HOW TO: Dance Balls at NotTooHot

Although many people dance with a HUD, this note covers only the use of the Club's Dance Balls. If you look above the bar you will see a set of large red and blue balls.

The smaller multicolored ball is the Couples INTAN (238 dances) while the large red ball is for individual female dances (761 dances) and the large blue ball is for male dances (353 dances).

My goal is to have the best dance balls in SL.

Although everyone knows how to use the INTAN, with so many couples dance choices available understanding a bit more about the capabilities of the INTAN system will make your dancing a lot more fun. The key to the INTAN is the INTAN HUD. You can get one from me or by clicking on the multicolored ball after you hop on a red or blue INTAN pose ball and selecting the Tools & Help button followed by the Get HUD button.

Wear the HUD. It defaults to the upper right of your screen.

When you wear the HUD, you get easy access to the Re-Sync button at any time. Without the HUD the Re-Sync button is only available from the first page of the menu and with 29 menu pages a resync could lead to carpal tunnel syndrome from all the clicking.

The INTAN also lets you access the dances that are the type you want using the INTAN Filter feature. I have placed all the couples dances into one or more categories. Click on the yellow Filter button to see the list of categories.

Select the style of dance you want, such as Latin followed by Set Group. This sets the INTAN HUD only to see Latin dances. When you next click on the green Menu button all you see are the Latin dances.

When you are ready to switch to another style of dancing, click again on the yellow Filter button and click STOP. After that repeat the process to select the next style.

Here is an example:

How to Tango:

1. Click on the INTAN Dance Ball to rezz the INTAN pose balls
2. Both sit on the appropriate pose ball
3. Wear the INTAN HUD, which I can give you. It goes in the upper right of your screen
4. On the HUD click the yellow Filter Button to bring up a blue menu
5. Choose Tango then Set Group
6. Close the blue menu
7. Click the green menu sign and now you see all the tango dances

Unfortunately, the individual dance balls for female and male dances do not have any kind of filtering. As a result you will get huge finger muscles from all the clicking you will do to go through the long list of dances arranged in alphabetical order.

Have fun dancing!

xxx
Nottoo