Holiday Advent Calendar Version 1.2

An Advent calendar is a special calendar used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar for a description of its history and traditional use.

NOTE: The Holiday Advent Calendar is configured with 25 days and is intended to be used starting on December 1, 2023 and ending on Christmas, December 25, 2023. It can also be used in any subsequent year by changing the StartDate on the !AC Config notecard. If you want to create a custom gift giving calendar for other holidays or events that can have any number of days starting on any date, check out my customizable Gift Giver Calendar (creator version).

Unlike many other calendars that have a lot of prims, moving drawers, etc., this Advent Calendar has a Land Impact of only two (2). It uses TouchPoint technology to detect the day number that was touched so separate prims for each day are not needed.

This version of the Advent Calender is easy to setup, yet is flexible:

1. Enter your email address and starting calendar date on the Config notecard. You can set Day 1 on the calendar to be any RL date (in SLT time zone), however the number of days and positions on the calendar texture are specific to the Christmas Holiday and cannot be changed on this version.

2. There are a few other optional settings you can change if you want to, but the default settings will work in most cases.

3. Drop in your gift items (not included) for each day.

That's it!

For a general purpose Gift Giver Calendar that can be customized by the owner, please check out my Gift Giver Calendar. Both versions can be a fun and effective way to keep people coming back to your store or venue again and again.

Key Features and Functions
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- Gives toucher a gift associated with the day number touched.
- Uses TouchPoint areas rather than separate prims for each day to minimize land impact (Li of 2).
- First day of calendar can be any specified real world date (SLT). Default is 2023-12-01.
- Option to give gift only when the current day is touched, or when any day except a future day is touched.
- Log can hold up to 200 avatar records.
- Logs avatar names, number of gifts they were given and number of times any day was touched.
- Tracks and reports current day and cumulative long term statistics.
- Automatically emails a log report and clears daily log at midnight SLT.
- Sends a log report (summary or detailed) to owner's private chat or email on demand.
- Option to restrict users to group members only, or allow anyone.
- Option to set a limit on the number of gifts taken per day per avatar.
- Option to specify gift item names or automatically associate gift items in alpha-numeric order with days on calendar.
- Option to play default or owner specified sounds when a gift is given or not given.
- Calendar object is mod/copy. Scripts are copy only.

There is also general purpose Gift Giver Calendar (sold separately) that has the following additions to support custom calendar designs.
- Enables owner to specify coordinates of TouchPoint areas for their own calendar textures.
- Enables owner to specify the link number and one or more face numbers for the calendar's days.
- Includes TouchPoint Finder script to enable the owner to easily get the TouchPoint area coordinates for their custom textures.