Greeting Advisor HUD Version 1.8.12

Product Description
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During busy times in clubs, concerts, venues and events, hosts and hostesses may have a difficult time remembering who they have and have not greeted. The purpose of the Greeting Advisor HUD is to assist them in performing this duty. The HUD keeps track of who is currently present and whether or not the HUD owner has chatted a greeting key word to them. At any time, the HUD owner can ask the HUD for a list of currently present avatars that have or have not been greeted. This enables the host/hostess to issue personalized greetings.

The Greeting Advisor HUD can also automatically send randomized greeting messages you specify to avatars as they arrive or that have not yet been greeted. You can include their display name and/or their user name in the messages. You can send in public or private chat, or disable auto greetings entirely. This gives you the flexibility to either send greetings manually for a personal touch, or send them automatically to reduce your workload. The capability to send randomized auto greeting messages makes them look less "canned".

The Greeting Advisor HUD can also monitor local chat for messages for specific terms (e.g. owner's name and/or other key words). When found in a public chat message not sent by the HUD owner, the HUD will play an alert sound that will be heard only by the HUD owner. This can be helpful to a host/hostess in a busy venue by alerting them to public chat messages that may be of interest to them.

Permissions
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HUD: Modify, Copy, No-Transfer
Scripts: No-Modify, Copy, No-Transfer

Setup
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Setting up the Greeting Advisor HUD is a simple process. Just edit the Greeting Advisor Config notecard to specify your preferences

Setup parameters:

MonitoredArea=Desired area to monitor. It can be either PARCEL or REGION

MonitorRate=Rate at which monitored area will be scanned for avatars.

MaxRange=Range (meters) beyond which avatars will not be detected. Range is limited to specified monitored area.

KeepDelay=Time delay (seconds) after last area check before departed avatars will be removed from greeted / not greeted list. Prevents need to re-greet avatars who leave and return within a short time period.

Greeting=Greeting key words or phases, any of which must be included in greeting message sent by host/hostess in local chat (e.g. Hello, Greetings, Hi, Welcome, etc.). If left blank, all host/hostess messages will be scanned for names.

AutoGreet=DISABLED, PUBLIC, PRIVATE or OWNER. Automatic greetings are selected randomly from an Auto Greetings notecard.

AlertOwnerTerms=Comma separated list of terms that will cause a sound to be played if any of the terms appear in a public chat message not sent by the HUD owner.

ListFormat=Set format of avatar list. FULL for one line per avatar or CSV for all avatars on one line. Can also change via HUD button.

CSVNameType=For CSV format, specifies either user names or display names.

IgnoreAvatars=List of avatars (uuid's or legacy names or display names), separated by commas, that will be ignored. Used primarily to ignore staff member or performers who do not need to be greeted. HUD owner is always ignored.

Operation
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While wearing the HUD, you greet avatars via local chat messages as normal. Include at least one of the specified greeting words or phrases and the avatar's name in the chat message. You can use either the legacy name or display name. Greetings and names are NOT case sensitive.

As new avatars enter the monitored area, they are added to the "Not Greeted" list. When you send a local chat message containing any of the specified greeting words or phrases and an avatar's name (e.g. Hello Fred), that avatar is moved from the "Not Greeted" to the "Greeted" list. Avatars not currently in the monitored region are removed from both lists.

For legacy names you can use the full name or just the first or last name (e.g. "Hello Fred Allandale" or "Hello Fred" or "Hello Mr. Allandale" will match "Fred Allandale"). You do NOT need to add "Resident". Do NOT use quotes. Do NOT put a period between names (not fred.allandale). When a legacy name is made up of a first and last names, they must be separated by a space.

For display names you can use first, last or any middle name as long as they are separated by a space (e.g. "Hello Sarah" or "Hello Jessica" or "Hello Ms. Parker" will match "Sarah Jessica Parker").

You can greet more than one avatar in a single message if you want to ("Hello Fred and Sarah" will mark both "Fred Allandale" and "Sarah Jessica Parker" as greeted. You will get a warning message in private chat when this happens in case that is not what you intended.

At any time you can select "Show Not Greeted", "Show Greeted", or "Show All" on the HUD to get the corresponding list in your private chat.

• HUD for hosts and hostesses
• Advises who you did and did not greet.
• Monitors parcel or entire region optionally limited to specified range
• Owner can specify any greeting words or phrases
• Includes auto greet option