Pose stands are useful things, simply because they lock your avatar into a static ‘starjump’ position, which makes it easier for you to adjust prim items such as hair and attachments without your avatar’s head following your cursor, or your AO moving you around so you can’t grab hold of small things such as jewellery, to edit them.
You probably have lots of pose stands (sometimes called ‘posing stands’ or even ‘adjustment stands’) in your inventory (although I do urge people to search inventory regularly and purge these; you only need one of them!) but if you look at them you’ll see they all have one thing in common: they’re advertising the store you got them from. And it’s perfectly understandable that a store owner will want to put their store logo onto pose stands that they give out.
Making your own pose stand, however, is simple and fun, and you can put any textures on it that you like. Hop behind the cut to find out how.
First of all, you need to be in a place that allows building. This may be land that you own or are renting, or you may be using a sandbox. I recommend Kaemi Sandbox and Skybeam Sandbox; I’ve used both, and they’re good ones.
Before we go further, just look at that last pic. See how the texture is distorted on the sloped sides? Thats because you’ve ‘tortured’ them (a rather horrible way of saying that you’re used one of the deform tools, in this case the ‘taper’ tool).
The new script will pop up at the top of your Scripts folder, waiting for you to give it a name, so do just that!
All new scripts will have that “Hello Avatar!” written in them, but you don’t want that. You want a nice, blank script. So click to place your cursor anywhere in the script’s text area, hit CTRL+A to select all the text, then hit the delete key on your keyboard.
//Note: this code was adapted from someone.
Give your pose stand a name!
Pose stands don’t have to look like this, though. Once you have the script you can put it into any prim. Don’t want a pose stand in your home? Try putting the script into a nice, one-prim rug!
Thanks much just what i had been looking for and your instructions were crystal clear.I am a builder so it was prolly a little easyest for me but very nice tutorial and thank you very much for the script m8.
Thanks so much for posting this, I have been looking around for a pose stand script to use with OpenSim and was having a bit of trouble tuning my own coding to do exactly what I wanted it to.. this is perfect!
You’re welcome, and I’m glad that it works over there! I need to pop back over to OpenSim. I created an avatar over there some time ago but have been so busy in real life and with the blog in SL that I’ve not gone back recently. Any new developments? When I last logged in there I think the coders had just managed to get attachments to survive a relog, so I didn’t have to keep putting my hair on every time (which probably shows just how long it’s been since I logged in!).
Obrigado amigo. Funcionou perfeitamente. Thank you friend. Its working fine.