I was hanging about on the marketplace when I noticed that "Be active ! Do some sport" banner, featuring a nice picture by Iozy Wasp showing a man holding a basket ball on his shoulder. And I thought : "Is it even possible to play basketball in SL ?".
I did some research and only found very few basketball games, which didn't look so convincing... Then I felt SL was missing something and I decided to make my own basketball game.
So, presenting the Ethereallusions Instant Basketball HUD !
This HUD provides everything you need to play basketball. You can play on your own (practicing and improving your skills) or with others that also purchased the HUD.
This is how it lets you play basketball (with nice animations !).
- You can rez a BOARD, or a whole COURT (classic or street style).
- You can DRIBBLE : touch the basket ball picture on the HUD, thus taking the chance that the ball is snatched from you by your opponent.
- You can SNATCH the ball from a dribbling opponent : once your avatar is close enough, click in mouselook to get a 1/5 probability to succeed ; you can increase the odds to 1/2 by holding the left mouse button up to 4 seconds before releasing it.
- You can DRIBBLE SAFE : hold the C/page down key while dribbling ; you'll then dribble faster and closer to the floor, preventing an opponent from snatching the ball, though you can't walk or run while doing so.
- You can SHOOT the ball in mouselook : the longer you hold left mouse button (up to 5 seconds) before releasing it, the more powerful is the shot) !
- You can PASS the ball : either in mouselook or not, just press A (or whatever key you bound to the modifiable pass gesture available from the info button of the HUD).
- You can do a LAY UP : just jump while holding the ball ; make sure you're close enough to the basket !
- You can SLAM DUNK ; two ways : 1) in third person view, if you' happen to be in possession of the ball, running and close enough to the basket, it will then get 'highlighted' to let you know you can touch it to dunk ;
2) (requires RLV enabled) either in mouselook or not, if you happen to be in possession of the ball, running and close enough to the basket, you can trigger the secondary dunk by just pressing the space bar (or whatever key you bound to the modifiable dunk gesture available from the info button of the HUD).
- You can BLOCK a dunk or a shot : just jump (while you're not in possession of the ball) to try and intercept a shot or to get a 1/2 probability to block a dunk if you're close enough to the dunker and execute the move with the right timing (during the 1 second it takes to score that way).
You need to be aware that the Ethereallusions Instand Basketball HUD works much better in no lag areas, because of all the interactions it relies on. For instance, a laggy place can make it so a collision is reacted to seconds after it happened.
[ Changelog
Version 1.6 :
- now experience compatible to let you turn the HUD on easier and faster (experience name : "Ethereallusions" without the quotes) ;
- turning the HUD off no longer leaves copies of the ball in your inventory.
Version 1.5 :
- for some reason, lsl LMB now includes ML LMB ; to avoid the conflict between passing and shooting, passing is now only affected to the gesture.
Version 1.4 :
- added a secondary dunk ability using a gesture (requires RLV enabled) ;
- added the ability to pass the ball using a gesture ;
- added an arch to the trajectory of the shot ball so you just need to aim at the basket ;
- re-enabled the LEFT & RIGHT default strafing keys.
Version 1.3 :
- added ability to pass the ball in mouselook by pressing the LEFT directional key ;
- added ability to start/stop dribbling in mouselook by pressing the RIGHT directional key.
Version 1.2 :
- set the shot power load (LMB holding) twice faster ;
- added a gauge meter to make it easier to control the power load when shooting ;
- included a practice version of the HUD so multiple players can have the ball at the same time.
Version 1.1 :
- set modification rights for both the classic and street courts ;
- changed the group link to the new HUD users group, Ethereallusions Basketball League.
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I love what you made, Just need a little bit more work.
So after like 10-15 minutes, I firstly noticed a bug where if you dunk the ball, and catch with your dunking button still being held, the ball grab button on the HUD spams itself until you reattach the HUD back on. Also, I don't know if I'm just bad or if it's actually impossible to get a shot, I notice a red indicator for dunking the ball shows on the hoop so not sure if I should be seeing that when I also try shooting. Other than those two things. I honestly REALLY like what you made here, even if I don't have a friend on that can play with me, still just nice and somewhat relaxing to play on my own. I hope you keep updating and adding on to it, keep up the awesome work!
Great but needs a team mode
Bought this as I had been trying to find a playable basketball for a sports hall in the sim where I admin. Works great as a solo game but requires other players to purchase their own hud. Would like to see an option for other players to join in wit ha temporary attach hud to allow multiple players.
As a solo or if you have friends willing to drop L$500 to play basketball in world, then this is great, but just misses on that 5th star. Perhaps an update to allow temporary attach huds for other players?
