Dream Cloud Demo

The Dream Cloud

To walk among the stars, the clouds of soft dreams... to float endlessly over the tides of all the world, Ever wondered? well now, not only can you accomplish this, but you can bring up to seventy people with you!!!! And you can dance, sit, or explore second life in a unique way. Or maybe hold meetings in the most spectacular fashion... Watch the races, watch the scenery, over see your sim in comfort... gather your family and take them on a cruise among the clouds, what is Your dream ?.. its a dream cloud

The only difference to the full version is that the demo is not modifiable and that she only accepts 4 avatars.

The footprint of The Dream Cloud is 64x32x24m. You will need some elbow room when rezzing her.
Once rezzed, she'll read the sit positions and animation definitions from an internal script. It will take just a few seconds.

On boarding, she assigns the first free seat. For the owner, this is the helm, for everyone else, default seating is from front to back. Seats can be changed simply by touching the desired seat or the floor for standing positions. On boarding and changing seats, a menu with the available poses is displayed.

*** IMPORTANT ***
Do NOT press 'Stand' unless you want to leave the ship.

To start the engines and switch her to physical state, say 'start' in chat. 'stop' gets her back to non-physical state.

The arrow keys steer her in direction and altitude.
Altutude mode is activated with 'alt ???' or '*???' (???=altitude in metres). The datum point is the root prim in the cabin floor.
Heading mode is activated with 'hdg ???' or '+???' (???=heading in degrees).
Using the arrow keys deactivates those modes.

Page Up/Down sets the engines. There are 10 steps forward, 8 astern. The maximum speed is 25 knots.

The command 'wait' let's her stop at sim borders. To continue use 'cont'.

Touching the folding doors opens and closes them.

To open the stern ramp, say 'ramp open' (has to be shouted from the front of the ship.) This lowers the ramp to be in line with the cabin deck.
'ramp ??' (??=angle in degrees) lowers the ramp beyond that, 'ramp down' lowers it to it's maximum of 25 degrees.
'ramp close' closes the stern ramp.

The dancefloor can be used with a third party dance HUD. For this, select a stand position and let the dance machine animate you.

For personalization, all faces can be re-textured and additional prims linked in. After linking in new prims, reset the scripts, since linknumbers will have changed and the scripts need to re-read them.
Don't forget to take copies often (the SL counterpart to saving.)

A word about crossing sim borders:
I've spent a lot of time analyzing 'Border Incidents' and did my best to prevent them and to minimize the effects of those that happen anyways. Crossing borders at speed is not an issue. However, the more sims that are passed through in a short time, the more likely it becomes. When the owner gets missing, be it a border incident or (as has happened to me) by hitting the home button by accident, the ship will stop and wait for the return. If there's nobody left aboard, she is subject to autoreturn. Which, depending on the parcel settings, might happen instantly.
Keep an eye open for the sim ahead. When the sim does not rez and the minimap doesn't show a name when hovering the mouse over it, do not cross the border. while more often than not, such border incidents are recoverable, sometimes it just takes too long and you'll get disconnected.
The 'wait' and 'cont' commands are there to help with that.

Peregreena, February 2017