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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

• 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
    • one waypoint has been recorded
  • 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
  • look forward and click HUD again for next point
  • keep doing so till the end of your tour. For a first test don't make it too long
  • If you cross region border, do it slowly. The hud will automatically add the commands for it
  • 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 vehicule 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

• 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 clicking while on tour or by shift-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
    • damp changes vehicle rotation inertia

• There is a free Teleport HUD that promotes public accessible tours
  • 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 when clicked

• See Making a vehicle page

• see FAQ page