have transferred before you pick your EZAD up. See note above.

WHAT'S NEW

Basic features:

- /99reset will reset all the scripts in your EZAD. Best done with the EZAD on the ground.
- /99update to get latest version sent to you. Updating doesn't work right away after purchase. There may be a delay of several days before the database is updated.
- Improved "Stop All Animations" behavior.
- Reduced number of scripts for better performance

Macro enhancements:

- [TARGET] - Use this tag in the middle of an emote and the name of your current target will replace the tag.
- web address,text - Displays a blue drop down dialog with the text displayed to take you to an outside web address
- [HUG]anim1,anim2,time,move,emote - Allows the user to offer a hug to a nearby avatar. anim1 and anim2 are the animations used for the hug. Time is the duration. Emote is displayed as the hug plays. Time and emote are both optional. Move can be set to TRUE or FALSE. If TRUE (the default), you will move to the huggee before the animation begins. If FALSE, you will stay in place.

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed an error dealing with notecard names.
- Fixed bug with stop animations.
- Timing issue with AO fixed.
- Fixed example script for avatars within chat range.
- Fix names, they are now always up to 20 characters.

Thank you! I just finished copying my purchased AO animations over to the upgraded EZAD. I'm very excited about the addition of the Hug support.-

It might be my imagination, or my connection, but the transition between the AO stand animations seems a bit more abrupt than it did with EZAD 1.0.4.

-MM

I don't know. The changes in the code for the AO are extremely minor. Basically one little bug fix that most 1.0.4 models already have.

Alrighty, I have a known issue for the next update, so I'm starting a list:

1. [xx] command doesn't work for channels 0-9. I need to change something in the "emoter" script in link 2.
   
2. Checking into an error with the AO where setting the stand time to 0 doesn't work. Problem in consolidated script.

Both seem relatively benign errors, so I may not actually send an update out when I get a fix for them. I want to wait till either I have some real upgrades for the features or someone finds a critical error that needs to be fixed.

There is a work around for this. If you want the EZAD to say something on channel 1, the command:

[1]Say something

won't work, but

[01]Say something

should work. The bug happens when the channel is only one digit.

Perhaps someonw who knows Scripting better than I can figure this one out...

I've created a script to make an SLURL from a notecard in Huddles.

It takes two parts.. the script, and a line in a notecard.

The script I have is:

//SLURL maker for channel 125
//To Activate type /125 SLURL

key owner;
integer channelUUID1;
integer channelUUID2;
integer channelUUID3;


string escape(string msg) 
{
    return llDumpList2String(llParseString2List(msg, [" "], []), "%20");
}

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
    
        owner = llGetOwner();
        llListenRemove( channelUUID1 );
        llListenRemove( channelUUID2 );
        llListenRemove( channelUUID3 );
        channelUUID1 = llListen(125,"",owner,"");
        channelUUID2 = llListen(126,"",NULL_KEY,"");
        channelUUID3 = llListen(127,"","","");
        
        //llListen(125, "", NULL_KEY, "");
        //llListen(126, "", llGetOwner(), "");
        //llListen(127, "", "", "");
        //llListen(125, "", llGetOwner(), "");
        llInstantMessage(owner,"SLURL Ready"); 
    }
  

    attach(key attached)
    {
    //Resetting Script each time it's attached to make sure that owners are all purged
     if (attached != NULL_KEY)
        {
        llInstantMessage(owner,"Resetting SLURL scripts for new Owner."); 
        //llOwnerSay("Resetting SLURL scripts for new Owner.");
        llResetScript();
        //llOwnerSay("SLURL Ready");
        }        
    }
        
        
    listen(integer c, string name, key id, string msg)
    {
    if ( llGetOwnerKey(id) == llGetOwner() )
        { 
        if (msg == "SLURL")
            {
            llInstantMessage(owner,"Here is your SLURL" ); 
//          llOwnerSay("Here is your SLURL"); 
            
            vector pos = llGetPos();  
            
            llInstantMessage(owner,"http://slurl.com/secondlife/" + escape(llGetRegionName()) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.x) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.y) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.z) + "/"); 
            
//            llOwnerSay("http://slurl.com/secondlife/" + escape(llGetRegionName()) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.x) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.y) + "/" + (string)llRound(pos.z) + "/");

            } // Close  if (msg == "SLURL")
        } //  Close if ( llGetOwnerKey(id) == llGetOwner() )
    } //Close Listen Event
    
   
}

Note: You'll notice 3 different channels because I'm trying to debug which method works.
No matter which channel only a Dialog Option seems to work... Here are my testing notecard lines..

[NAME]125SLURL Maker|[125]SLURL
[NAME]125SLURL Maker|[0125]SLURL
[NAME]125SLURL Maker|[DIALOG]SLURL Maker,SLURL,125
[NAME]126SLURL Maker|[126]SLURL
[NAME]126SLURL Maker|[0126]SLURL
[NAME]126SLURL Maker|[DIALOG]SLURL Maker,SLURL,126
[NAME]127SLURL Maker|[127]SLURL
[NAME]127SLURL Maker|[0127]SLURL
[NAME]127SLURL Maker|[DIALOG]SLURL Maker,SLURL,127

Notice only the 3rd, 6th and 9th lines preduce results (and they all do).
The other lines give back silence.

I can't figure out if my problem is somewhere in my script, or in my notecard or the same bug that prevented single digits from working.

The odd thing is.. it DID work ONCE! But then I had to go and add something to my hud and now it won't work anymore except the dialog options.

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I decided to get away from listening via chat and instead used a link to overcome my problem (though I'd still like to know why this isn't working). See other thread if you want the solution.

Feature request: Add [target] tag to dialogs.

Feature Request: adding [target] tag to dialogs.

I am going to be attempting some other scripts soon and wondered exaclty how do you 'target' someone?

Unlike most online RPG's I've played I've nsever seen a target window showing you who your current target is....

I saw one script somewhere in which you SET the target first by typing in thier name... or another which shows the closest 5 people via dialog (ala AdHud).

Always wondered how this worked in SL.

I just purchased this gadget a few days ago and I can't get the lists to display properly. It appears that the buttons are being populated, but only zero or one button actually has visible text in it (green or white on black). The blank buttons are live, because they do stuff when I click them. I've tried /99reset, and recompiling and resetting scripts, doesn't fix the issue. I have not knowingly made any configuration changes other than to load the SL Animations notecard. This problem is persistent across several days on several sims. I also use AVPack and Xcite, but the problem manifests whether or not I am wearing them. It is possible it was damaged during install - I don't remember when exactly but it was in the time period when SL was having many inventory and database issues. Any suggestions would be appreciated - I'm sorry but right now this thing is pretty useless. Thanks!