AZ Mesh Butterfly & Firefly Cluster

The AZ Butterfly and Firefly Clusters are an essential bit of whimsy that bring joy to any landscape. This item is built to link into the AZ Complete Environment set, and respond to weather and seasons, but can also be used in any landscape. The butterfly texture is set to black and white to allow you to colour your butterflies to whatever makes you happy.

I hope you enjoy this new design and that it brings you as much joy as it does for me.
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+ INCLUDED IN THIS SET+ (builds are modify/copy, scripts are copy only)
AZ Butterfly Cluster - (3li) includes a controller and 4 butterflies
AZ Butterfly Firefly Cluster - (3li) includes a controller and 4 butterflies/fireflies
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+ INSTRUCTIONS +
Once you have rezzed the item, you simple click the control box for the following menu:

Menu Controls - butterflyOFF | butterflyON | butterflyAUTO
fireflyOFF | fireflyON | fireflyAUTO
owner | group | link | unlink | start | stop

AUTO - sets the butterflies/firefly cluster to respond to SL day/night cycle. Butterflies disappear at night and fireflies intermittently emit at night.

ON/OFF - turn the auto settings off and make the butterflies invisible or turn the butterflies or fireflies always on and will not respond to day night cycle.

ACCESS - when rezzed menu access defaults to owner only, to allow members of a group to access click and edit item and check that you have required group set in the "build" window. The click on controller choose group. Only the owner has access to change access, linking, or stopping or starting the build.

LINKING - the default setting when you rezz either version is to link/listen to the AZ Complete Environment Control or to other butterfly clusters rezzed nearby. If you do not wish for the butterflies/fireflies to be affected please click "unlink".

EDITING - the start and stop buttons have been added to allow you to stop all movement and animation and allow you to open the build menu and colour individual butterfly circles or to move them in the link build. You can add more or less butterflies to one build by rezzing several clusters, press stop, unlink in the build menu, move butterfly circles and relink them to the one controller. Please note the controller box that I suggest you move under the ground, must always be the last item to be linked (root prim) as it is the parent that controls the butterflies.

**If you shift copy a cluster the animation may stop due to a SL bug, simply click the menu to "Start".
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+ UNPACKING +
I would suggest opening the "build" menu prior to rezzing anything as this allows for easy initial placement. The control box is lower than the butterflies to allow you to move the box under the ground, edit to suit your situation.
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All new mesh designs are:
*100% Original Mesh
*Materials enabled
*Modify / Copy / NO TRANSFER
*Optimised scripts
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+ PLEASE NOTE +

PRIM / LI - when all items are linked together or to the controller prims li number will reduce due to prim accounting methods (setting physics in build menu for many linked items to none also reduces load)

RESIZING - mesh the results can be somewhat varied (very high counts can suddenly occur) so please use caution.

PHYSICS - where appropriate each build has a custom physics shape built in, therefore they should be kept as prim or none, not convex hull (under physics shape features in the build menu).

MATERIALS - are added in builds where they add value. If you do not like how they look or aren't able to turn the advanced materials settings on due to pc constraints then feel free to remove them from the texture tab in the build window "bumpiness" "shininess".

Enjoy your pretty butterflies.
Aarcher Zenovka
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Designer/Owner
AZ Emporium & AZ Camping Central