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Costume Assistant/RLV

Some routines use the Costume Assistant for outfit changes. You must enable RLV on your viewer in order to use Costume Assistant.

Enable RLV

To turn on RLV, do the following:

  1. Open Preferences (Control-P).
  2. Click the Firestorm tab.
  3. Click the Extras tab.
  4. Select the Allow Remote Scripted Viewer checkbox.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Restart your viewer.

This will create the #RLV top-level folder in your inventory. If it doesn’t, then create a top-level folder called #RLV:

When an outfit notecard tells you to create an RLV folder, create it in here.

Top-level #RLV folder

As you can see in the image, that #RLV folder needs to be at the top-level.

If you move it elsewhere, you will break RLV. However, Celith and Lala report that it can be fixed:

I was able to fix my moved RLV folder by logging onto the official LL viewer and was able to drag it out of the clothing folder it was in and back into it’s proper place in FS. It works… tested it out with an outfit that uses costume assistant.

Configure Costume Assistant

Costume Assistant allows a choreographer to send commands that will add or remove items from your avatar. This allows for clothes changes when the clothes cannot be modified to use scripted commands.

You must purchase the Costume Assistant from Marketplace or Spot On’s in-world store.

You can find it on Marketplace at: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Spot-On-Costume-Assistant/5962411

To configure it:

  1. Create a master copy of your Costume Assistant.
  2. Wear it. It will appear as a star on your screen.
  3. Right-click and edit it.
  4. In the Properties window, click the Content tab.
  5. Open the !Configuration notecard.
  6. Update the end of the notecard to use the following settings:

    # Add the user names of individuals allowed to command your HUD
    # One name per line.
    Kalista Brooks
    Lagabertha Resident
    Lanisonia Resident
    Laura Demonista
    Letitia Larsson
    R Dismantled
    Sashajohansen Resident

  7. Save the notecard
  8. Then, copy and paste a link to that Costume Assistant into any routine that needs it.

When you put on the Costume Assistant, make sure that the star is gold (And before you say anything, Kanye, it’s a five-pointed star, not a six-pointed star).

And do not minimize your viewer. The Costume Assistant and RLV do not work properly if you minimize your viewer.

RLV stuff

If RLV is needed for an routine, you will need to create an RLV folder and put outfit pieces in it. The notecard will say what to call the folder and what to put in that folder.

It’s simple: Put a full copy of those outfit pieces in the main outfit folder.

Optionally, you can put a link to that item in your outfit folder so they attach when you first load the outfit. Laura or Sev will cycle the outfit to test RLV backstage. But do NOT put a full copy in the RLV folder and a full copy in the outfit folder. If you do that, you will wear two copies of each item and never appear to take them off in the show.

Here’s the full procedure:

  1. Create a subfolder in the #RLV directory.
  2. Name it what the notecard says to name it.
  3. Put a full copy of the RLV-ed items in that folder.
  4. OPTIONAL: Copy each RLV-ed item and paste a link into the outfit folder. NOTE: You cannot use control-C and control-V on no-copy items. You will need to right-click and copy, then right-click and Paste a Link.

My stuff is missing!

If you build your outfits with the item in the RLV folder and not in the outfit folder, it won’t appear immediately.

If you build it with the item in the outfit folder and a link in the RLV folder, it will appear immediately.

Relax.

After the routine

SL may re-add stuff removed or added by the Costume Assistant when the routine is done. Be ready to remove those things before the next routine starts.

Either take off the items from the #RLV folder or Replace current outfit on the next routine’s outfit again.

Testing

Say /44 addfolder FOLDERNAME where FOLDERNAME is the name of the folder you wish to add.

Say /44 removefolder FOLDERNAME where FOLDERNAME is the name of the folder you wish to remove.

Favorites

Do you use the Favorites feature in Firestorm? Drag the Costume Assistant into there so you can quickly add it.

Not that you should need to, since you put the Costume Assistant in the outfit folder… right?

Centering a photo tool

If you take a lot of photos, one neat trick is to put the star in the center bottom of your screen. That way, you have a visual marker for center without it appearing in your photos.

But if you don’t need the Costume Assistant for a routine, it’s best not to wear it.

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