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| Shown with .:Azzy Design:. Solar Flare Barre Skin |
It’s been far too long since I’ve last blogged. I’ll be
honest, I haven’t had a lot to blog about, and I haven’t been feeling to
particularly good. But, I have been hosting Barre HUD classes and I can see
that there are a lot of dancers feeling a bit overwhelmed when they first look
at the HUD. I mean, who wouldn’t? There’s lots of buttons, and not knowing
which one does what is kind of daunting if you ask me. I’m going to try and not get too techy
with you all. I’m going to break it down into two maybe three blogs as well so
I don’t overwhelm you with too much information at one time cause, lets face
it, if you learn too much too fast you’re probably not going to remember even
half of what I said. That will lead to nothing but frustration and anger…. and
neither are a good place to be.
So,
you’ve got your shiny new HUD out on the ground and you’re wondering just where
to start…let me tell you, there is no difference from this HUD to the next
loading it. I will say however, there is a simpler way to load your animations
to it than dragging them over one at a time. In your box of goodies with the Barre HUD folder, there will
be an object called !RR 1.1 Transfer Script Boxed. You’ll want to open that and
remember where it is, store it somewhere in your inventory that you can find it
easily. You can either have all your animations inside an object or even an old
HUD will work just as well. Drop the send animations script into that object or
said HUD with the animations in it, then drop the receive script into your
empty new HUD. You’ll have a pop up menu that will appear on the lower right
hand of your screen. Click either Copy Dances or Copy Quiet D. Either one will
work. Copy dances will list all your dances as they transfer over while the
quiet will not. You and only you can see the dance list in local chat so you
don’t have to worry about spamming anyone. Once it’s done, click clean up and
it will remove both scripts from the HUD and the object. As a special note: If you’re going from
a Huddles to a Barre, do not copy your note cards over since the format is a
bit different and they will not work properly in the Barre. (I’ll cover the
note cards in my next blog).
YAY!
So now you have animations in your HUD! Go ahead and pick it up and put that
pretty shiny new HUD on. There will be a pop up that asks if it’s positioned
correctly on your screen, which you can click yes, and still adjust it to your
liking after the fact. Also, there is a pop-out panel that now exists that
wasn’t there on the Barre 3.02. To move that menu up, close or down, click on
the double arrow button on the very top left corner. Click it once will move it
inside the HUD, click it again and it will appear down at the bottom (like the
image above).
So
many buttons…yes, I know, but you don’t have to know what each one does just
yet, I’ll cover the important ones, to get you started. The Me button should be highlighted
most if not all times. That’s you…if its not highlighted you will not dance.
The double bar button next to it is pause; the square is stop or stop all. This
will be used to release any dancers from your HUD that you’ve invited. You can
also stop yourself, which will “turn off” the ME button. You’ll have to
re-click the ME button to “invite” yourself back onto your HUD. The left, right
and the % bar above it will allow you to flip through your pages quickly. Using
the left and right will flip forward or backwards one page at a time. While the
% bar will allow you to flip to a particular dance quickly. All the animations
are listed in alphabetical order.
The double people button is your invite button. This will allow you to
individually invite avatars to your HUD or you can click invite all if you
happen to be dancing a whole crowd.
Do note however, that this will not assign them to a group. Everyone
will be in the same group with a standard invite. I’ll cover that too in the
next blog promise. The double arrow button is your re-sync button. This will
allow you to re-sync yourself or other dancers so you are all dancing in time**
(camming and other factors will affect how in sync you are. So, if you’re
dancing a group, keep this in mind.)
The
next three buttons are probably the most used buttons on your HUD. The list
button (bottom left hand side looks like a list) will list off ALL animations
you have in your HUD. You won’t have to make a note card with each animation
you own, instead you can click this button and it will allow you to see exactly
what you have in your HUD. The next two buttons I’m going to cover a bit out of
order. They will be more in the order that you would use them than the order
they are on the HUD. The load button (disk button) is where you can load
multiple note cards on your HUD for quick dancing. The Barre comes standard
with four empty slots, you can add more with the toolbox but again that’s
something I will get to later. Click on the load button, and then it will ask
you to pick a slot, chose one. The HUD will flip to a new page with all your
note cards you have in the HUD. Click on the one you want, then it will tell
you that it’s loading the note card.
So, now you want to access that lovely new note card you loaded, click
on the Oreo button in the middle. The Oreo button will show you all the loaded
note cards you have in your HUD. Now, when I say loaded, I mean the ones that
you’ve physically put into the empty slots.
Load>pick slot > pick note card > click Oreo
I
think I’ve covered quiet a bit of stuff, more than enough to at least get you
started on your way to using your Barre. Your homework….load your HUD with
animations, and play with the buttons lol…and remember HAVE FUN!
Questions or anything at all please please don’t be afraid
to hit me up I’m more than happy to help you. We do offer classes on Sundays
and Wed at Noon. Though, I would be willing to do some one on one session or
even some later ones for a group.
XOXOXOX
Azzy
