H2C - Full Motion Authentic Acoustic / Classic Rock Guitar Animation HUD and AO
Thank you for your interest in the H2C HUD.
The H2C is primarily a HUD for acoustic guitar or classic rock electric guitar.
H2C operates similar to H2X or H2B. We believe the H2C
to be the among our flagship HUDs at OD Designs, and is among the finest available in
Second Life.
Take a ride on the demo pose-ball and see for yourself! secondlife://OD Designs/122/105/22
The HUD has buttons that control pyros, lasers, lightning, and other various guitar special effects. PLEASE NOTE; Not all guitars have all special effects. The HUD will control whatever effects are built into your particular OD guitar. Just because of of your OD guitars has lasers (for example) doesn't mean ALL OD guitars have lasers. To find out what special effects are included in a particular guitar click the guitar vendor poster and select INFO from the drop-down menu.
NOTE: There have been some instances
of users that cannot get the HUD buttons to respond, or, the only buttons that
respond are the "dance" animations. The solution is to use
the latest SL viewer version. Some alternate viewers can cause problems.
With H2C you HAVE to re-attach your guitar and adjust (and teach) a new
guitar position. Be patient.. it's worth it. Follow each step
down through this page....
Previous OD HUDs and animation assumed the guitar was attached
to the CHEST or SPINE, this doesn't work for here. Attach your guitar to the LEFT UPPER ARM
Since you will be attaching your guitar to a new body location and
adjusting the position.. OD recommends that you MAKE A NEW COPY of your
guitar.... put it into a new folder so you can tell which is which... then
attach the new copy to your upper arm and adjust it. This will ensure that
you still have the old copy of your guitar still attached to your chest and
adjusted per your taste.. (just in case you want to use it that way too).
If you are strumming left handed attach the guitar to
your RIGHT upper arm
The easiest way to adjust your guitar position is to "sit" on
the Pose Stand included in your package. Your "neck" hand will
move between the various grip position automatically. Assuming
you have the guitar attached to your UPPER ARM you can touch the blue
"Default" buttons and the guitar will snap to various
positions. This should get you close to ideal. Use the
Arrow controls or normal SL "edit" controls to adjust the guitar
position until all of the hand positions look good.
Remember to touch your guitar and "Teach Front" so it will
remember the adjustment.
With the guitar attached for use with H2C, wearing it "on your
back" doesn't really work well. If you want to carry it on
back.. make a copy (or wear your original copy) and carry that one on your
back.
When you like the position click SAVE POSITION at the base of the pose
stand. Your guitar will remember this as the "Front"
position and the position will be saved into the pose stand. You
can later recall this position for other guitars. The stand is
copiable, you may find that the correct position to save is slightly
different for different guitar builds. Feel free to have multiple
copies of the pose stand each with a different saved position.
A looping "base" animation. Animates your entire body. Geen is regular speed. Blue is slower.
A "one-shot" version of an animation. These are meant to
be played on top of a looping base animation. They animate your
entire body, run once and then end. Its a cool way to throw
variety into your performance. Green is regular speed. Blue is slower
A long sequence of looping animations. These will play a sequence
of varying animations and typically run for several minutes before they
start repeating. A good way to "fire and forget" and still
have a good variety in your performance. Green is regular speed. Blue is slower
Jump
("E" Key or "PgUp" Key)
With the A/O activated these keys will make your
avatar jump. There are several different jumps. You can choose
a specific one or let the HUD choose them randomly
Walk
The built-in A/O contains various "walk and
play guitar" animations. You can choose a specific one or let
the HUD choose them randomly.
Kneel
("C" Key or "PgDn" Key)
With the A/O activated this keys will make your
avatar kneel on both knees.
Main Menu
Adjust Text. Shift the button labels around to suit your
display.
Left Hand. Play animations in left
handed mode. When playing left handed you need to wear
your guitar on the RIGHT arm/hand. Left/Right hand must be set
for both the Main and the Expression HUDs. You don't want them
operating in opposite modes... that would just look silly.
Right Hand. Play animations in
right handed mode. When playing right handed you need to
wear your guitar on the LEFT arm/hand. Left/Right hand must be
set for both the Main and the Expression HUDs. You don't want
them operating in opposite modes... that would just look silly.
Lock Hand.
Toggles the "lock hand" feature ON and OFF.
Enable this only if you are attaching the guitar to your lower arm
or hand.
PreLoadSim. Play all of the animations one at a
time. This loads the animations into the local sim and
reduces lag later. this process takes a few minutes. You
will see your avatar cycle through the animations.
AO. Displays the AO (animation
override) menu. Not all of the buttons on the AO menu are
significant. These are the significant ones:
AO On/Off. Turns the animation
override feature ON and OFF. Animation override is a series
of animations that activate as you move your avatar. ie:
Walking, Jumping, Crouching.
Walks. Select a specific
"walk" animation, or choose ANY to let the HUD chose one
for you randomly each time you begin walking.
Jumps. Select a specific
"jumping" animation, or choose ANY to let the HUD chose
one for you randomly each time you Jump.
Male/Female. Toggle between
male and female modes. The difference between the 2
modes:
the "simple" AO walk
animation is different for male/female
the "at rest" animation is
different for male/female
Reset. Resets the AO.
This could be useful if it becomes confused.
Various facial expression sequences. Happy, Sad, Angry, etc.
Remote control allows a "helper" avatar to
control your HUD. This is very useful for live musicians. The
musician can play his instrument RL and a helper avatar can remote control the
performer's avatar in game.
The performer needs to own the HUD. The
helper does not.
The helper needs to get the free HUD Remote at the
HUD display in the store.
Performer wears his HUD Main and Expression
Helper wears his Main and Expression Remote
controller HUDs
Setup Passwords
Both the performer and the helper need to set the
same password on their respective HUD's and remotes.
Password is taught on channel 100.. like this...
/100 mypword
After the passwords are set the helper will be able
to control the performers HUD HUDs.
Your HUD purchase entitles you to free updates for life. Updates are likely to include things like bug fixes, things that don't work, on occassion addional sequences of existing animations, additional minor features. Updates are not likely to include additional animations not present in the original release.
