I'm having a tough time. I'm not one who usually shops, so I'm not sure where to look for small rental spots on the grid. I'm offering 50 L$ for each referral that I start renting. I have a few conditions though.
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I was running around the SS Galaxy Cruise Ship and saw a familiar sight. I inspected the object and sure enough, it had my name on it. My old, old street light. The oldest copy I have in my inventory is from June 2007. I made this when I was living in the south-west corner of Higgins. I'm running around different places to find some really cheap places to rent. I just need about 2-3 prims to setup a kiosk. So far the areas to setup don't look that great on the ship, but I'll keep looking.
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I thought I would setup a quick vendor system with JEVN. Problem is the vendors stop responding a bit too often when I start modifying them. I tried out hippoVEND, but the system requires textures to actually be in the servers. On top of that - it's all web based. Many wouldn't see that as a problem. My problem is that I already have all the data. It's very hard to sit down and import it all into web pages. With JEVN, I just create a web page to export all my data and JEVN loads it up quick. I still have a few ideas for JEVN. Maybe all hope is not lost just yet.
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I'm starting to work out how my vendors will appear. I'll have 10 thumbnail images displayed at once. Users click them to see the image in the center of the screen. Since I have more than 10 products, I'll offer the end-user a way to navigate through "pages" of products. The problem is that I think this will confuse a few people. I need to get this one just rite so it's pretty intuitive. Maybe I'll move all 10 images on the right and put the arrows directly under them. I tried hunting for some other vendors that did something similar, but haven't had much luck. I've incorporated a few solutions to problems I've had in the past such as renaming the vendor for each diplayed product.
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For starters, it looks like I was able to get a marketplace vendor setup. With the ability to display media on a prim, I was able to show each product's marketplace page. I was even able to go through and purchase an item on the market! For anyone without the media browser, they would only see a static image of the product (similar to how most vendors work in-world today). This vendor is only 3 prims. It uses touch based mapping to figure out if you want to go back, forward, or to my home page. The price tag at the top is 1 prim, but changes from 0 to 999,999 L$ as well as telling you what permissions the product offers. I still need to make this work for people without media enabled.
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I've got about half of my inventory into my database and have begun work on an actual web-based vendor. To cut down on the amount of data sent back and forth, I'm going setting both my individual entries and fields to be delimited with the same pattern. To parse that information in-world, I'm using something called strided lists. I haven't used them before and thought I would give it a go. I couldn't quite get the hang of them at first, but then I realized that I needed to chop off the first entry in my list before I could get the correct value in the second field for all my items. Chop off the first two for field 3, and so on. It would be ideal if this was easier to work with.
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I'm curious to see what light projections will bring. They seem like a hidden feature that will sneak up and astound everyone once people start mastering them. Shadows is ok - but light projections will add depth, atmosphere, and refined detail. I've updated my flashlights to use light projections. Due to the way that the prims are in front of my light with a transparent falloff for the "cone", I get something that really looks similar to how a flashlight lights up a wall in real life. The center is bright, then a ring of not-so-light and then a final ring around that falls into darkness.
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The owner of C&D Drag Racing Systems, zFaDarkness Yue contacted me regarding my countdown timers. We have formed a relationship that will enable my countdown timer logic be used within his drag racing system. The drag race product runs the length of an entire region at 256 meters long. The countdown logic will be part of a subsystem for a "brackets system". It will assist with drivers leaving a race to allow those left to win and let the racing events continue.
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I dropped into this store and was taken aback by the quality. The lighting, displays, music, and general feeling of the environment makes you feel as close to an actual store as possible. Just about every product is on display, or close to it. Easy to find areas by the signs hanging above for belts, apparel, boots, etc. Even the stores look pretty wild. The use of colored lighting in various places (while not overbearing) is perfect. They are only used to accent a product rather than drawing attention to the lights themselves. Once you remove lighting and shadows, the place looks washed out and empty. Amazing how much of an effect this feature has.
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I'm attempting to setup each product for display in my store. There are plenty of them, so I am concerned about my available resources. A few of these are pretty dated and could do with an upgrade to use less objects. Sculpties come to mind with quite a few of them. I've got some objects setup so that people can interact with them live to see how they work. I may have to do some research to see how other shops are setting up demonstrations.
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