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[.Shuggles.] Book Script FULL PERM Version 0.56

[.Shuggles.] Book Script FULL PERM
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The Book script flips the pages of a book or card on touch - from the first to the last
page and also backwards when you click on the already open pages. It contains a rotation
drift workaround, so that your pages remain in the same place. The book is usable by
everyone by default, but can be configured to be usable only for its group, the owner's
friends or just the owner, too. The script assumes the root prim of the book is its spine
and there's one prim for each page. You can have as many pages as you want. With just two
pages, you can create a card for season greetings, invitations, congratulations etc. The
package contains three example books.

To create your own book, make the spine of the book the root prim and put the script in
there. Then add your pages and name each of them according to their page number, e.g. "1"
for the first page, "2" for the second page and so on (without the quotes). Link them all
together with the spine and you have a working book. The pages all need to be oriented
the same, so it's best to create one and duplicate the others.

You can configure the flip axis and the offset of the pages center to the book's back
(the root prim) manually or let the script try to determine them automatically. For
automatic detection, set AXIS and OFFSETS to ZERO_VECTOR; if that doesn't work, please
configure them manually: AXIS usually should be <0, 0, 1> (standing upright), unless you
rotated the book's back; OFFSETS should have 0.5 or -0.5 as one coordinate (i.e. half the
page size), depending on page orientation, and the others have to be 0.0. You can also
adjust the OPEN_ANGLE of the book (in degrees) and whether it should OPEN_BOTH_SIDES or
only the front side.

If you want to use flexiprims for the pages, they need to rotate around their back in
order to swing in the right direction, so pages need to be rotated by 90° in Y direction,
and gravity (left column in the edit dialog) needs to be set to 0 - please see provided
Book Example 3. For how to attach a book as a HUD or create thinner pages, please see
Book Example 4, after an example provided by Remitent Curameyer - thanks a lot for that!
The required configs for both are included in the script (commented out).

You can also configure a sound and sound volume that is played when flipping pages. The
sound is preloaded when the book is rezzed, but if you want to keep it rezzed for others
to use, you might want to consider adding the Sound Preloader script which I also offer,
to preload sounds for nearby avatars.

It's also possible to attach the book and configure a holding animation. It must be in
the object's inventory or an SL internal animation. If empty, the first animation in
inventory is used. Default is "hold_r_handgun" which is an internal animation.

On first touch after the book or card was rezzed, it can optionally give a folder with
its contents (without scripts and the optional page flipping sound). So you can include
a landmark or notecard or a little gift which can be useful in an invitation or card.
This only works for the owner.

The Book script is full perm, so it can be adapted to your needs and requirements. It's
licensed under the BSD license with the addition that it must not be resold or otherwise
given away standalone in parts or as whole. It can be used in your creations as long as
these license conditions are met.
Please use the original scripts, keeping script name and creator intact, and remember to
change script permissions to copy or transfer only before you put your products on sale.

To update or redeliver a product, wear the included Updater and follow the instructions.
Store policies and info about custom scripting at my MP store and the inworld terminals.

See item in Second Life
  • Flips arbitrary number of pages
  • First to last page and last to first
  • Rotation drift workaround
  • Low lag, operated on touch
  • Full perm, BSD license
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Exellent!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted February 11, 2022 by LillyCraft

The script is very nicely made and the support was fast and correct! I will not hesitate to buy from this seller in the future. I just needed a little tweak and got help straight away.

Thank you!

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quality is pretty rare these days
full star full star full star full star full star Posted September 22, 2021 by Lumen Evergarden

I genuinely can't say enough great things about this script and its creator. The script is -beautiful- and clean, and when I needed a small emergency script modification for my Storytime event Shui was there to give me a solution in no time. I recommend checking out his other work as well — the in-world store is a lot more fun to browse than the MP.

As for the script itself, I too had some trouble making my own book at first, until I took the example one apart and replicated it with my own prims. Did you know those "C" and "P" buttons to the right of the rotation/scale/position buttons in the Edit window actually mean "copy" and "paste"? You can pretty easily create your own exact copy of the original book that doesn't require you to adjust the numerical values at all.

If you buy it and you like using it, leave a fair review. Thank you, Shui! I'm a loyal customer now.

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Yay!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted December 24, 2020 by FangXiLi Xue

Glad i finally found the ONE and ONLY flip-page script on MP!
For everyone with issues how to make this, it took me a while to make it work, but the form of the back side of the book is most important: make sure you take a cylinder form and use path cut to make it a Hemicylinder: this is most important to make it work!
I rezzed the example book and rebuild each part exactly like the example, only that makes it work!
If anyone likes an example or instructions in-world, hit me up, im glad to help, especially when frustrated (i was a little frustrated too) \o/ so happy now :) big thank you to the seller! <3

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Easy to build inworld a book!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted March 12, 2017 by Katharina Infinity

Many Thanks for this great Set - it is easy to build a book inworld in Second Life. I make it for a child as a gift and i think she will be very happy!

5 honest stars for this Product!

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strange effects
full star empty star empty star empty star empty star Posted April 01, 2016 by Madelon Siamendes

The sample book is uge, and stands. Building your own, with smaller pages, or lay down to put on a table, gives the most strange effects (pages fliping down, etc). Basically, the only way it works is when you go for the sample book. Changing script didnt accomplish anything to me.
The book is not well made. Flipping a page makes it stick out. Not worth the 149L$

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То что я искала
full star full star full star full star empty star Posted August 17, 2014 by RusHelen

Это именно то, что я искала. Единственное, что тяжело разобраться в этом.

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