Guided Tour System

V5.4 Marketplace

Allow visitors of your sim to sit on vehicles that will take them to a tour while telling them information

Available only on MarketPlace this system comes organized in sub-folders for better clarity

• GTS base, GTS chair and Tourmaker HUD is all you need to create your fist test tour
• Documentation notecards with more detailed information for advanced users
• More vehicles Other vehicles you can use
• GTS extra tools Tools to create you own vehicles (not in demo)
• Promote tours A tool to get your tour featured on a TP-HUD for tours fans (not in demo)

Documentation is also available as a pdf file https://www.hudbook.net/GTSmanual.PDF

• Record your tour
  • Add the TourMaker HUD
  • using the menu button on it, do a clear to empty any previous use data
  • Go where your tour will start. move 5-15m away and click on hud (not on menu nor on clock).
    • you hear a bip
    • a red cone appears where you are, pointing on the direction your camera was when you clicked. the orientation of that cone is important only if your vehicle will use tilt or rot option “cam”
    • One waypoint has been recorded. It also appears in your chat, useful when you use the hud just to capture a single point for editing a tour
    • Moving or turning the cone will have no effect. If you can't rez there no cone will be rezzed but that has no effect on your tour. Cones are deleted after 10 minutes.
  • You may say something in local chat. It will also be recorded and whispered to riders on the way to the point you just recorded
  • Move to your next point. When going straight you don't need to make many intermediate points
  • look back to make sure there is no solid obstacle between previous point and you. Seeing the cone helps.
  • look forward and click HUD again for next point
  • If you say something in local chat it will also be recorded. And that will be whispered by your tour on the way to that point. No stress. You can always modify or remove such lines in the notecard later
  • If you cross region border, do it slowly. The hud will automatically add the commands for it
  • keep doing so till the end of your tour. For a first test don't make it too long
• Save your tour
  • in menu, do a save. You will get a web link
  • open the link and copy all that text to paste it in a new notecard
  • tourmaker HUD has more features. See TourMaker HUD
  • you can detach the hud now
• Rez GTS chair, or another vehicle from their sub-folder
  • Edit vehicle and add the notecard to it's content
  • Change vehicle name to not confuse it with vehicle without notecard
  • take vehicle back in inventory
  • A vehicle can contain more than one notecard. In that case riders will get a choice menu when they sit
  • that way you can have different tours or tours with comments in different languages
  • names of notecards will be the menu buttons. Keep them short
• Rez GTS base at your tour starting point
  • Edit the base and add the modified vehicle to it's content
  • Vehicle (a copy of) should shortly appear over the base
  • edit vehicle to position it where you like and pointing toward first waypoint
  • Click on base and select “save pos” so it will remember where to rez vehicle
  • More on the base menu page
• Sit on vehicle and enjoy your first tour
• Modifications
  • You can edit your tour notecard in inventory or in the vehicle rezzed by base.
    • Add/replace points these are just 2 positions <x,y,z>/<x,y,z> First is where tour will go second is a lookat target only used in tilt and rot “cam” option.
    • Modify your text or insert new texts. It's hard to know where to insert if you did not say something during recording.
    • Insert special commands like $,pause and $,speed, Each line must be either a waypoint or acomment or a single $,command.
  • If you modify the rezzed vehicle or it's content or change a setting with vehicl menu,you ride it right away for a test but next rezzed will have old content. To save it permanently:
    • save back trick While editing the vehicle rezzed by the base, go to main sl menu “Build” and select “Object/save back to object contents”. this will update vehicle object inside base.

• With lots of special commands you can add in your notecard
  • $,speed,xx, to change speed during ride
  • $,engine,2, to switch to an engine that can go through walls $,engine,1, to switch back
  • sound playing commands
  • $,pause,xx to pause tour for xx sec
  • $,give,object to give something to your passengers
  • and many others
• Vehicle has a menu for you and your helpers. you access it by right-click and select touch.
  • START the tour
  • Step Mode to make your tour stop and ask after every line
  • Debug to turn on debug mode
  • Get notes let a helper get copies of the notecards
  • Allow drop let a helper drop more notecards to test them
  • Options lets you change vehicle default settings. Don't forget to save back vehicle into base after you changed any
    • speed default speed
    • tilt default tilt option: no, point or cam
    • rot default tilt option: no, point or cam
    • autostart does the tour start when seated: 1 or not: 0
    • select menu query if more than one tour notecard
    • massfact changes vehicle rotation inertia
    • strength changes vehicle rotation inertia see LSL llLookAt
    • damp changes vehicle rotation inertia. value is number of seconds to critically reach rotation

• There is a free Teleport HUD that promotes public accessible tours. owners of that HUD always get an updated list of tour places figured by images the can click on to teleport.
  • You can give it out and..
  • Your tour can be on it!
• All you need is to rez tour promoter close to your tour start and provide a photo. The promoter will register your tour in the HUD database and all HUDs will show it soon. It will also give the HUD to all those clicking it
• To make sure they reach your tour, check that they don't get rerouted by a forced landing point.

• See Making a vehicle page

• see FAQ page