Tutorial - Sign Builder Kit Package –mini bulletin sign
By CraftMaster – Antique Arliss Date: 05/1/2009 email:highway120@gmail.com
This tutorial walks you through on the basic of building a bulletin sign inworld from the package you have purchased. The sign in this tutorial is also include as a template in your purchase package. Under the template folder, just rezz the object “bulletin” and give it a command “/321 bulletin replay=start” and it will demo the bulletin operation. Essentially you need to determine how many characters you want in the sign and how to link the prims together. In our example we will build a 25 characters sign in horizontal layout. You could probably build a 255 chars sign if the link process allow it. The Sign Builder package is sold with permission: modify/copy/transfer. The only exception is the script which is copy/transfer only. Step 1 Rezz the Control prim and the blank prim Open the purchased “Sign Builder kit, 1char”. Move the contents to your inventory. Look for the object labeled “control prim” and “blank prim”. Drag them from your inventory to floor to rezz them. The control prim is preloaded with 2 scripts: 1 char control script and replaymsg script. The blank prim is preloaded with 1 char Display script.
Step 2
Duplicate 25 blank prims
Layout the prim in horizontal format
25 prims
Step 3
Modified the control prim
Change the Y to 10, Z to 1 Change name form “control prim” to “bulletin”
y=10 z=1
Step 4
Change texture of control prim
Use the texture, metallic_bg7 included in your purchase package
Step 5
Use the control prim as the background
In this step just line up the 25 blank prims with the control prim.
control prim as the background
Step 6
Link the blank prims with the control prim
Starting linking from blank prim 25,24,23,….3,2,1 And the last one 0, the control prim which is also the background prim.
0
1 2 3 4 5 6
link 25,24,23,22,....3,2,1,0 Control prim - 0 last to link
First blank prim to link - 25
Step 7
Input lines of text
The mini bulletin can hold 5 lines of text. You can input any number of lines up to 5 lines of texts. For example: /321 bulletin line1=Holiday Sale 12/1-12/3 /321 bulletin line2=All Sales 50% Discount /321 bulletin line3=Daily from 9:00am-6:00pm /321 bulletin line4=No payment until 90 days /321 bulletin line5=Ask for Free movie ticket
Step 8
Start the bulletin sign
/321 bulletin replay=start To give it more contrast, lets change the color of characters to black by: /321 bulletin color=black The bulletin will cycle through the 5 lines of text continuously until it is stop by the following command: /321 bulletin replay=stop
Step 9
Difference between regular sign and the bulletin sign
The difference between the bulletin sign and the regular sign is the scripts cannot be removing from the mini bulletin sign. It requires the script to refresh the characters in every line it is displaying. On the other hand regular sign once finish, it does not require a refresh to display the character.