Monday, December 9, 2013

HOW TO: Bar Band

One of the fun things that we like to do occasionally is to pretend we are actually playing the music that a DJ streams or the radio plays. To make this easy to do I added to the Bar XPOSE a Band. Well, you and other members are the Band, but the XPOSE provides positioning and some of the instruments needed.

When you look in the Bar XPOSE menu you will see the 'Band' button.



Click the button and the band equipment and positioners rezz around the DJ spot at the bar. Here I am at the DJ spot with the rezzed band equipment around me.



The equipment consists of two microphones (one female and the other male), a singer positioner/animator, a drum set, two guitar positioner/animators and two back-up dancer positioners/animators. Eleven people (two singers, two guitarists, one drummer and six back-up dancers) plus a DJ can be in the Band at one time. 

Here is a description of how each part of the Band works:

SINGERS

The microphones are colored with the red for the female and blue for the male singer. Sit on the positioner located on the floor behind the microphone stand and a menu appears. Here is the female menu.



These positioners also animate your avatar. You can move like you are singing a slow, medium speed or fast song or just waiting swaying with the music. 

The male microphone and positioner/animator has male animations and the female positoner/animator has female animations.

GUITARISTS

There are two guitar positioners/animators with one on the left of the drums and the other on the right. You have to supply your own guitar. Eventually we will make a NotTooHot guitar for you to use, but for now we don't have it. The guitar positioner/animator is like the singer positioner/animator except the animations are all guitar animations. You may need to edit slightly the position of your guitar after wearing it.



DRUMMER

Sit on the drummers seat and you get a menu.



Choose Getsticks for the drum sticks. Once you wear them, use the GetHUD button to be given the drummer HUD. Wear the HUD to be able to do all the drummer animations.



DANCERS

There are two Dancer Positioner/Animators. One is next to each of the Guitarist spots on the bar. Like all the positioner/animators you sit on the circle and are presented with a menu. Each positioner/animator has three seats which you can choose and a variety of dances that one to three dancers perform in sync.

When you are finished with the Band, just open up the Bar XPOSE and select STOP to de-rezz the Band.

xxx
Nottoo

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