The WereHouse Wilds Tiger
Release Date: December 2012
Avatar Type: Quadruped Tiger Avatar

The WereHouse Avatars were at the forefront of Second Life® quadruped avatar creation since our first "Critters" line was introduced in early 2006.  Since then we've offered 170 different quadruped avatar choices, including the smaller Critters up to the huge Dires.  But now we're offering something a little better, a little more realistic, and in between the two previously existing avatars.

The Wild Tiger is one of  the "WereHouse Wilds" line of avatars.  It comes with many of the great features people have known our avatars for: Facial expressions, customization, user controlled animations, and more!

So let's talk actual features.  Starting with the visuals, the Tiger comes with five stock texture packs:  Orange, White, Golden Tabby, Maltese, and Recolorable.  This means you can choose between four realistic texture sets, or select the Recolorable skin to make your own color scheme.  The Recolorable Texture Pack has five independent color areas:  Body, Underside, Legs,  Stripes, and Paws.  In addition, the eyes have three independent recolorable areas that work with every skin: Pupil, Inner Iris and Outer Iris.  Users can also use the HUD to select the pupil size for the avatar.

The Wild Tiger is also built to accept third party texture packs. That means if a person makes their own texture set and wishes to sell it or give it away to Wild Tiger avatar owners, they can seamlessly add it to the Avatar without having to go through us. Placeholder buttons are available on the  HUD to access newly added texture packs, or via command line.

The Wild Tiger comes with a HUDAO (Heads Up Display Animation Overrider) that controls most aspects of the avatar.  The Wild Tiger comes with 51 Animations.  This includes the standard AO animations of: eight idle stand poses, walk, run, flying, hovering, swimming, etcetera. The HUD has 22 user selected animations, including grooming, roaring, clawswipe, laying/sleeping poses, and other common feline behaviors.

The HUD also has seven facial expressions available, including snarling and panting. It also has controls for the Ears and Tail. The Ear toggles allow you to set up the ears to move around randomly, flick on 'touch', or be forced forward or pinned back. The tail allows you to select an up or down position, three wagging speeds, and select between a flexi tail and a sculpted prim tail.

The avatar and the HUD are modifiable. And it has new scripting that will allow you to resize any moving parts. So you can make the nose longer, shorter, thinner, etc, and the facial expression functionality will still work.

So a quick overview, the WereHouse Wilds Tiger (v. 1.0) comes with the following:

•21 Facial Control Commands
•6 Eye Control Commands
•8 Jaw Control Commands
•13 Ear Control Commands
•14 Tail Control Commands
•14 Texture Control Commands
•12 Color Control Commands
•51 Animations
•5 Built in Texture Packs (Four realistic texture sets, one recolorable set)
•Multifunctional HUDAO

Note: The WereHouse Wilds requires that you are using the latest version of the Second Life Viewer, or compatable viewers. The Tiger avatar uses alpha layers and some scripted objects that require the updated viewers to work properly.

Size Chart: (Click for a larger image)

 

Table of Contents

HUDAO Manual
   1. Base HUDAO
   2.
Expressions
   3. Tail, Ears and Eyes
   4. Colorizer
   5.
Animations
   6.
About


Chat Commands
 
1. Expressions
   2.
Facial Commands
   3.
Eye Control
   4.
Jaw Control
   5.
Ear Control
   6.
Tail Control
   7.
Textures
   8.
Claw Controls

   9. Colorizer
   10. Adding Textures
   11.
Making Texture Sets

Troubleshooting

HUDAO Manual

1. Base HUDAO
 

The HUDAO is made up of a few different 'pages'.  The first page is the base HUD main menu, as shown on the right. 

The Main Menu page is available on all the other pages, except when the HUD is 'hidden' via the "Hide" button.  The first button listed on the menu will always bring you back to the Main Menu page by itself without the other pages shown.

The second button is for the Facial Expressions of the Avatar without the associated animations.

The third button is for the Tail, Ears and Eye options.

The fourth button will bring up the Colorizer, allowing you to recolor your avatar as you see fit.

The fifth button will bring up the selectable Animation Menu.

The sixth button is for the About Us page, which has a landmark to The WereHouse, a manual notecard with the basic information and command reference, and has a link to bring up this manual website.

The seventh and eighth buttons are theAO power and AO Reset button. If any changes are made to the animation overrider, you'll want to click th Reset button to make sure the changes go live.  This is good to use as well if the HUDAO is experiencing issues.

And the final button is the "Hide" button.  This will hide the AO and only display a small WereHouse Logo on the bottom right of your screen. Click that logo and the HUD will be displayed once more.

Now for specific HUD pages:

2. HUDAO Page 2 - Expressions

The Second button of the HUD's Main Menu is the Expressions page. Click the image for a larger picture.

Here, the Seven Facial Expression Buttons are lined up. None of these buttons affect sounds or animations. They only make the head and jaws work together to product those specific expressions: Normal, Snarl (jaw closed), Snarl (jaw opened), Razzing, Happy face, Panting and the "WTF" or quizzical expression. The bottom button is to display or hide the claws of the avatar.

When an expression is active via these buttons, the expression will light up green. When they are inactive, they will be grayed out.

3. HUDAO  Page 3 - Tail, Ear and Eye options

The third page of the HUD is for the Tail, Ear and Eye options.  The top of the page focuses on the eyes, allowing you to turn off the Eye Blink or the Random Eye Movement.  The three head images along the top show the eyes in open, half closed, and closed states.  If you select one of these states, it will persist through any expression changes you make via HUDAO Page 2 (Expressions).

On the bottom left of Page 3, we have the tail position options, allowing you to position the tail up, normal and tucked or down.  The arrows will turn green if one of those is active on the HUD.   Next to the tail position, we have two tail options, to switch between a sculpted and flexi tail, and to toggle off/on the random tail flicking.  Under those buttons are the tail wagging buttons, the first button stopping the tail, and the following three making the tail wag at the speeds indicated on the button (Slow, Medium and Fast).

Next to the tail options we have the head displaying the ear positions with arrows that point down if you want to pin the ears down, or up arrows if you want to point the ears up.  Under that are the options to turn off the Random Ear Motion, The Move-On-Type option, or the Touch flicking.  Please keep in mind that the owner can always touch flick the ears, and turning off this option only prevents the ears from flicking from other SL Residents.

4.  HUDAO Page 4 - Colorizer: (Click the picture to see it at full size) The most complex of the HUD tiers, the colorizer is what really allows you to customize the avatar to your desired look.  The colorizer is made up of different sections.

Running along the top of the Colorizer, you have the "Texture Pack" options, starting with the four realistic textures, the recolorable textures, and two blank texture packs for third party textures.  On the left side of the colorizer, you have the preview tiger, showing you which texture pack is currently selected via the HUD, or if the recolorable texture is selected, it will show you the color sections on the preview tiger. On the bottom left, you have the preset recolorable sections for the recolorable texture. Note: Recoloring will not work if one of the realistic textures is selected.   In the bottom right, you have the color picker. Right of the color picker, you have arrow buttons that will increase or decrease the amount of Red, Green or Blue in the color selection.  The pawprint buttons to the left of the color picker are there for you to select commonly used colors quickly. You can recolor these paws using the SL editor.

On the top of the Color Picker, we have the eye recolor window.  Note that "Right" and "Left" are flipped so that it corresponds to the avatar's right and left side as if you were looking at the avatar in the face.   You can change the Inner Iris, Outer Iris and Pupil color for both the right and left eyes, completely independent of each other.  Below the color options is the Pupil Size slider.  You can use that to change the size of the pupil from next to nothing to very large.

Using the color picker, you can click on the color spectrum in any location and it will display that color above with the vector available in hovertext. In the example image, this is shown as a light gray color <0.50, 0.50, 0.50>.

The Tiger image on the left will show the Tiger with the recolorable sections outlined in black.  The Tiger has the following recolorable sections (Not including the eyes as mentioned above): Body, Underside, Legs, Stripes, and Paws.

When you choose a color for a recolorable area, you can apply it by clicking on one of the section buttons on the bottom left of the HUD (e.g. "All Sections," "Body," "Paws," etc.)  The locks are available next to each of the recolorable areas (Including the eyes) so that it will not be clickable for recoloring (and so you won't accidentally change it if you click on the wrong button).  Please note that using the locks on the sections will not stop "All Sections" from recoloring them. All Sections will still recolor every recolorable section to the selected color.

Back to the Texture Packs (Top).  The first five are the included texture packs: Orange, White, Golden Tabby, Maltese and Recolorable.   The two buttons next to those are blank placeholders put there so third party texture packs can be added and used by the HUD. The blank button is the texture pack application itself, and the smaller round button is for the user to allow it to be set as a recolorable texture set.  Until you get some custom texture packs, you can ignore these.

5.  HUDAO Page 5 - Animations:  The fifth page on the HUD is the Animation section. These are animations that play outside of the AO itself, that you can start up just by clicking on the buttons.

The roaring and swiping animations come with sounds. Some animations are timed animations, in that they remain in that state for a set amount of time, and then resume the normal avatar behaviors (Depending on if the AO is off or on at the time.)  Some Laying and Sleeping animations will close the eyes of the Avatar. So be sure to click those off before changing animations, or the eyes will remain closed.  The other animations are toggle off/on.  Animations with facial expressions will not revert the facial expressions automatically. You must use the Expressions page on the HUD to restore them.

6.  HUDAO Page 6 - About The WereHouse:  The About The WereHouse page has some information regarding The WereHouse.  The First button, for the Full Manual will allow you to view this webpage anytime you need to.

The Command Reference is a notecard in-world that has all the chat based commands that work with the avatar (Also available below).

Under those two buttons, on the left will allow you to join our product group, Realmscapes, and on the right is a Landmark to the WereHouse.  This may be important if you ever lose your avatar, you can use our avatar resend station in our main store to get a fresh copy of the avatar.

Chat Commands

All commands are on channel 53, that means they should all start with /53. Commands are not case sensitive.

1.Expressions (affects head and jaw)
Normal - Puts the Avatar's facial expression in the normal, closed mouth appearance.
Happy - Makes a happy face :D
Snarl - Makes a closed-jaw snarl.
WTF - Makes a quizzical expression.
Razz - Sticks out the tongue with the mouth closed.
Pant - Makes the avatar take a panting gesture with squinting eyes and a flapping tongue.

2. Facial commands (affects only part of the head)
MuzzleClose - Puts the muzzle/nose in the regular closed mouth position.
MuzzleSnarl - Puts the muzzle/nose in the snarl position.
MuzzleSmile - Puts the muzzle/nose in the smiling position.
EyesOpen - Opens the eyes.
EyesMid - Puts the eyes in a squinting state.
EyesClose - Closes the eyes.
EyesWTF - Puts on the quizzical expression.
EyesSmile - Puts the eyes in an wide open happy expression.
EyesSnarl - Puts the eyes in an angry expression.
JawClose - Puts the jaw in the regular closed position.
JawOpen - Puts the jaw in the open position.
JawLoll - Puts the jaw in the open position with the tongue sticking out.
JawRazz - Puts the jaw in the closed position with the tongue sticking out.
JawPant - Puts the jaw in the open position with the tongue animated to pant.
JawSnarl - Puts the jaw in the closed position with the lips tightened to show the upper fangs.

3. Eye Control
EyeBlinkOn - Allows the eyes to blink randomly.
EyeBlinkOff - Turns off the eye blinking.
EyeBlinkToggle - Toggles between the blinking and nonblinking states.
EyeMoveOn - Allows the eyes to look around randomly.
EyeMoveOff - Turns off the eye movement.
EyeMoveToggle - Toggles between the moving and nonmoving states.


4. Jaw Control - Werehouse Yakkity
VoiceTalkOn - Allows the jaw to move (Like talking) while using SL's voice chat.
VoiceTalkOff - Turns off jaw movement for voice chat.
VoiceTalkToggle - Toggles between the the voice chatting and nonchatting states.
TypeTalkOn - Allows the jaw to move (like talking) while typing on SL.
TypeTalkOff - Turns off the movement for typing.
TypeTalkToggle - Toggles between the type chatting and nonchatting states.
SubTypeTalkTime X - Moves the jaw if the owner uses a subchannel, such as for talking through role playing items. X = number of seconds to move jaw. Set time to zero to disable.
SubTypeTalkChan X - Sets the channel for the Yakkity scripting to check. (X = channel to listen to.)


5. Ear Control
LeftForward - Sets the Left Ear in the forward facing position. (Note, the ears will still randomly move and flick if those controls are on.)
LeftBack - Sets the Left Ear in the 'pinned' position.
RightForward - Sets the Right Ear in the forward facing position. (Note, the ears will still randomly move and flick if those controls are on.)
RightBack - Sets the Right Ear in the 'pinned' position.
EarMoveStart - Allows the ears to swivel randomly while set in the "Forward" Position.
EarMoveStop - Turns off the ear movement.
EarMoveToggle - Toggles between the moving and nonmoving states.
TouchFlickOn - Allows the ears to flick when someone else touches the avatar's ears. (Note: Owner can always touch flick)
TouchFlickOff - Turns off the ear flicking for others.
TouchFlickToggle - Toggles between the ear flicking off/on states.
EarTypeMoveOn - Allows the ears to move into the forward position while typing.
EarTypeMoveOff - Turns off the type triggered ear movement.
EarTypeMoveToggle - Toggles between type triggered off/on states.

6. Tail Control
TailFlexi - Switches the tail to flexiprims.
TailSculpt - Switches the tail to sculpted prims.
TailToggle - Toggles between flexiprim and sculpted prims.
WagSlow - Slow tail wagging state.
WagMed - Midrange tail wagging state.
WagFast - Fast wagging state.
WagStop - Stops the tail wagging state.
WagSwish - Toggles the tail between a randomly occuring horizontal swish and no swish.
TailUp - Puts the tail in an 'up' position.
TailDown - Puts the tail in a lower/normal position.
TailTuck - Puts the tail in a low/tucked position. (Note: wagging states do not work in this position.)
FlickStart - Allows the tail to randomly flick.
FlickStop - Turns off the random flick.
Flick - Makes the tail flick once on command.

7. Textures (For creating your own texture packs) -
TexSetupStart - For Adding Texture Packs to the Avatar.
TexSetupEnd - Ends the Texture session.
TexReal1 - Changes the textures to the Timber Texture Pack. (first realistic texture pack)
TexReal2 - Changes the textures to the Obsidian Texture Pack
TexReal3 - Changes the textures to the Arctic Texture Pack.
TexReal4 - Changes the textures to the Mackenzie Texture Pack.
TexColor - Changes the textures to the Recolorable Texture Pack.
TexCustom1 - Changes the textures to the first custom/third party texture pack stored in the HUD.
TexCustom2 - Changes the textures to the second custom/third party texture pack stored in the HUD.
TexCustom1Color - Sets custom slot 1 as colorable
TexCustom1Real - Sets custom slot 1 as noncolorable
TexCustom2Color - Sets custom slot 2 as colorable
TexCustom2Real - Sets custom slot 2 as noncolorable

8. Claw Controls
ClawsIn - Makes the claws hide.
ClawsOut - Makes the claws show.

9. Colorizer
ColorAll <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
LeftEyeIris - Inner Eye Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
LeftEyeShadow - Outer Eye Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
LeftEyePupil - Pupil Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
RightEyeIris - Inner Eye Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
RightEyeShadow - Outer Eye Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
RightEyePupil - Pupil Color <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
Body <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
Underside <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
Legs <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
Paws <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
Stripe <vector value> OR defined color (see below)
ColorDefault (sets all color sections to defaults)

Defaults are listed as follows:
Body: <.53,.22,.03>
Underside: <.19, .19, .19>
Legs: <.53,.22,.03>
Paws: <.19, .19, .19>
Stripe: <0.17255, 0.08627, 0.00000> Pupil : <.10,.10,.10>
Inner Iris: <1.00000, 0.50196, 0.00000>
Outer Iris: <0, .5, 0>


Pre-Defined Colors:
gray <.19, .19, .19>
auburn <.32, .18, .08>
skyblue <.62, .62, .85>
copper <.42, .27, .12>
red <.35, 0, 0>
green <0, .5, 0>
yellow <1.0, 1.0, 0.0>
golden <1.00000, 0.50196, 0.00000>
darkgray <.06, .06, .06>
blue <0, 0, .21>
lightgray <.5, .5, .5>
brown <.53,.22,.03>
black <0,0,0>
purple <0.19608, 0.00000, 0.36078>
white <1,1,1>

Adding New Texture Packs

The WereHouse Wilds Tiger avatar is designed with third party customization in mind. This means that third parties can create, sell, or give away their own texture sets for this Avatar. The HUD only has two custom slots available, however, the Avatar comes with an Object called the Multipack, which can store several more Texture packs. You can then use the Multipack to send these texture sets to the two custom buttons located on the HUD.

To Make a Texture Pack Available to your Tiger and HUD:

1. Wear the entire Tiger avatar.

2. Type the following in the regular chat channel:
/53texsetupstart (This tells the avatar that a new set of textures are to be loaded.)

3. Click the third party texture set (Should be in an object that the third party made available).

4. Choose one of the two Custom Slots available on the HUD. (Custom1 or Custom2)

5. The new texture set should now be available on the HUD! (Using the SL editor, you could retexture the buttons on the HUD as well).

6. Type the following in the regular chat channel:
/53texsetupend

To Add a Texture Pack to the Multipack. (The HUD only holds two custom texture packs, but the Multipack can actually store several more, so you can switch the ones available on the HUD and not lose any you've previously picked up!)

1. Click the Multipack. Select "Store" from the menu. Another menu will pop up with several slots available. Select the slot to put the Texture pack.

2. Click the Third Party Texture set. Choose "Storage" on the menu.

To send a Texture Pack from the Multipack to the HUD:

1. Click the Multipack. Select "Send" from the Menu.

2. Click the Slot that holds the specific texture pack you want available on the HUD. Then click "Custom1" or "Custom2" on the menu. (Those are the two buttons that make the texture packs available on the HUD).

3. Now you can use that custom button to load that texture!

Making Texture Packs

We will add information here as it becomes available.

Troubleshooting

We will add information here as it becomes available.

Gallery

We will add information here as it becomes available.

Credits

Main Builder and Texture Designer: Jakkal Dingo
Main Scripter: Kayla Stonecutter
Animations: Jakkal Dingo
Testers: WolfShaman Warrior

Support

In World Help Staff: WolfShaman Warrior and Tyger Skytower
Email Support: Jakkal at gmail dot com
Forum Support

 

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