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Ziggy Puff · 02-07-2008, 03:56 PM

I'll take a stab at answering this. In general, you have two SL 'issues' that you need to be aware of:

Moving no-copy inventory
Several of your AOs probably have animations in them that are no copy. You need to be careful when you do anything that involves no-copy items. You basically need to rez the AO on the ground, move the animation(s) from the old AO's inventory into your av's inventory, and then from there to the new AO's inventory (SL won't let you drag items from one object's inventory straight to another object).

So there are 2 inventory-move steps involved. Depending on how temperamental SL is being at that time, either of those could result in losing the item that you're trying to move. General tips for moving no-copy items include:

Pick a location where you have build permissions, and auto-return is off, or is sufficiently long
Pick a time when the asset server isn't acting up. If you're having trouble rezzing items or loading textures, that's a bad time to try moving no-copy items
Move items one at a time. It'll take a lot longer, but sometimes when you move a bunch of items together, not all of them show up at the destination
Wait for the item to show up at the destination before trying to move another item. Sometimes it takes several seconds.

Editing Attachments
Another SL quirk - changes made to an attachment sometimes don't 'stick', i.e. when you detach and re-attach the object, it's gone back to its old state. SL also prevents you from moving non-full-perm items to a worn attachment's inventory. For both these reasons, the best way to put animations into an AO is to rez it on the ground, add the animations, take the AO back into your inventory, and wear it.

Once you've got all the animations you want into one AO, all that remains is to set up the notecard to tell the AO scripts about your animations. This is easy for some people, confusing for some. I'd suggest using a ZHAO-II, it has (I believe) an easier-to-use notecard format. It comes with an instruction notecard that will show you how to add the animation names to the configuration notecard. And as I said earlier, you can find links in my profile to blog posts that walk you through the process as well.

The 'auto load thingamabob' you mentioned is probably the notecard converter. If you're moving an entire pre-configured AO into a ZHAO-II, that converter can come in handy, because it reads the old notecard and spits out the text needed in the new notecard. Since you're mixing and matching, you probably don't have an existing notecard that has the exact animations you want. So, in this case, the converter will be of limited use.

I'd just do the notecard by hand - read the instructions, go through the blog and look at the screenshots, IMO it's really not all that difficult. But then, I don't really have a detached impartial viewpoint here

02-07-2008, 03:56 PM	#66 (permalink)
Ziggy Puff Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2	I'll take a stab at answering this. In general, you have two SL 'issues' that you need to be aware of: Moving no-copy inventory Several of your AOs probably have animations in them that are no copy. You need to be careful when you do anything that involves no-copy items. You basically need to rez the AO on the ground, move the animation(s) from the old AO's inventory into your av's inventory, and then from there to the new AO's inventory (SL won't let you drag items from one object's inventory straight to another object). So there are 2 inventory-move steps involved. Depending on how temperamental SL is being at that time, either of those could result in losing the item that you're trying to move. General tips for moving no-copy items include: Pick a location where you have build permissions, and auto-return is off, or is sufficiently long Pick a time when the asset server isn't acting up. If you're having trouble rezzing items or loading textures, that's a bad time to try moving no-copy items Move items one at a time. It'll take a lot longer, but sometimes when you move a bunch of items together, not all of them show up at the destination Wait for the item to show up at the destination before trying to move another item. Sometimes it takes several seconds. Editing Attachments Another SL quirk - changes made to an attachment sometimes don't 'stick', i.e. when you detach and re-attach the object, it's gone back to its old state. SL also prevents you from moving non-full-perm items to a worn attachment's inventory. For both these reasons, the best way to put animations into an AO is to rez it on the ground, add the animations, take the AO back into your inventory, and wear it. Once you've got all the animations you want into one AO, all that remains is to set up the notecard to tell the AO scripts about your animations. This is easy for some people, confusing for some. I'd suggest using a ZHAO-II, it has (I believe) an easier-to-use notecard format. It comes with an instruction notecard that will show you how to add the animation names to the configuration notecard. And as I said earlier, you can find links in my profile to blog posts that walk you through the process as well. The 'auto load thingamabob' you mentioned is probably the notecard converter. If you're moving an entire pre-configured AO into a ZHAO-II, that converter can come in handy, because it reads the old notecard and spits out the text needed in the new notecard. Since you're mixing and matching, you probably don't have an existing notecard that has the exact animations you want. So, in this case, the converter will be of limited use. I'd just do the notecard by hand - read the instructions, go through the blog and look at the screenshots, IMO it's really not all that difficult. But then, I don't really have a detached impartial viewpoint here