DSS Horsey

Sometimes you just want to build something simple.

Then you realize that you’re me, and no matter how simple a thing looks you just have to cram it full of spiffy features.  Case in point the new DSS Horsey:

Let’s get the simple stuff out of the way first, shall we?

Using The DSS Horsey

Like all my gadgets I’ve tried to make the menu system as simple as possible:

If this is your Horsey you’ll also see a [Settings] button but I’ll save that for later.  For now you’ve got these options:

	Scans the surrounding area for potential captives – that is anyone with an active relay except the person clicking the scan button. For that we have…
	Clicking this will cause the Horsey to try and grab you. If it’s able to do so it will set a random timer and hold you in its not so gentle grasp till then. And no, of course you can’t see the timer 🙂
	Exactly what it says.  Clicking this closes the menu and releases the script resources in use.

Once you’ve got a captive the menu options change to something like this:

	Releases the captive and removes all RLV restrictions.
	This opens a secondary menu where you can set a delayed release to free your captive after you’ve made good your escape.
	This button is only available to the owner of the Horsey, so if that’s not you, you didn’t see this so…  Never mind I guess? On the other hand if you DO see it, clicking it saves the device’s current adjustments so there’s no need to fiddle with them in the future. *** Note, this sets the default positions.  The personal settings – which I’ll babble about in a moment, are independent of this.
	Closes the menu pop up.

Adjusting the Horsey

Here’s where I traditionally point out that 5’9″ – or 173 cm for the metrically inclined – is not short anywhere else in the world but SL, but since the Horsey doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world except SL, and since I build everything around myself, and since my SL self is 5’9″, this is where I explain how to use my resizing system.

Luckily it’s WAY simpler to understand than that last sentence 🙂

Once someone is securely attached to the Horsey you can adjust the various prims by clicking on anything other than the base.  Clicking the base will activate the Captive Menu,  clicking the other pieces will give you a bunch of arrows:

Click and hold on any of the arrows to adjust that par in that direction.  Easy peasy, right?

The captive can also adjust his or her position up and down by pressing the Page Up or Page Down keys on their keyboard.  They can slide forward or back by pressing the cursor up for forward – just like walking – and down for back.

Say, here’s a neat thing.  The Horsey will save those changes to an external database that I maintain.  This means that whenever you sit on any Horsey anywhere in SL it will check to see if you’ve every used one before and if so what adjustments you made, and apply those adjustments to that Horsey.  Anywhere in SL.  Regardless of who owns the Horsey.

Neat huh?

If you’ve changed your shape or want to fine tune some, go ahead.  The Horsey will automatically update the database on its own, you don’t need to do a thing.

Settings

Told’ja we’d get here 🙂

	These buttons allow the owner to control who can use the Horsey’s menu.  Access level has no effect on who can be caught by the device, simply who can open the menu to use it.  The options are: Public  – Anyone can operate the main menu. Group – Only members of the same group to which the Horsey belongs can operate the main menu. Owner – meaning only the Horsey’s owner can access the menus.
	You might recall the [Self Bondage] button on the main screen – the one that tries to grab the person clicking it and bind them for a random amount of time? Well the [Self Bondage] button in the [Settings] menu is how you can limit that random amount of time. Clicking this opens a secondary timer menu which you can use to set the maximum amount of time for the self bondage timer. The actual time will still be randomly set some time between 1 minute and whatever this value is set to.
	Set the maximum range the Horsey will look for potential captives.
	Saves the current position of all of the prims as the default. When a captive is released, or the [Reset] button is pressed the prims will all return to this position.
	Resets all of the scripts in the Horsey.
	Returns to the main menu.
	Closes the menu pop up.  I’m nothing if not consistent 🙂