*************** WARNING ******************
While working perfectly with my last generation Lelutka head, the new HUD is NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CATWA heads for the time being (investigating it). So this pack ALSO INCLUDES the original Oak Swim hud with some new animations.
**********************************************
My dear customers, I wanted to thank you for being so many to enjoy my swimming animations. That's why, even if the price was increased (according to the hardwork put into this item), you can of course get this brand new version for free.
And here come some big changes !
The Oak Swim hud I've been using to sell my animations in (huge thanks to its creator) is a great HUD ; but it relies on quite a complex script mainly designed to allow us to use our own swimming animations in a standardized way. You can hardly customize it further than how it is supposed to work.
However, some of my friends and customers started to ask for more options, such as dedicated animations to swim backwards or on sides. So, to make it happen, I had to write my own script from zero ; which required some time...
... I did it listening to Prince : "Something in the water (does not compute)" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKEMFWFxerk&list=PL4t-MPJv9Hwi59dvxWI6na_N9dsLMuTWD&index=3)
Now here it is ! So what's new ?
1) I made some new high quality animations : treading water (even more realistic than the former one), treading underwater (a different one from the "treading water", that looks better under water), swimming back (improved too), crawling on back, swimming left/right, floating on back.
2) Second, I made it so you can swim in an intuitive way, without touching the HUD but just to set in on/off. This is how it works :
-> If you are breaststroking, press FORWARD key a second time to crawl and swim faster ; which imitates a bit the 'run' command.
-> If you are swimming back at the surface, press BACKWARD key a second time to crawl on your back.
-> When at the surface, double press UP key to float on your back.
The transitions of course remain very smooth and you can now swim in a very natural way.
________________________
About my animations in the Oak Swim hud...
I wasn't happy with the swim animations I could find on the market, so I decided to use my animating skills to make my own.
I use them with the awesome Oak Swim Hud (marketplace link : https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Thors-Oak-Swim-Animations-Test-Version-with-HUD/3308143), the creator of which, Edd Thor, kindly granted me the permission to distribute his freebie creation along with my animations.
You should give them a try for they look more realistic than any other I've seen so far.
The animations are :
- swimming forward : breaststroke
- swimming forward : crawl
- swimming still
- swimming forward underwater
- swimming down underwater
- swimming up underwater
[ Changelog
Version 1.1 :
- added a moderate bubbles effect when swimming underwater.
]
Easy to use
Very easy to use this HUD. Animations are very detailed & accurate. Worth the price. Thanks!
Functional Swim Hud
This is an awesome and easy to use swim hud. I would choose this hud over any other swim huds. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work.
i realy like it
the animations look very natural the movment is fluid and smoth as it should be when you glide true water
Excellent
Love this swimmer for the price. Nice animations and smooth transitions. Not a ton of extra swims...just the basics, but I prefer the simplicity over many complicated swims. Only things that would improve it would be a way to minimize the hud a bit and also a back float.
Best swimming animations I've seen in SL !
The HUD is very simple, not the best you can find in SL, but those swimming animations just rock ; to me, they're the first one that make you look like you're actually swimming ; so natural !
