MyCyclingAO

Intro:
This is my full-perms redistributable AO script. Why make it so open? ZHAO has been the standard in SL for many years, but relies on an old outdated script method that is a bit slow, and breaks in no-script areas. It needs to be phased out. This is my idea for a phase out.
I've made it an open script so that people can take it, improve it, and hand it out with their animation kits - much as they do with the old ZHAO.

I'm hoping people like this and spread it around, but given how long it's been that ZHAO has been dominant, I don't expect this to take over any time soon...
That said, if you're using an AO that breaks in a no-script zone, you need to switch off of it... Not need as in "you're a lag monster", just need as in... why live with that hassle? The code to let AOs keep working even in no-script areas was added to SL in 2013... and 7.7 years later still almost no one has upgraded... /sigh...

So take my code, make it your idea of better if you want, and let's get into the current decade at least...

Setup:

Short version:

1. Rez a prim.
2. Put all the animations from your old ZHAO AO into the prim.
3. Put the notecard of your old ZAHO AO that is named 'Default' into the prim.
4. Put the script 'MyCyclingAO' into the prim, or 'MyCyclingAOTypingVersion' if you have typing animations.
5. Take the prim into inventory.
6. Attach the prim to a HUD Spot.
7. Edit it and use your mouse scroll wheel to 'scroll back' so you can see the 'edge of your normal screen'. Drag the prim to outside of there so it's 'usually hidden'.
8. A bunch of stuff will spam you in a private chat in the 'Nearby Chat' window...
9. When the spam is done... type '/3' and hit return
10. It will now spam the instructions on how to use the AO.

- Somewhere in this process you MIGHT get a popup asking for permission to animate you, if it's from this prim, accept it / allow it.

So... this is a radically different kind of AO that you might be used to.

- It sets your animation state, not your animation. So it will keep working when you go to a no-script area, and even if you take i off. It just won't change animations while in no-script or detached.
- when you log out the animation state goes back to 'SL default', so you need to at least let this AO run once after a log in. If it's attached it will just do that on it's own.
- It changes your animation state random every 'about 45 seconds' (slightly random timer) for your current animation and a random bunch of the other animation states.
- It has no buttons, and can be hidden off screen. You could even put the script and the animations into your left nose-ring and forget about it there if for some crazy reason you wanted it there...
- everything works through chat commands on "channel 3" - you can edit the script to change this channel to something else... I made it '3' because that's super fast to type in.
- you can always get the instructions by typing "/3" and hitting enter.
- It works as a regular AO, plus dance AO, plus typing AO
- currently it lacks a swimming AO. I plan this, eventually - just don't want it to cause lag for something not often used. But obviously for mermaids and such that will be super important.
- it uses extremely low script time and has active memory management to keep a very low footprint. BUT the more animations you put into it the more it will use. However with a couple hundred animations in my personal copy I'm only up to 61kb's used and still almost 0 script time.