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Sailing is a very enjoyable activity in SL, but for various reasons we sometimes get separated from our boats. Install the DMS Boat Locator! Receive notifications in local chat with click-able teleport links to your boat’s location should you ever be separated from your boat again!
Not only that, it can also show you if your guests are still on board too by scanning around the boat and sending you the list of avatars near it!
Have you ever experienced a sim crossing when out with friends where you clearly were not on board but your guests could see you sitting on the boat with them? The DMS Locator can even relay local chat from your boat back to you when it detects you are having a bad crossing.! This means you miss little of the conversation your friends still think they are having with you.
Powerful options indeed. when does it do this?
When you rez your boat the current sim is registered as the home sim by default. You can reset this through the DMS Locator's menu.
When the boat is NOT in its home sim AND it detects that you are not in the same sim, it will do everything it can to send you click-able teleport links through chat messages.
Optionally and configurable in the DMS Locator's menu, you can tell it to also send a list of avatars or even relay local chat back to you as well.
The DMS locator will act more aggressive when your vessel is on the move! It will send more updates when it's position changes, and immediate updates when it crosses a sim border. (as long as the owner is not in the same sim)
The default frequency of updates is set to 30 seconds. The DMS Locator will send you a message every 30 seconds 3 times, after that it will double the delay every time. 60, 120, 240, 480, etc.
It will keep tabs on your online status and stop sending when it detects you are offline.
Although scripts can have a random and pretty long delay of detecting online status, I still use it to try and detect if you might have missed the messages, and send a location report when you come back online.
This intelligent script uses many tricks to let you know of its whereabouts and puts you back in control.This means it is aggressive when it needs to be, but will make you forget it is even installed when you don't need it.
It usually does not need any configuration, the default options are the home sim it is rezzed in and it will scan around the boat. The chat relay option is disabled by default.
To change some options, or obtain script updates, you can activate the included gesture hot-key so you can hit CTRL L to trigger the menu system of your DMS Locator. This new hot-key will quickly say /123 locator in local chat for you. Typing "/123 loc" in local manually will also work.
As with all DMS products, free updates can be obtained straight through the menu of the DMS Locator itself. Updating is as easy as dropping a new script on top of your vessel. It will remove any other versions for you, there is never a need to open the contents tab of your vessel.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me.
Trail Lauridsen / Will Welles.
See item in Second Life- Puts you back in control when seperated from your vessel.
- Scans around and tells you if your guests are still there.
- Can send local chat so you don't miss much of the ongoing conversation.
- Lightweight - Only one single script.
- Easy drag and drop installation.
Great Locator and Support
I use this locator on one of my other boats, but they didn't have one for the TMS Falcon Class because it's a new release. I asked them to make one, and the designers did in short order, and were very nice. Works well, and very helpful when you crash and lose your boat. Just TP back to the area continue sailing.
