I Make HUDDLES™

If you have spent any time in Second Life, one of the first things that you will notice is that the avatars walk funny. Many people describe it as a “duck walk”. It looks awkward and silly and most importantly it doesn’t look like someone walking.

One of the first things that people often want to do once they join Second Life is get a decent walk (right after getting a nice skin and a fabulous flexi-prim hair). One way you can replace your duck walk is by finding some boots with a walk replacer built in. This is a fine solution if all you want to do is replace your walk, but if you want to replace your other default animations like sitting, standing, flying and jumping, you will want to use an Animation Override.

An Animation Override (or AO) is a scripted object that you wear. You load it with animations and it uses those animations to replace your default ones automatically. So when you walk, sit or stand, it plays the animations you choose.

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Adding animations to your EZAD

To add an animation to your EZAD:

• Drop your EZ Animator onto the ground.
• Right click on the EZAD and choose Edit.
• Click the “More…” button and then choose the “Content” tab.

• Open your inventory and using your mouse, drag the animations from your inventory into the Contents of the EZAD.
• Wait to make sure the animations have transferred to the EZAD.
• Right click on the EZAD and choose “Take”

VERY IMPORTANT: MOVE NO COPY ANIMATIONS ONE AT A TIME

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Step 1 – Unpack your EZAD

(If you recieved a folder with the EZ Animator, some textures and some notecards inside, skip to Step 2)

Drag a copy of the object named “HUDDLES EZ Animator Deluxe” to the ground. Touch it once. It gives you a folder named HUDDLES EZ Animator Deluxe with all the components inside:

• HUDDLES EZ Animator Deluxe 1.1.3 (the actual device)
• HUDDLES Dance Ball (an addon to allow others to dance with you)
• EZ Animator Deluxe guide 1 & 2 (texture guides to the buttons)
• Various notecards
• Gestures that bind your F2-F12 keys to your EZ Animator Deluxe (optional)

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