The Maverick 100M (100 Meters Wide) Monster Surfing Wave
It ain’t easy installing this wonderful little Second Life sports apparatus. Here’s what I had to deal with…I’m including the actual instructions:
WARNING…
– Using wave with decorations will shorten the waves run, and require a much larger area. We suggest for you not to use these waves unless you have a large area to accomidate.
Proper Wave Run…
– Make sure you have a minimum of 10M on either side of the wave.
– Make sure the wave rises at the beginning of its run, and falls nicely into the water at the end of its run.
– Make sure you leave enough space at the end of the run, so surfers don’t hit the beach or get caught. Read on for more…
Features…
* Adjustable Wave Speed, Height, Duration, Frequency & More.
* Wave visual appearance…..Colour, Glow & Alpha Interp. You can also choose the Shiny level.
* Waves automatically clean themselves up if touching land or stationary objects(non-physical).
* PusherName Options A&B.
* Status print out.
* Group&Owner Perms/Access.
Appearance/Visual…
* Simulation of wave swelling and crashing.
* Realistic wave/water sounds.
* Foaming particles.
* Realistic Texturing.
* Water decorations on front&back of wave. (only on +Decorations version)
Misc…
* Low lag scripting.
* Free Updates.
* Rezzer is fully controllable via menu.
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INTERACTING WITH THE REZZER
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You can interact with the Rezzer to tune your waves to your liking. This does not apply to non-owner users. Stand near the Rezzer and left-click it… this brings up a main menu with options.
*Some buttons lead to sub-menus.
*There are other buttons marked ‘<<‘ and ‘<‘
– << Takes you all the way back to the main menu
– < Takes you to the previous menu
* When you click certain buttons, you will be prompted to type in a value in local chat (Must be within 20M of rezzer).
For example, setting the speed of the wave (Settings…/ Speed) brings up a dialog telling you what
the current setting is along with the minimum and maximum values this setting can have.
*** Feel free to dismiss the dialog by clicking OK or Ignore (it’s just there to help you out).
* Once you successfully modify a setting, the Rezzer will notify you of the new value, and the Main Menu will be displayed.
* If you type in a value lower than the acceptable minimum, or a value higher than the acceptable maximum, the value you entered will be clamped to the acceptable range.
* Only you (the owner) will be able to change the settings on the rezzer by default. If you would like other people to change the settings, you can easily do this by setting the rezzer to group (Settings…/ Perms…/ Group).
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MENU BREAKDOWN
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1) Main Menu
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This is the top-level menu where you can do basic stuff.
Status ——- Prints current settings in local chat(20M).
Reset ——- Resets everything to default settings.
Help ——- Gives you this notecard.
Turn On/Off ——- Toggle waves spawning or not.
Settings ——- Brings up the Settings sub-menu.
2) Settings Menu
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This is the menu that lets you control various settings related to wave behavior.
Visual ——-
Perms ——-
Frequency ——- Sets the interval, in seconds, between waves. The lower the number, the more often waves spawn. (Default = 30)
Duration ——- Sets how long waves last, in seconds. (Default = 20)
PusherName ——- Choose A or B pusher types(Default = A).
Rise ——- Brings up Rise sub-menu.
Fall ——- Brings up Fall sub-menu.
Speed ——- Sets wave speed, in meters per second. (Default = 5)
3) Rise and Fall Menus
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‘Rise’ and ‘Fall’ refers to the behavior of the wave after it is first rezzed and when it is at the end of its run, respectively.
Rise and Fall are intended to simulate real-life waves swelling and crashing.
You can adjust how long it takes for waves to both rise and fall and how far beneath the surface of the water they start and end up.
Height ——- Sets Rise / Fall Height (in meters) below the water’s surface.
Time ——- Sets the time it takes, in seconds for the wave to rise or fall.
4) PusherName Menu
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A ——- Makes the waves ‘Pusher’ work with ONLY Action Surfboards.
B ——- Makes the waves ‘Pusher’ Work with almost every board in SL including Actions.
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QUICK-START GUIDE
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You can chat to the rezzer 20M distance or shout at the rezzer 96M distance.
The rezzer chats back at you in local chat, so it would be best for you to be within 20M of the rezzer while setting it up.
1) Rez your Action Wave Rezzer someplace on your sim/parcel where there’s water. Rezzer must be under the water on the seabed. At 5M or lower for waves to rez. To check the height of the terraform stand on the seabed & look at the Task Bar I.E. 25, 60, 0 the third number ‘0’ is the terraform height. ‘0’ is lowest level. The rezzer has a sand platform, you can push that plate into the ground if you don’t want the sand showing.
2) The surfboard is located at the front of the rezzer. Please make sure the rezzer is facing the proper direction.
3) Waves will spawn at some distance from the Rezzer. So make sure there’s nothing in the way, things like…
– Terraform
– Non-Phantom prims/objects
– You or anyone else
– Sim edge
4) Before turning on the rezzer you may want to change the Duration.
5) Turn on the Rezzer and watch the waves.
6) You may need to keep tweaking the wave settings to get your wave running proper.
7) If you’re having problems settings up the wave, please contact….
– MarilynMonroe Munro
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FAQ
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– Waves Not Rezzing?
1. Make sure the rezzer is on the seabed & terraforming is below 5M.
2. Make sure the rezzer is on.
3. Make sure its set to the group that owns the parcel (NOT DEEDED).
4. Make sure you have enough space. Allow a minimum of 10M on either side of wave.
5. Make sure the wave is not hitting a sim edge.
– Wave is freezing and diappears, what do I do?
You have an object in the path of the wave, anything in the path of the wave run has to be phantom (Trees, Docks, Reefs). The wave will notify you if thier is a non-phantom object in the way (In local chat 20M). Fly to the area where the wave is disappearing, just before teh wave disappears it will say this message “Action The Maverick [Sculpted] Pusher: Stationary object blocking wave, wave removed.” If you did not recieve this message it could be your terraform, make sure its flat.
– Waves in the air?
* If your waves are in the air above the water, that means the wave is hitting something and riding on top of it…
1. The Terraform, it could be the terraforming on the sides of the wave run or the seabed.
2. Non-Phantom prims/objects.
– Waves lasting to long or not long enough?
* Change the wave duration. If the wave is lasting to long, it will disappear when it hits the terraform… this is bad! You need to change the duration to a lower number so that when it’s at the end of its run, it will drop nicely into the water.
– How come the wave isn’t dropping into the water nicely after its run?
1. It could be the terraform at the end of the run.
2. It could be that the wave duration needs to be shortened.
– Rezzing too many waves?
* Change the frequency. 1&2 below are just suggestions…so you’re not lagging up your area.
1. It’s best to add 10 on top of your duration, to get the frequency (Duration20 + 10 = Frequency30). If you have a 60 Duration run, its best to have the Frequency 40-60.
2. You can have the frequency half of the duration amount, this will have another wave rez when the one that’s running is in the middle of its run (Duration20 / 2 = Frequency10).
– How do I make my wave to stay the same colour, from start to end?
* Make the start and end colours the same.
– What’s the minimum wave run size?
* The minimum wave run size is 60M if the speed is 5(default).
– How do I get an update?
* Rez out the object ‘Action The Maverick (Size you have) Updater V1’.
– How do I know what group has access to the rezzer?
* You can view this in the Build/Edit Menu, located where it says ‘Group:’.
– How do I have someone help me?
* Please contact the listed contact below by Notecard or IM…
– MarilynMonroe Munro
Well, that’s the instruction stuff for the Big Wave you see running the entire sim over near the surfer beach huts in the “airport” quad, ground level. There are two sufer beaches, so be sure to look for the other one as well.
I thought you’d like to see this, just in case you think it’s “push the button and things appear” in the Ashram. It’s a lot of hard work, and many hours of dedicated application to put each and every item into the space, but it’s all worth every erg and every Linden Dollar spent if you make it your work space and use it for the elevation of avatars and the alleviation of the suffering of the Absolute and for the benefit of all beings everywhere.
See You At The Top!!!
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