JamesT multi texture Bed Set

This is a low cost, 10 prim bed set (8 +2 for animations).

The set consists of
Bed, 5 pillows, 1 blanket, 1 Mattress
9 wood textures for bed
6 fabric textures for bedding
35 couple animations.

The set has modify,copy permission. Change size and create as many copies as you want..

The bed itself is a 1 prim sculpt item.
The sculpt has been carefully designed with LOD (level of detail) and bounding box in mind.
Many scultps distort within a small viewing distance.
This does not. It looks good at both LOD3 and LOD2.
Few builders work around this issue by creating a large bounding box.
This makes it hard to move your avatar around them
A nuisance in small place.
Here the bounding box has been kept to the minimum.

The animations are managed by the versatile MLPV2.4u script.
See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MLPV2 for details.

Below are instructions on using this bed set.

On rezzing, the bed takes few minutes to load everything.
Load status is displayed in chat.
Ready is displayed when it is done.

a)Changing texture

To change bedding texture
- click mattress
- click 'TEXTURE' button in the menu displayed
- click one of the 6 fabric textures in the "TEXTURE" menu

To change bed texture
- click bed
- click one of the 9 wood textures in the menu

b) Rolling down the blanket
Click blanket to roll it down or roll it up.

b)Playing animations

- click mattress to get a menu with six animation groups
- click one of the group to get a menu with a list of anims in that group
- click one of the anims
Two pose balls, blue (male) and pink (female), will appear
- right click a ball and choose "sit" to get on the ball
click yes when prompted for animation permission
Ask your partner to do the same with the other ball
The animation would start in a few seconds
Swap position with your partner anytime by clicking the SWAP button
To switch to another animation just click another animation

c)Stopping animations

- click STAND in the menu
This will move both of you to front of the bed, in a standing cuddle position
- click STOP to stop and get out of the animation

d)Adjusting position

Few of the animation positions may not suit you or your partner.
To adjust either of your postion,
- click mattress, without stopping animation or getting off pose ball
- click "OPTIONS" to get "OPTION" menu
- click Z buttons to just adjust height
Z- lowers and Z+ raises you and your partner
- click "Adjust Pos" for more adjustments
Two semi transparent beams, blue and pink, will appear on Male and Female avatar
- Right click any beam and choose "Edit". You will now be able to change the postion/rotation of the bean like any other prim
As you adjust the beam the avatar will move along with it
- After adjusting click the "Save Pos" button (IMPORTANT) to save the postion in memory.

The new postion will be lost if you take the bed into your inventory or click the shutdown button.
To save the positions permanently
- click the "Mem dump" button in the "OPTIONS' menu
This will write out all the positions in chat
- Open the chat window and copy all the postion lines - they start with ":"
- Replace all lines in .POSITIONS file with the new ones.
For .POSITIONS file right click bed, choose Edit and see in Content tab
See tutorial at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MLPV2

e)Changing permissions.

To control who can sit on the pose balls or operate the menu.
- click mattress
- click OPTIONS to get OPTIONS menu
- click "BallUsers" to restrict who can sit on the ball
You have two choices - "GROUP" or "ALL". "GROUP" allows only members of your active group, "ALL" allows everybody
Clicking the "BalUsers" switches permission between the two
The choice is displayed in the chat window
- click "MenuUsers" to restrict who can operate the menu. Here there are three choices "OWNER", "GROUP","ALL"

f)Turn off chat.

Every time you click a menu button the script prints out information in chat.
To stop this.
- Click mattress
- Click "OPTIONS" menu
- Click "Chat Info" button in the "OPTION" menu

g)Reseting the bed

Use this if the bed starts behaving erratically or you have changed the .POSITIONS or .MENUITEMS file
- click mattress
- click "OPTIONS" button
- click "Shutdown" button
- click "Restart" or "Shutdown!" button
"Restart" will shut down the bed and start it up again, reloading everything.
"Shutdown!" will just shutdown the bed, Touch the bed to start it up again.

Hint:
To make your scultp items look better try the following
a) Goto Me>Preferences>Graphics>Mesh detail: objects Change to high
b) Goto "advanced" menu, then "Show Debug Setting" , find "RenderVolumeLODFactor" and change it to a high value like 3 or 4
If advance menu is not visible, press CTL-ALT-D to make it visible

Thank you for considering this bed set
Drop me a notecard if you need help

JamesT Glenwalker