Front Of The Line -, let’s call it FTL for short - is your ticket into busy sims. Just add the landmark to the location you want to visit and FTL will try repeatedly to get you there.
I originally wrote FTL’s ancestor many moons ago when Truth Hair was having a huge sale and pretty much every avatar with a head was trying to get in there. I spent about 20 minutes double clicking the LM then “ding! – The region you are trying to enter is full”, then double click, “ding!”, double click, “ding!”. So. Very. Tedious.
So I scribbled together a RLV script that force TPed me every 10 seconds till I got there. It worked great and I loaded up on inexpensive Truth hair and was happy as could be. I still use it at least once a month to get into Collabor88 and...
Say… Does this sound sort of familiar to anyone else? Sort of like… I don’t know… Perhaps this: CheshireSoft Let Me In HUD (https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Cheshiresoft-LetMeIn-HUD/5750157)?
As it turns out I wasn’t the only one to think of this, It just never occurred to me that anyone else would want it – because clearly no one but me wanted to get to those crowded sims.
Sometimes I’m just such a dope :)
I read about the Let Me In HUD on the New World Notes blog and did the appropriate “I could’a had a V8″ face palm, but one of my personal rules about things that I’m going to try and sell is that I don’t want to duplicate an existing product unless I can add significantly to what it already does. So I went on my merry way making my other gadgets and gizmos until a couple of weeks ago when I decided I wanted to play with a little something the folks down at the lab call "llTeleportAgent" - cause that’s its name. It's the LSL function used by a scripted object to teleport someone to a landmark.
With that I had a HUD that can teleport without RLV – shocking isn’t it? A Mina gizmo not using RLV? Whatever is the world coming to? I also added:
✓ The ability to store unlimited LMs which you can select using a pop up menu.
✓ The ability to set the time interval between TP attempts.
✓ The ability to set the number of TP attempts.
✓ An optional audio alert to let you know when you’ve arrived.
So with all that I started to think that I’d fulfilled my “add significantly to what it already does” clause. Then I noticed that the MP listing for the Let Me In HUD starts out with:
" * * NOTE: I am on permanent vacation from SL. Products come as-is with no support. Sorry! "
So with all of that – plus posting the link for the Let Me In HUD listing – I’ve soothed my conscience sufficiently to present the FTL HUD for your "getting into crowded sims" pleasure :)
You can find the full, even MORE rambling instructions at http://diabolicalsuperscience.net/?p=591 and of course if you have any questions please feel free to drop me an IM.
- Does NOT require RLV
