Thank you for your interest in the FreebieFinder! FreebieFinder helps make those treasure hunts when you are looking for freebies a little bit easier. It is also useful for finding objects you have misplaced, such as accidentally sunk into the ground or moved inside a wall.
FreebieFinder is a simple HUD that searches nearby and tells you whether an object whose name begins with the search string you input is found. This will mkae those gift hunts a lot easier, because the coordinates of the objects are displayed. It can also display the location of the found item on the map.
To use the FreebieFinder:
In your inventory, right click the FreebieFinder and choose Wear.
The FreebieFinder asks for permission to take controls. If you want it to continue to work in no-script areas of SL, choose Yes.
It should display as a small HUD near the top of your screen. The radar icon is yellow to show that it is not currently scanning.
Decide what the search term will be. You only need the part of object name. Searching for "free" will find objects named "freebie" or "free hat", for example.
In local chat, type "/26 name SearchTerm" (example: "/26 name free")
The radar image on the HUD turns green, indicating that scanning has begun.
The FreebieFinder will search up to 96m, identify the 16 nearest objects and then check to see if their name begins with the search term you have identified. FreebieFinder remembers the name of the last item it reported to you, and will not report it again until it finds a different match. This is to revent it reporting the same item found over and over again.
To see the location of the most recently reported item displayed on the map, type "/26 show". Your map displays the location of the item. When you close the map, if you were more than 3 meters away from the object, the map beacon should remain on your screen, helping you find the item. Note that due to a limitation in the Second Life scripting engine, mapping may not be accurate above 1000m in altitude.
To pause scanning, click the HUD. The icon turns yellow to indicate that the FreebieFinder is not currently scanning.
To resume sanning, click the HUD again. The icon turns green to indicate the scanning has resumed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of the limitations of Second Life scripting, this only detects the nearest 16 items. In prim-heavy areas, you may need to be fairly close to the object in order to sense it.
Since FreebieFinder is a scanner, it contributes to script lag. When you are not hunting for freebies, it is polite to either pause scanning or detach the HUD.
Good luck, and enjoy.
This is great!!!
OMG THANK YOU!!! I lost this tiny item days ago and have been having a script error been popping up nonstop about the damn thing. Finally was able to find it! <3
by golly it works
this has helped me get close and therefore find many items. but still i miss some if they are mesh items. wish there was a gadget that made those hidden items glow.
great gadget
Why the low stars and whinges ? How hard is it to type into local :
"/26 name lostitem" ?
( or lost whatever) .fs honestly some people.
To reclaim found lost stuff rez a prim, sit on it, and set postion co ords X Y and Z to those given in the list. If its invisi - prims CTRL ALT and T will outline them in red. ( toggle it )
5 stars to the creator for an super gadget. 0 stars to reviewers who dont know what they are doing
I can't figure out how to use it :(
I've tried typing in the "/26" with a serach term and I just can't find what I'm looking for pulls up co ords of everything in the area.
i have no idea how this works ,but it does do something
well there is a notecard that seems very straight forward
but this is what it does
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found Belliana - Reception Table MESH at <128.68381, 208.89214, 21.33545>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found Belliana - Small Stuff - Donation Box at <128.17169, 208.89169, 22.58105>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found SCANDAL FASHIONS COVER ME WITH LACE EXCLUSIVE at <134.82925, 210.01439, 22.62680>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found SCANDAL FASHIONS GROUP JOINER Interface v5.0 at <127.73947, 208.80479, 22.77875>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found CasperVend2 Lucky Chair v2.10 - Modern (Mesh) at <130.34015, 213.84923, 22.42278>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found SCANDAL FASHIONS COVER ME WITH LACE EXCLUSIVE at <126.42539, 210.01213, 22.25426>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found CasperVend2 Lucky Chair v2.10 - Modern (Mesh) at <133.05618, 214.13774, 22.43106>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found CasperVend2 Midnight Madness v2.10 at <137.51463, 210.73753, 22.36252>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found CasperVend2 Lucky Chair v2.10 - Modern (Mesh) at <135.57446, 214.01921, 22.38011>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Found CasperVend2 Midnight Madness v2.10 at <137.51463, 212.17429, 22.36252>
[00:59] FreebieFinder 3.6: Searching paused. Click HUD again to resume.
[01:00] Midnight Madness: Thanks, but you're already in this contest!
[01:00] Midnight Madness: Thanks, you've been added to the contest!
[01:02] WandaWertheim: Found CasperVend2 Lucky Chair v2.10 - Modern (Mesh) at <133.05618, 214.13774, 22.43106>
you cant click on the things is tells you in chat
i will need to investigate how to get to those places,
ill ask at help group how to go to coordinates there must be a way
thank you for this gift !
i hope i will be able to understand how to walk to the coordinates and then get more gifts haha
brilliant dollarbie still works perfectly in 2016
Negative reviews ? Unbelievable ! This wonderful 5 star gadget has saved me and others an absolute fortune in lindens, and hours of time recovering lost items. Heres the craic :
1. The item comes as a tiny hud, not boxed. Just buy it and add to worn. A lil radar hud icon pops up in the viewer. Click it to stop / start scan. Its green when its scanning and its yellow when its not.
2. All input and output is to the owner only, in Local Chat. It uses channel 26.
3. When it finds the searched item it says co-ords in Local chat. Go there and find the item !
I have never used it in hunts btw. Here's what its done for me. Found my lost kittycat half a dozen times. Found a friends lost anipet dog in the bottom of a pond - them dogs cost 5 grand.
Today I used it to find a particular hair I wanted at the TRUTH hair emporium. That's a massive shop with hundreds of hairs to track through. So I typed in local "/26 name jersey" and just wondered around the store. After a short while it popped up in local with "FreebieFinder 3.6: Found TRUTH HAIR Jersey - BUY ALL at <87.71553, 142.58978, 34.55046>". So, ignoring everything after the dots, I walked to co ords <87, 142, 34> . There was the hair I'd searched ages for !