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GroupExpress
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Congratulations on your purchase of GroupExpress! GroupExpress is the easiest and most efficient way to manage your groups. In just a few moments you will be enjoying hassle-free group management! Here is what you will need to get started:
- A viewer that supports the RLV protocol. GroupExpress relies on RLV do do it's work for you. There are many third-part viewers freely available. See: ...
- Enable RLV. See the documentation for your viewer on how to do this.
- The GroupExpress configuration (ini) file.
- The GroupExpress script.
To use GroupExpress, simply attach the HUD object. Inside it you will find a configuration card. Read the next section on how to configure GroupExpress. Another option is to drop the GroupExpress script and the configuration notecard into an object you wear. This object can be anything: a HUD, a ring, your hair - the only resriction being that you must have modify access to it.
Editing the configuration notecard.
The configuration notecard is named [eZ] GroupExpress.ini by default. The format of the file is as follows:
- Blank lines are ignored.
- Anything following a '#' symbol is ignored. If a group has '#' as part of the name, you're fucked.
- Group names are enclosed in square brackets. '[' and ']' and are case sensitive. Spaces are significant between the brackets. There is no limit to the number of groups you can configure; however, be away that SecondLife currently limits you to 42. The magic group name "none" un-sets your group tag.
- After the group name are one more key/value pairs, separated with a colon, ':' They are not case sensitive. The keys can be either: region, meter, or rating. Values are region names, meter names, or maturity ratings. Values are case sensitive. These pairs determine which group will be selected.
An example will make this clearer:
Let us say you have thee groups: "Shopping Queen", "Amazon Girls", and "Meanie Mistress". Your favourite shoe store in "Land-O-Shoes" gives you a discount when you wear their "Shopping Queen" tag. They also have an outlet store in "Shopping Nirvana". In Gor, you dress up like Xena and "Amazon Girls" is your tribe. Finally, you just really enjoy wearing your "Meanie Mistress" tag everywhere else, except in regions rated PG, where you don't want to wear a tag. Here is what the configuration file would look like:
#-----------------------------------------------------------
# Sample config
[Shopping Queen]
Region: Land-O-Shoes
Region: Shopping Nirvana
[Amazon Girls]
Meter: GM
[Meanie Mistress]
Rating: ADULT
Rating: MATURE
[none]
Rating: PG
#-----------------------------------------------------------
- Things to notice:
- Whitespace on either side of the colons is ignored.
- Rating names must be in uppercase.
- Meter names must match exactly. (Currently only the GM meter is supported.)
- Only region names are recognized, not parcel names.
- You must use the group name exactly as it is in the group information panel - with all the silly modem noise characters.
- There is no way to select roles from within the group.