HUDDLES EZ Animator

HUDDLES EZ Animator: Basic Help

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I. QUICK START
A. ADDING ANIMATIONS
B. PLAYING ANIMATIONS
C. BROWSING ANIMATIONS
D. DANCE AND RANDOM MODE
E. NEXT DANCE
F. MINIMIZING AND MOVING HUD
G. HELP BUTTON

II. DANCER OPTIONS
A. INVITING DANCERS (and the HUDDLES Dance Ball)
B. REMOVING DANCERS AND CLEARING DANCER LIST
C. SELF ANIMATION
D. DANCE TIME INTERVAL

III. ADMIN OPTIONS
A. SILENT MODE
B. DANCE TIME INTERVAL
C. CHANGING HUD ALPHA (TRANSPARENCY)
D. CHANGING HUD COLOR

BEFORE YOU START

HUD’s are attachments that appear on your screen. To put on the EZ Animator,
just “Wear” it from you inventory. You may also attach it to any other HUD
position. To take it off, right click on it and choose “Detach”.

I. QUICK START

A. ADDING ANIMATIONS
There are two ways to add animations to your EZ Animator:
– For animations with limited permissions (no copy or no transfer)
— Drag the EZ Animator from your inventory to the ground.
— Right click on it and choose ‘Open’
— Drag animations from your inventory into the contents of the EZ Animator.
– For full permissions animations you may also simply drag a copy from your
inventory and drop it onto the HUD while wearing it.

B. PLAYING ANIMATIONS
Just click the name of the animation you want to play. Remember for long
animations, it may take a moment for it to load to your client, just like a
large texture.

C. BROWSING ANIMATIONS
Use the arrow keys just below the animation names to browse all the animations
in the HUD’s inventory. From left to right the buttons are:
|<< First Page << Previous >> Next
>>| Last Page

D. DANCE AND RANDOM MODE
The Dance button is the middle button in the first row of buttons. It looks like
a man dancing. When you click on this button, you begin “dance” mode. The
EZ Animator will begin with the first animation in the HUD’s inventory and play
each animation in order.

The Random button looks like a die. It’s on the left in the second row. Random
mode works exactly like the Dance mode except that it chooses a random order
to play the animations in.

To stop Dance or Random mode, simply click the button again or click the “Stop”
button. The stop button is square icon in the middle button in the second row.

E. NEXT DANCE
When in Dance or Random mode, you may skip to the next song by clicking the
“Next” button–the single arrow icon on the right of the second row.

F. MINIMIZING AND MOVING HUD
To minimize the EZ Animator, click the Minimize button on the top right corner
of the device. It will shrink to a small bar with one button. This is the Restore
button used to restore the HUD on your screen.

To move the HUD on your screen, right click on it and choose “Edit.” Use the
blue and green arrows to drag it somewhere else on the screen.

The EZ Animator remembers two positions, the position it was last minimized
and the position it was last full size. So, you can choose an out of the way
spot to position it while minimized and it will return there whenever you minimize it.

IMPORTANT – If you ever attach the EZ Animator to a new HUD position, it will
clear the last saved positions. This is a feature, if for some reason you attach the
HUD and you don’t see it on your screen, attach it to different HUD spot.

G. HELP BUTTON
At the top of the HUD is a button which has a question mark for an icon. Click on
this button and a copy of this notecard will pop on your screen.

II. DANCER OPTIONS

The EZ Animator not only animates you, but up to 10 friends as well. This is most
often used for dancing, but there are other applications for it as well.

A. INVITING DANCERS (and the HUDDLES Dance Ball)
There are two ways for others to join your EZ Animator:
– The Invite button (the envelope icon next to the Random button) brings up
a list of the 16 closest avatars (use the arrow keys to see the last six). To invite
one to dance, click their name.
— If you don’t wish to invite someone on the list, click the invite button again
to return to normal operation.
– You can also wear the HUDDLES Dance Ball. It is an invisible prim that attaches
to your avatar. Someone else can click on it to start dancing with you and to
stop dancing with you. You do not need to be wearing the Dance Ball to invite
others to dance with you.

B. REMOVING DANCERS AND CLEARING DANCER LIST
The button with two dancers is for removing dancers from your EZ Animator.
Click on this button and a list of your current dancers will pop up. Click on one of
the names to remove them from your EZ Animator, or choose “CLEAR ALL” to
remove everyone.

C. SELF ANIMATION
There are times when you will not want to animate yourself, but still animate
the dancers on your EZ Animator. To turn off self animation, click the “Me” button.
To turn it back on, click it again.

III. ADMIN OPTIONS

A. SILENT MODE
This button looks like a bullhorn. Click it to turn “Silent Mode” on or off. In silent
mode, the vast majority of chat spam is eliminated.

B. DANCE TIME INTERVAL
The button that looks like a wrist watch is the button to set a new Dance Time
Interval. Click it and then type in a number of seconds to set the time between
dances in Dance or Random mode. The default time is 20 seconds.

C. CHANGING HUD ALPHA (TRANSPARENCY)
The alpha (or transparency) button looks like a cursive “a”. Click in and then
choose how transparent you want your HUD to be.

D. CHANGING HUD COLOR
The color button is last. Click it and then choose a color for the buttons on your
HUD.

**** Please note that this HUD attachment was created with the screen set to: 1024 x 768 and looks best at that screen resolution. It works fine at other resolutions, but the text will be smaller or bigger depending on your settings. ****

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