If you have an EZ Animator Deluxe, head to HUDDLES Headquarters. The update area is directly below the store on the island. Use the following SLURL to get there directly:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Animation%20Island/120/82/28/

Once there, click the orange ball to get your updater object. Rez it on the ground and follow the directions right on the updater:

Click this Orange Ball to get your test version

The directions are also on this website. And if you want to see what has changed since 1.2.1, check out the change log.

• The math error shouldn’t be happening anymore.
• It will remember it’s status when you turn it on and off, across different sessions.
• The problem of drifting away in certain situations shouldn’t happen anymore.

Also, follow the link to find out about the latest options with the flight assist.

The Release Candidate 4 upgrader can be obtained by clicking the green ball on animation island. As before, the object will turn your old EZ Animator Deluxe (v1.0.4 and above) into a shiny new one without you having to move all the animations. I’ve also added instructions on the web on how to do the upgrade. You can read the release notes on the web, however they may be incomplete.

If you have previously upgraded to Release Candidate 1, 2 or 3, you can just use this updater and run the process again.

Please note, only people who own the EZ Animator Deluxe already can get the update. If you think you own one and it’s not giving it to you, IM Keiki Lemieux.

I’ve also added a pink prism you can touch to receive some extra items you may need if you never had version 1.2.0, like the notecard with all the radio streams and HUDDLES Group Radio, the gestures which allow you to press buttons on the hud by click F2-F12, and most important, the ZHAO II Notecard converter.

Also, if you were using version 1.1.3 or earlier you should look here on info about how to upgrade your AO.

Once again, I’m hoping that this will be the last Release Candidate. If I don’t find any bugs within the next week, I’ll put together the final version and get that ready.

If you have previously upgraded to Release Candidate 1 or Release Candidate 2, you can just use this updater and run the process again.

Please note, only people who own the EZ Animator Deluxe already can get the update. If you think you own one and it’s not giving it to you, IM Keiki Lemieux.

I’ve also added a pink prism you can touch to receive some extra items you may need if you never had version 1.2.0, like the notecard with all the radio streams and HUDDLES Group Radio, the gestures which allow you to press buttons on the hud by click F2-F12, and most important, the ZHAO II Notecard converter.

Also, if you were using version 1.1.3 or earlier you should look here on info about how to upgrade your AO.

I’m hoping that this will be the last Release Candidate. If I don’t find any bugs within the next week, I’ll put together the final version and get that ready.

We will be talking about the EZ Animator Deluxe. Topics will include:

• New features of version 1.2.1
• How to update your HUDDLE to the latest Release Candidate version
• How to update your AO notecard to the ZHAO II format
• How macros work with the EZ Animator Deluxe

I posted the transcript on the website.

So many have sent feedback, but one user really stands out. Monica Jewell has found numerous bugs and offered lots of suggestions to either tweak existing features or add new ones. Her input has been indispensable.

Monica is also a content creator, and I haven’t had the chance to look closely at her products, but because of the quality of her suggestions and because she so thoroughly tested the EZAD and found numerous bugs, I’m betting they are worth looking into (if you like BDSM animations and furniture, that is). Her store is named “Monicas Jewells” and if you like how well the EZ Animator Deluxe is working in this version, you might go take a look at her store.

• FIXED 7/25: PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION not set bug with Hugger.
• FIXED 7/19: Text reads flight assist on/off instead of flight boost on/off.
• FIXED 7/19: Sit on/off status incorrect after update, fixed by reset.
• FIXED 7/25: Hugs should turn off your AO and turn it back on when the hug is over.
• FIXED 7/25: Minimized HUD does not remember maximized position when detached and attached again.
• FIXED 7/26: Walking backwards is broken.

Changes to the updater:

• DONE 7/26: Goes to Step 1 on rez.
• DONE 7/26: Combine Step 8 & 9.

If you have previously upgraded to Release Candidate 1, you can just use this updater and run the process again.

Please note, only people who own the EZ Animator Deluxe already can get the update. If you think you own one and it’s not giving it to you, IM Keiki Lemieux.

I’m particularly interested in finding out if this version is any smoother than previous versions. If you find problems, please IM me.

UPDATE: Bugs squashed after RC2:

• Fixed and Current, 7/18: Self animation off led to repeated “Stop All Animations” in Dance or Random mode.
• Fixed and Current, 7/19: The updater itself wasn’t showing the instructions.
• Fixed 7/19: Text reads flight assist on/off instead of flight boost on/off.
• Fixed 7/19: Sit on/off status incorrect after update, fixed by reset.
• Not Fixed Yet: Hugs should turn off your AO and turn it back on when the hug is over.
• Not Fixed Yet: Minimized HUD does not remember maximized position when detached and attached again.

I’ve updated the upgrader, you might want to grab it again, if you got it yesterday, but the only real change was the one bug fix from yesterday. I didn’t think it was worth it to do a whole new Release Candidate for it.

I’ve also added a pink prism you can touch to receive some extra items you may need if you never had version 1.2.0, like the notecard with all the radio streams and HUDDLES Group Radio, the gestures which allow you to press buttons on the hud by click F2-F12, and most important, the ZHAO II Notecard converter.

• Various changes to optimize for dancing and to try to reduce lag bubble moments.
• Made a small change that allows you to choose a Dance while in Dance or Random mode, without popping you out of those modes. Choosing a macro or animation while in Sit Anywhere mode, pops you out of Sit Anywhere mode.
• Playing a macro or animation pops you out of Sit Anywhere mode. By the way, in case you haven’t noticed the new Sit Anywhere button, it’s on the AO buttons, lower right. It looks like arrow pointing down.
  
• Whitespace at the beginning of an emote should no longer be stripped.
• Sit Anywhere animation changes when you select a new one via the menu.
• Fixed a number of small problems when Hugs are not accepted.

After some more internal testing, I hope to set out a new Release Candidate by tomorrow.

A version of a program that nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version.

The Release Candidate upgrader can be obtained by clicking the green ball on animation island. The object will turn your old EZ Animator Deluxe (v1.0.4 and above) into a shiny new one without you having to move all the animations. I’ve also added instructions on the web on how to do the upgrade. And rather than make another long post about what the update contains, take a look at the posts I’ve tagged with Updates.

Please note, only people who own the EZ Animator Deluxe already can get the update. If you think you own one and it’s not giving it to you, IM Keiki Lemieux.

UPDATE: Changes/bug fixes as of Friday, July 11th:

• When using the button to sit anywhere (lower right button on the AO buttons), you can now change the sit using the groundsit menu.
• HUDDLE gives feedback when you change the name for emotes (/99set name Keiki).
• /99n MacroName was only working properly for the first 10 macros. It’s fixed now.

Remaining Bugs/Changes

• FIXED 7/7: There is a bug that happens when you invite a new person to dance with you. Animations don’t sync up right away as they should.
• FIXED 7/7: Change text from “flight boost” to “flight assist”
• FIXED 7/7: Problem with the numbering system for the dance slave scripts
• FIXED 7/7: Stop all animations not working properly
• FIXED 7/8: Updater script not removing all old dance slave copies
• COULD NOT REPLICATE 7/10: Remove dancer not working properly (need to confirm)
• FIXED 7/10: Prevented the following kinds of macros from playing in Dance or Random mode: [HUG], [AO_ON], [AO_OFF], [REPEAT], [GIVE], [EMAIL], [DIALOG], [URL], mapping landmarks & loading new notecards.
• FIXED 7/10: Fixed conflict between hugger and groundsits.
• Squash any other bugs that I discover in testing

Testing

• I’ll be doing a big stress test tomorrow night. I’ll load up one of the animators with 50 dance slaves and invite as many people to use it at once. I think I’ll be doing this around 7pm SL time (PST), so if you would like to help, join the HUDDLES customer help group and wait for the announcement.

Documentation

• DRAFT DONE 7/8: I need to create a guide for the update process. I need both an in world guide to refer to as you do the update, and I’ll also make a nicely formatted page here on the blog.
• Also, I need to document all the new features and add that to the web help docs.

Release Candidate Testing

• Once I get the guide written up, I’ll need to put together a release candidate that I’m going to allow people to pick up. This will be the updater object and a fresh copy of version 1.2.1 available to previous owners of the EZ Animator Deluxe.
• I want to have an update party too. This will be later in the week or at the beginning of next week. I’ll invite people over to Animation Island when I’m ready to distribute the release candidate. And I’ll walk everyone through the step by step process to update.

I’ll probably distribute the release candidate before I get all the documentation done. However, it may be several weeks before I finalize it and update all my vendors. From this point forward, it will get much easier. Because of the automatic updater, it will make all future updates much easier to do. You will be able to take your current HUD, update it to the release candidate version. Then when the final release of 1.2.1 is available, you just run the updater again.