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"The Scripts are Missing from my HUD!" has moved to new blog.

The HUDDLES EZ Animator Deluxe was reviewed at lindenlifestyles.com back in December:

"It’s truly amazing. It does *EVERYTHNG* you could want. It’s an AO, it’s an animation player, it’s a dance HUD, it’s a chimera, it’s a hug attachment, it lets you set up poofs and macros (curses!), it’s a landmark organizer…the list is endless. It slices! It dices! It even makes julienne fries! And unlike most of the geek-drenched drek out there, this is one of the most user-friendly items on the market with incredibly detailed support documentation. The fully expanded HUD fits on your screen and gives you a nice, big easy-to-read interface. No squinting and guessing at tiny buttons or sighing at the big ugly blocks of crayon-smeared textures that pass as buttons on similar products."

I have been getting some IMs lately from people who report that their EZ Animator has stopped working. Usually they have made some changes recently and suddenly it no longer responds. The buttons light up when they click them but no animation plays.

The first thing to check when this happens is Self Animation. Click the Me button and take a look at the message you get. If it says "Self Animation Off" then click it again until it says "Self Aniamtion On." Then try playing the animation again.

If this doesn't work, the next thing to try is resetting the HUD. If you are using a Deluxe model, wear it and say /99reset. This should reset all the scripts in the HUDDLE.

If you are using the Basic model or if the /99reset command doesn't seem to work on the Deluxe model, you can manually reset the scripts by:

- Dropping the EZ Animator on the ground
- Select it by right clicking on it and choosing "Edit"
- Go to your tools menu and selecting "Reset Scripts in Selection"

If the EZ Animator is still not working, Contact me in Second Life and I will take a look at your HUD.

One note, why would I include a button that turns off Self Animation? Well, I imagined that there may be occasions where you are using the EZ Animator to control someone else, usually on the dance floor. And you might want to stop dancing but let all your dancers keep dancing. So you hit the "Me" button and turn off animations for yourself, but the EZ Animator continues to animate your dancers.

Anyway, in future versions of the EZAD the "Me" button will be red when Self Animation is turned off. This should keep fewer people from hitting that button, turning off their animations and not noticing it.