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You can get a free copy of the HUD either by getting it as a gift from someone who has one, by grabbing one from xstreetsl.com, or by going to my store, HUDDLES Headquarters and picking up one there. If you want to grab it from my store, just touch the sign (only pay the sign if you want to purchase it).

It is combination walk replacer and posing HUD specifically designed for use in fashion shows in Second Life. It gives you an easy way to walk down the runway and strike a few poses and comes with a number of poses built in.

At a minimum, your HUDDLES Catwalk will come with four separate stands, which correspond to the four buttons with arrows. These buttons are for:

• first pose – this is the up arrow (or forward arrow) button. This is the first pose that automatically plays whenever you stop walking.
• left pose & right pose – these are the left and right arrows on either side of the HUD. They are typically poses that face a bit to the left or right.
• over shoulder pose – this has the curved u-turn style arrow on the button. This pose typically will have a pose suitable for hitting when you are walking back from the front of the stage.
• other poses – if you have added more poses (or you bought a preloaded set with extra poses) you will see numbered buttons, up to 12. You can play any of these poses by clicking on them.

Available Sets:
There are currently 4 sets available. More will be added soon.

As I said before, what prompted me to make this was the desire to get a mall rental script that only used 1 script per stall. It’s not as fully featured as some, but you would be hard pressed to find one that takes up as little script resources. On my sim it usually only uses 0.001 ms of time from the script scheduler (occasionally it has read 0.002 or 0.003).

It’s for sale at HUDDLES Headquarters and at OnRez.com.

I previously blogged about this product here

So, I did what I normally do in these kinds of situations, I made my own script rather than buying one. The first thing I decided was to get rid of the cube design that many of these devices use. I wanted something a little more classy. My friend Trinity Cole suggested that it have a display with the stall number and I agreed. Also, I didn’t want my rental box moving around and getting really big when the rent was past due. A simple sign would do:

Now to handle the input, at first I tried to decide whether I should use chat commands, a dialog menu or a notecard to change all the variables you need for one of these. It seemed that a notecard would be the best way to handle the basic configuration. There is notecard inside each where you can change the stall number, rent, number of prims, length of rental period, email address and other things:

Next for all the more fluid data, I added a blue dialog menu. Here you can add or subtract days, weeks or months to your tenants rental. You can evict them, send them IMs, refund their money, etc.

I’ve been testing the rental box and a new registration system to make sure it’s as bug free as possible. All I need to do now is finish up with the documentation notecards and make an ad texture and I’ll be done. Well, I might need do one more pass as the code to see if I can free up a little more memory.

So, the idea was create a rental box for mall use which only used one script, had all the features I needed, had 0 open listeners, can be easily updated, and was otherwise low lag. It looks like I succeeded, the time required for each box is between 0.001 and 0.003 ms.

I hope to have it for sale by Friday at HUDDLES Headquarters. If you want to see what they look like up close, please come to Animation Warehouse and see them for yourself.