Sunday, July 1, 2012

OpenCollar - Fixing the Longfall Cuffs - Chains

I love the Longfall 8cuff set.  But any of us who've used them know that the chains won't work right.  At least, not with LockGuard.  It's unfortunate, but easy to fix if you're comfortable editing prims.  They're no-transfer, so you have to do this yourself.  But it's not that hard.  Here's how:

First, your cuffs must be unlocked.  You can't edit them if they're locked.  If you don't own the keys, you'll have to get permission to have them unlocked while you do this.

Second, sit on a toy that will use them.  Or, I suggest you at least turn off your AO so your avatar doesn't move around much as you try to click on prims.

If you sit on a toy, you'll see that the right wrist works.

Let's start with fixing the left wrist.  Right click on the left wrist cuff and choose edit.  It should get a haze around it and the Edit dialog box comes up.  You might see one prim that's yellow.  That's the root prim.  We don't care which is the root prim in this case, so ignore it.

Around the cuff are four little U shaped attachment points.  We need to edit one of those.  So, in the edit dialog box, choose the "Edit Linked" checkbox.  Now, you can select individual pieces of your cuff.  Select one of the attachment points now.

Find the name under the "General" tab of the Edit dialog.  We're looking for the one named "ollac".  Next, choose the Contents tab.  Inside you'll find a notecard called "Lockguard V2 Config".  Open it and change the contents to be what I have below.   You're after the ID lines, which I've bolded.

ID leftwrist
ID wrists
ID allfour
texture 245ea72d-bc79-fee3-a802-8e73c0f09473
size 0.07 0.07
life 1
gravity 0.3

Congratulations!  You've just fixed your left cuff!  Now chains will properly attach to it.  If you're sitting on a toy, cancel the animation and re-sit.  You should now see chains.

Now you need to do the same thing with the other cuffs.  Even though the right one seems to be working, open it and edit it to have the lines I have below.

Right Wrist

Prim Name: rcuff
Notecard

ID rightwrist
ID wrists
ID allfour
texture 245ea72d-bc79-fee3-a802-8e73c0f09473
size 0.07 0.07
life 1
gravity 0.3

Right Ankle

Prim name: rllc
Notecard
ID rightankle
ID ankles
ID allfour
texture 245ea72d-bc79-fee3-a802-8e73c0f09473
size 0.07 0.07
life 0.5
gravity 0.3


Left Ankle:

Prim name: lllc
Notecard:
ID leftankle
ID allfour
ID ankles
texture 245ea72d-bc79-fee3-a802-8e73c0f09473
size 0.07 0.07
life 0.5
gravity 0.3