Photo Projector 1.1

Here is an update to the Photo projector for sale at Oggy's scripted items.

With this new version 1.1, you can still display a virtually unlimited number of photos with a nice cross fade effect, with many options and menus. Please see the original article to read about the main features.

What's new is mainly the use of the new physics facilities introduced in SL (along with meshes) to make the beam phantom-like (but not really phantom, see the tech note below), as well as the screen when the projector is turned off.

Buyers of version 1.0 should have received version 1.1 as a free update. To update, either toss your photos and configuration notecard from version 1.0 into the new projector. You may also wish to write down your coordinates and orientation from version 1.0 to rez the new version exactly where your old version was.


Tech note : making a child prim phantom was never officially supported within SL (see here). It could be done by exploiting a bug in the server software through a dedicated script, but this might not work anymore some day. I chose to use the new physics engine to achieve the same result as a phantom child, but without hacking :). Just declaring that the prim should not be involved in any collision-type treatment.

RezzerSync 1.0 plugin for Oggy's Rezzer

Here is a new plugin available for Oggy's Rezzer (version 4.0 or higher) : RezzerSync 1.0, free of charge at Oggy's Scripted Items maketplace store.

With this plugin, you will be able to "synchronize" several rezzers together. This means that when one rezzer rezzes an object, other rezzers from the same "group" (see below) will be told to unrez their objects.

This will help to keep prim usage on your land to a minimum. A similar feature already exists within the rezzer itself (option rez_linkedrezzers) but requires that the rezzers be linked together, which imposes some (spatial) restrictions. With the RezzerSync plugin, the restrictions are gone and your rezzers can be scattered all over the sim...

In order to organize the rezzers into independent groups, as well as to prevent unwanted interference with your neighbors, the plugin supports one plugin option :

!!RS_groupid=(anything)

Only rezzers with the same group id will be synchronized together.

Please contact me to report problems you might encounter or to ask for features you may need...

Happy new year 2012 !

I wish all avatars around the grid a very happy new year 2012 ! May you find happiness and all you wish.

This was taken at the great Crazy Diamond club.

Plugin updates

The Vendor, Statistics and Emailer plugins for Oggy's Rezzer all received an update. Here is a summary of changes. Vendor and Statistics are separately available at Oggy's scripted items (Emailer is included in all packages), as well as in the Vendor bundle for Oggy's Rezzer.

Emailer version 1.1 (updates from version 1.0) :

• New option EML_incomingcopy that forwards all incoming emails to another email address (useful for debugging purposes).
• All email addresses now get their spurious spaces removed.

Statistics version 2.1 (updates from version 2.0) :

• Spurious spaces removed from email addresses from the configuration notecard. This will solve problems related to email commands not working because of an extra invisible space at the end of the line.
• Avatar legacy names now allowed in option STA_allowedtalkers, in addition to user names. This means you can use
  

  !!STA_allowedtalkers=Oggy Fink

  instead of the still valid
  

  !!STA_allowedtalkers=oggy.fink

Vendor version 2.1 (updates from version 1.1) :

• Complete rewrite of the code handling the VD_sale option, causing a dramatic reduction of memory consumption.
• email addresses now get trimmed off spurious spaces.
• Default announces supported through a new VD_defaultannounce option.
• VD_salemsg now supports %n as a placeholder for object name.

I wish a happy new year 2012 to all avatars around the grid !

TSO Concert @ Fab Chopper's Top Gear

What a great concert tonight by Draco Production impersonating the wonderful Trans Siberian Orchestra... Check out those pictures !

Great concert guys
 !

Oggy's Rezzer 4.0 - vendor bundle !

Now available at Oggy's scripted items, a vendor bundle for Oggy's Rezzer version 4.0, including :

• Oggy's Rezzer 4.0
• Vendor Plugin 1.1
• Statistics Plugin 2.0
• Emailer Plugin 1.0
• Timed Unrez 2.0
• Sound Player 1.0

Regular price : L$720. This bundle for L$650 !

Statistics Plugin 2.0

Update !
The Statistics plugin for Oggy's Rezzer 4.0 now comes as version 2.0.

As the previous version, this plugins records some statistics about how the rezzer is used by your visitors and provides commands you can use either by email or by private chat.

However, this version also has some important improvements :

• Now all email operations (receiving, sending) are done through a separate Emailer plugin (included). Just include it and email functions are active.
• Now compatible with the Vendor 1.1 plugin or higher. This means that if the Vendor plugin is installed, sales are recorded and reported along with the Rezzer's statistics.
• Email subject filtering for email commands is now case insensitive, and supports a "Re:" prefix.
• More than one STA_email option is allowed in the configuration notecard.
• Some minor bugs were squished.

The reason why email functions were deported to the Emailer  plugin is to prevent the statistics plugin from  suffering from the llEmail() 20 seconds penalty : now only the Emailer plugin is put to sleep during 20 seconds after sending an email, and not the whole statistics plugin. Plus all the email sending and receiving is now centralized and done asynchronously with respect to other plugins, which is A Good Thing®.

Now available at Oggy's scripted items market place store for as cheap as L$20.