Front Of The Line -, let’s call it FTL\u00a0for short\u00a0– is your ticket into busy sims. \u00a0Just add the landmark to the location you want to visit and FTL\u00a0will try repeatedly to get you there. \u00a0I originally wrote FTL’s ancestor many moons ago when Truth Hair was having a huge sale and pretty much every avatar with a head was trying to get in there. \u00a0I spent about 20 minutes double clicking the LM then “ding! – The region you are trying to enter is full”, then double click, “ding!”, double click, “ding!”. \u00a0So. Very. Tedious.<\/p>\n
So I scribbled together a RLV script that force TPed me every 10 seconds till I got there. \u00a0It worked great and I loaded up on inexpensive Truth hair and was happy as could be. \u00a0I still use it at least once a month to get into Collabor88 and Hair Fair – anywhere that I want to go that’s really busy.<\/p>\n
Say… \u00a0Does this sound sort of familiar to anyone else? \u00a0Sort of like… \u00a0I don’t know… \u00a0Perhaps this: CheshireSoft Let Me In HUD<\/a>. \u00a0As it turns out I wasn’t the only one to think of this, It just never occurred to me that anyone else would want it – because clearly no one but me wanted to get to those crowded sims.<\/p>\n Sometimes I’m just such a boob.<\/p>\n I read about the Let Me In HUD on the New World Notes\u00a0blog and did the appropriate “I could’a had a V8” face palm, but one of my personal rules about things that I’m going to try and sell is that I don’t want to duplicate an existing product\u00a0unless I can\u00a0add significantly to what it already does. So I\u00a0went on my merry way making my other gadgets and gizmos until a couple of weeks ago when for some reason I decided I wanted to play with a little something the folks down at the lab call llTeleportAgent <\/strong>– cause that’s its name\u00a0– which is\u00a0the LSL function used by a scripted object to teleport someone to a landmark.<\/p>\n So with that I had a HUD that does the TPing without RLV – shocking isn’t it? \u00a0A Mina gizmo not using RLV? Whatever is the world coming to? \u00a0I also added:<\/p>\n So with all that I started to think that I’d fulfilled my “add significantly to what it already does” clause. \u00a0Then I noticed that the MP listing for the Let Me In HUD starts out with:<\/p>\n **NOTE: I am on permanent vacation from SL. Products come as-is with no support. Sorry!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n So with all of that – plus posting the link for the Let Me In HUD MP listing – I’ve soothed\u00a0my conscience and can get on with explaining how FTL\u00a0does\u00a0what it\u00a0does. \u00a0Thankfully that part’s much shorter since it’s pretty simple and I use lots of screen caps.<\/p>\n Start out as you might imagine by wearing the FTL HUD. \u00a0It’s got to be worn as a HUD but can go on any HUD attachment point. \u00a0Once it’s situated you’ll get a permissions request like this one:<\/p>\n For security reasons any scripted object that’s going to teleport you has to request permission. \u00a0You’ll only see this when you wear the HUD, or if you’re wearing it when you log in. \u00a0The\u00a0Act on your control inputs<\/strong> part happens in lots of devices but you don’t normally see it because it’s usually automatically granted to any scripted object that you’re wearing or sitting on. \u00a0Since the teleport request is generating the permissions pop up the control request is appearing in there as well.<\/p>\n Answer\u00a0Yes<\/strong> else the HUD will do nothing but look pretty \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Now let’s add some destinations. \u00a0You can do this either by editing the HUD and dropping the landmarks\u00a0you want to use into it, or you can select the landmarks in your inventory, press and hold your computer’s Control key, and drag and drop the landmarks onto the HUD.<\/p>\n When you’re ready to do somewhere just click the green button. \u00a0As long as there’s at least one landmark in the HUD you’ll get a pop up menu something like this:<\/p>\n Pick your destination and let FTL\u00a0get to work. \u00a0If you want to cancel the process just click the now red button and FTL goes back to standby mode.<\/p>\n The FTLHUD only has a few options:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nerdy digression alert! \u00a0<\/strong>Each time you try to teleport and fail your viewer generates a pop up telling you that the teleport failed. \u00a0This pop up is what’s known as a “modal” meaning that until you dismiss it by clicking okay<\/strong> you can’t do anything else in the viewer. \u00a0Normally when you have a teleport fail you’ve just done something to initiate the teleport so it’s not a big deal, but if you’re using the FTL HUD to try and get into a packed sim these modal pop ups will start to pile up in the center of your screen – it’s a viewer requirement so there’s no way to stop it from happening.<\/p>\n Once you arrive at your destination you may have quite a few of them – trying to get into Collabor88 on the 8th of the month is a great way to see what I mean – and you’ll need to dismiss all of them by clicking the o<\/strong>kay<\/strong> button. \u00a0A lot. \u00a0In fact if you’re anything like me after the third one your brain will wander off and your finger will take over click click clicking without any regard for what’s actually being clicked. \u00a0The click shield gives you a barrier to keep you from clicking the last of the popups, followed by rapidly clicking on whatever is in the background.<\/p>\n Once you’ve cleared the pop ups you can untick the Click Shield option and it will hide itself.<\/p>\n For some reason the llTeleportAgent<\/strong> command isn’t smart enough to register a failed teleport command and so it just assumes it worked every time. \u00a0This means that you’ll get a bunch of “You have been teleported by an attachment on…”\u00a0messages in your notifications queue – the little box where\u00a0group messages are listed.<\/p>\n And that’s the Front Of The Line\u00a0HUD. \u00a0You can pick one up in my shop on Orbitalis<\/a>\u00a0– careful there’s adult stuff there. \u00a0It’s also in my Marketplace shop<\/a>\u00a0and my vendors around SL. \u00a0If you have any questions or run into any problems please feel free to drop me an IM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So originally I called this the “G’wan, Git!” HUD because I suck more than any other five people on earth combined when it comes to naming things. \u00a0Then my friend Pet threatened to murder me and suggested the much better name “Front Of The Line” so that’s what I’m calling it now. 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<\/a>Happily these aren’t like the teleport failure pop up and don’t interfere with anything. \u00a0In most – probably all – viewers you can wipe the contents of the notification queue by right clicking it and selecting close all<\/strong>:<\/p>\n![\"Close](\"http:\/\/diabolicalsuperscience.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Close-All.png\")
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