A posing stand with multiple animations plus variable lighting and backgrounds
The Bright Posing Stand can...
...position your avatar for you while you try different outfits
...hold your avatar still as you adjust prim attachments
...pose you for snapshots and modelling photography
...offer a choice of animations: switching between them one by one, or via a menu
...illuminate you under a choice of differently coloured lights
...display a selection of textured "screens" behind you
...allow you to add any number of your own animations and textures
Most avatars' inventories in Second Life contain at least one circular prim called a "posing stand": and as they are frequently given out free with clothes, you may have many. You rez one, "sit" on it, and your avatar floats motionless above it, legs and arms slightly spread. This makes it easier to try different outfits, or adjust the position of prim attachments.
The Bright Posing Stand does the same basic job, but with a little more flexibility. Instead of a single fixed pose, it can play any animation item you drop inside: whether it is static or moving. It has four carefully positioned lamps, which can illuminate you in any of a selection of coloured lights. And behind you, it can project a "screen" or background texture.
This lets you see how your outfits look under different lights and against different backgrounds, adjust attachments to best advantage, and take the perfect profile snapshot or modelling photograph.
Simply click the stand to "sit" on it. You will find yourself in the same pose that the Second Life "Edit Appearance" command uses, entirely still, floating, and with your arms and legs slightly spread.
A menu will appear, like this:
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CURRENT SETTINGS:
POSE: No pose
LIGHT: No light
SCREEN: No screen
[POSES] [LIGHTS] [SCREENS]
[Next pose] [Next light] [Next screen]
[Last pose] [Last light] [Last screen]
[No pose] [No light] [No screen]
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To try the other animations, click [Next pose]: the posing stand contains 18 animations, and each will be played in turn, until the first is played again. To return to the previous animation, click [Last pose]: and to return to the default "Edit Appearance" position, click [No pose]. (Below, you will learn how to remove pose animations you don't like, and add your own.)
Similiarly, you can cycle thought the available lights by clicking [Next light], each illuminating your avatar in a different colour. Click [No light] to switch them off.
And to change the background behind your avatar, click [Next screen]. (Once again, below, you will learn how to remove screen textures you do not not like, and add new ones.)
To jump straight to your favourite POSE instead of moving through them one by one, click [POSES]. A new menu will appear:
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Please select a pose from... [1] Arabesque [2]
Belly dance [3] Female walk [4] Fighting stance
[5] Funky dance [6] Girly [7] Guitar axing [8]
Hands behind head [9] Kneeling
[7] [8] [9]
[4] [5] [6]
[1] [2] [3]
[MAIN MENU] [NO POSE] [+ POSES]
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Simply click the numbered button corresponding to the pose you wish to adopt. Click [+ POSES] to see more animations, [NO POSE] to return to the basic system "Edit Appearance" stance, or [MAIN MENU] to return to the menu described above.
Similarly, click the [LIGHTS] button on the main menu to see a complete list of the colours available:
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Please click a button below to control the
lighting, or click NO LIGHT to switch it off.
[Red] [Green] [Blue]
[Yellow] [Purple] [Cyan]
[Orange] [Pink] [Teal]
[MAIN MENU] [NO LIGHT] [White]
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And clicking the [SCREENS] button on the main menu will list all the available background textures:
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Please select a background... #1: Anarchist #2:
Black #3: Bricks #4: Dollar #5: Earth #6: Grass #7:
Hippe #8: Hot pink #9: Sky
[#7] [#8] [#9]
[#4] [#5] [#6]
[#1] [#2] [#3]
[MAIN MENU] [NO SCREEN] [+ SCREENS]
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Fresh out of the box, the Bright Posing Stand offers a choice of 18 poses, and 18 background screens.
Each pose is simply animation item inside the stand, and each screen is a texture. You can remove any that you don't like, and add your own favourites from your Inventory. The menus will be automatically updated to reflect your changes.
Simply right-click the posing stand, and click "Open" from the circular menu which appears. You will see a list of animations (with little blue men icons), and textures (with rainbowed squares). Add new ones by dragging them in from your inventory, and get rid of those you don't like by right-clicking them and selecting "Delete".
* Do spend a little time removing animations and screens you don't like, and adding those that you do! Unused animations make the ones you want to use hard to find: adding new ones is fun.
* If you use an AO, copy the walking, flying and sitting animations from your AO into the stand. Then you can see how your clothes will look while your moving around. That prim skirt may look lovely while your standing, but how will it look when you sit down? And does that handbag disappear into your bottom when you walk?
* If you have added your own animations or textures to the posing stand, change it's name to "My Bright Posing Stand", right-click it, click "More >" and "Take Copy". Then you can quickly rez it again should you need to, or rez more copies elsewhere.
* The Bright Posing Stand is modifiable. If you want to change the position of the lamps, or delete some of them - and you know how to use the Second Life edit - please go ahead. (Naturally, it is possible to break the stand by editing it too much, so always keep the original safe in your inventory :) )
* Though we hope the name is a clue, please do not remove the animation "~~DO NOT REMOVE~~", or the posing stand simply will not work :) It's starts with two "~~" characters to keep it safely at the bottom of the list out of the way: it must always be the last item alphabetically in the posing stand's contents.
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer