D3 Drums Features

D3 Drums - Full Documentation

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Sit on the Drums
Accept the HUD and Drumsticks. Wear all of it.
Start Hitting buttons. ENJOY !!

The Buttons
Menu Functions
Adding Your Own Textures
Riser Functions - Moving The Drums
Add Your Riser To The Drums
Using A RezBox
Using The Lights

The Buttons

	A looping "base" animation. Animates your entire body
	A "one-shot" version of an animation. These are meant to be played on top of a looping base animation. They animate your entire body, run once and then end. Its a cool way to throw variety into your performance.
	A 5-in-1 button. These buttons allow you to hit a specific area of the drumset, or do various breaks and rolls. The button is divided into 5 separate sections. Each section triggers a different animation. Generally speaking, the gentler animations are on the right side of the button, increasing in intensity as you move toward the left side of the button.
	Control the drum built-in pyros. smoke, flames, and explosion. Note that the smoke will react to the color of the lighting fixture that comes with the drums.. or with other OD Stage Lighting products.
	Spin the drumset around in circles. There are 7 different sorts of spins. The arrow button induces a "random" spin pattern.
	This panel controls the drumstick functions. Glow, fire, and spinning. You can do short and long spins on left or right hand stick... or both. [0] - hide the sticks [1] - show the sticks
	Click here for the HUD menus. More About Menus

Menu Functions

Sit on the drums and touch them to get the drum menu.

FlatToGround

Rotate the drums so they are flat to the ground. This is a handy way to get the drums back "flat" if you accidently rotate them around and need to straighten them back.

Adjust Avatar

Adjust the sit position of the avatar. Up/Down In/Out

Hardware

[BtmHeadOff]	Hide the bottom drum head and rim hardware on the tom drums
[BtmHeadOn]	Show the bottom drum head and rim hardware on the tom drums
[KickHeadOff]	Hide the front kick drum head
[KickHeadOn]	Show the front kick drum head
[HW-White]	Turn stands a light chrome color
[HW-Black]	Turn stands a glossy black color

Texture

[DrumTexture]	Choose a texture for the drums
[DrumInside]	Choose a texture for the inside surface of the drums. This is useful when you have hidden the
[Shine]	Adjust the shine of the outer drum surface
[InsideShine]	Adjust the shine of the outer drum surface. This is useful when you have hidden the bottom drum heads (and/or the front kick head) and want to have a different shine inside than outside
[BottomHead]	Choose a texture for the bottom drum head.
[TopHead]	Choose a texture for the top drum head.
[KickHead]	Choose a texture for the kick drum head.
[SeeThru]	Choose a drum transparency.
[Bright]	[BrightOn] The drums are full bright all the time reguardless of ambient lighting. [BrightOff] The drums respond more naturally to ambient light including sunlight and stage lighting and colors.

Sounds

To play drum sounds, wear the RiffPod sound module (included in the drum package). The RiffPod is an invisible attachment. You will get a menu of sounds to choose from. The RiffPod must be worn on your body (not on a HUD position) to be heard by other avatars.

Unlock

Allows you to drop a texture into the drums. See "Texturing" for more details. Only works for the owner.

Clicking the [D3] logo at the top of the HUD, activates the HUD menu.

Adjust Text. Shift the button labels around to suit your display.

Adding Your Own Textures

Make your (or otherwise) acquire your texture.
Textures should be full permissions
Rename your texture:

Drum Head Textures should start with "HEAD" for example: "HEADPLain" or "HEADRedApple"
Drum Side Textures should start with "DR". for example: "DRMyBlack" or "DREvilMonkey"

Drop your texture into the drums (follow these steps)

Touch the drums. Blue menu. TEXTURE....UNLOCK
You will get a message that the drums have been unlocked and you can drop in your texture.
Right click the drums. EDIT. Open the CONTENTS tab.
Press and hold Ctrl on the keyboard. While holding Ctrl...drag the texture into the CONTENTS list in the edit dialog window. The drums will outline in red. This is normal. The texture will now be in the drum's contents.

Now you can use the texturing menu commands above and your new texture will be available in the listing.
"Dropping into inventory" will remain enabled (for all avatars) until you pickup the drums and re-rez them.

Graphics Templates

Use one of these templates to create your own drum head textures that will work perfectly every time.

OD Mk2 DrumHead Template.psd (Photoshop)

OD Mk2 DrumHead Template.pspimage (Paint Shop Pro)

Riser Functions - Moving The Drums

You can make the drums follow a riser, or any other object in your stage. Insert a script into your object. When you want to call the drums to that position, issue a certain script command. There are different ways to do it.

Make the drums follow only the "Z" (Height) of an object.	llSay(9999, "z^" + (string)llGetPos());
Make the drums follow X,Y,Z position of an object. This will snap the drums to the same center point location as your object	llSay(9999, "pos^" + (string)llGetPos());
Make the drums follow X,Y,Z position, and rotation of an object. This will snap the drums to the same center point location as your object and turn the drums in the same orientation as your object.	llSay(9999, "posrot^" + (string)llGetPos() + "^" + (string)llGetRot());

Adding A Riser To The Drums

There are some things to think about when adding a riser to the drums.

The D3 drums are no-mod, so you can't just link a riser to them
The "root" prim of the drumset must remain the same. That means that, even if you could link your riser to the drums, you can't make the riser the root prim. If the riser isn't the root prim, then moving it with your script won't move the drumset.. so that method doesn't really work at all.

There are a couple of ways to accomplish it. (1). Use the above movement commands to move the drums, and write a script that will also listen to those commands and move your riser along with the drums. This will probably require you to either "offset" the z coordinate to compensate for the "center" of your riser, or, easier.. make an invisible root prim for your riser and place it at the same location as the root prim of the drums.

(2). Build your riser, non-scripted, and contact Ortho Vargas. pass a full permission version of the riser to him. He can link it to a version of your drums and pass you back a working model. In this scenario you need to use the above movement commands to make the drums move.

Using A RezBox

Even though the drums are no-mod, it is possible to use them in any RezBox.

Setup your stage. Make sure your drums are rezzed in world. In your D3 Drum folder you will find a "positioner" object. Rez it close to the drums.
The positioner (a green ball) will start a countdown visible in floating text. While the countdown is running, the positioner will call the drums to its location and orientation.
When the drums snap to the positioner ball, they will likely no longer be in the right place on your stage. Select both the Drums and the positioner ball.. and move them together .. placing the drums in the correct location on your stage.
When the positioner ball countdown is finished it will turn transparent and the floating text will dissapear. If you need to start the countdown over and re-snap the drums to the positioner, just touch the positioner.
Once the drums and positioner are in the correct location on your stage, place your rezzer script into the POSITIONER (it is mod/copy). Take drums and positioner into inventory (separately) and pack them into your rezzer box. The drums are copy, and can be placed into the rezbox even though you can't put the rezzer script into the drum itself.
When you rez your stage, the positioner ball will follow the rezbox command just as any other prim would do. As it moves.. it will snap the drums to itself. Remember, when the positioner countdown is over it will turn invisible and stop calling the drums.
At any time you can touch the positioner ball to stop or restart the countdown. (ctrl-alt-T lets you see the ball when it is invisible)
Voila. NoMod drums working in a RezBox

Using The Lights

The lighting fixture is a separate object from the drums. When you rez the lights they will auto-snap to the drums for a few seconds. This aligns them perfectly to the drums. The lights can also be used in a rezzbox as they are mod.

D3 Drums - Full Documentation

The Buttons

Menu Functions

Menu Functions

Adding Your Own Textures

Graphics Templates

Riser Functions - Moving The Drums

Adding A Riser To The Drums

Using A RezBox

Using The Lights

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