looking for Tutorials: how to make a shoe menu or complex HUD?

[Tenly]

rewriting my post as some folks do not seem to understand what I am looking for.

so really two questions

1st one does anyone have a good tutorial on how to create a menu. Or know of SL classes?

Example of menu: User clicks on item, menu with options pops up.

Example two: some shoes you click on and a menu pops up with buttons. Its not a HUD. But with the menu you can choose change texture, change color.

Other option: full fledged hud

my original goal was to purchase the scripts I found that do everything I need. however, the scripts dont come with a HUD, nor do they provide a tutorial on how to create one. I know how to make a simple 2 button HUD, but I need to make something more complex to work with the scripts.

In the finished HUD the user will be able to resize the shoe

change the skin color

change the toe nail color

change the texture of several parts of the shoe

change the color of several parts of the shoe

Yes I know I can purchase a HUD that does it all. Im trying to LEARN HOW TO MAKE A COMPLEX HUD. Not get advice on what I should be purchasing.

For example, I found Smartscripts for HUD by PXL. to use the scripts, you have to make your own hud. and  before I spend 3500 purchasing that script package, I first need to learn how to make a HUD. 

I have google searched. I have searched the knowledge base. Im NOT finding anything helpful. Even torleys video does not explain HOW to create one, only how to use one.

Seven Seas showed how to make a fishing hud. but it isnt complex enough for what I need. Ie it doesnt go far enough in teaching me what I need to know.

Please note, Im looking for helpful suggestions to help me learn. not your comments telling me I shouldnt be trying to learn to do what other people already know.

[Smoothie Perl]

in other words you search for the perfect shoe HUD and you want it for free

nice

scripters doing exactly that job and they don't do it for free

you pay for such script to make your HUD you like and that call "investment"

[valerie Inshan]

I cannot think of a more complete information page than this one:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials

You should find here the specific links answering your questions.

Have fun!

[Smoothie Perl]

ok 

I have to be more helpful to you, so here's my opinion:

You have two choices,

first it's to learn how you can make the script  to fit all your needs (and that demand a lot of time and effort)

or

you can find a good programmer and make a deal to make it for you.

[Tenly]

Smoothie, I didnt say anything about getting anything for free. Maybe you should try reading more carefully. Let me help you.

I said I had been looking at HUDS.

I said I could purchase a batch of scripts that does not come with a hud, for 3500. i.e the seller says you have to create your own hud. thats quite an investment for someone who does not know how to make the HUd to put the scripts in.

my other option is to purchase one of the shoe huds I found before I found the scripts. the one I like is about 1700.

I also know where I can get the scripts I need for free already, as well as for a much lower price than 3500.

regardless of what I pay or dont pay for scripts, Id LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO CREATe MY OWN HUD.

Everyone knows nothing before they sit down to learn something. Or maybe you were born knowing everything you know now? that must be amazing.

Now my question is for people who know something about creating huds. not writing or looking for scripts.

If you know anything about how to make a hud, great, if you dont....or you think its terrible for one person to try to learn how to make something themselves, maybe you should start a thread and get some votes against people coming to second life and trying to learn something new.

 

 

[Smoothie Perl]

I think from your way of posting, you completely misunderstanding me.

I said you can learn how to do it, by learning LSL yourself, but that it's hard and takes long time and effort (not impossible!)

I didn't wrote anywhere, that I'm the genious who knows everything.

If you want an example:

When I made one of my best selling products (some years back) I paid for a custom script 10000L$ and I've got it full permission. That was an investment for me and it paid me 100's times back.

If I tried to learn LSL I don't know when (or if at alI) could managed to put that thing out for sale.

That's a commerce principale. "If you have a good idea you can use any source (and help) you can to get it work for you in the most shortest time it's possible".

If something is already out there it isn't logic to try to re-invent it. Shoe scripts are out there for years and most of them are excellent.

Ofcourse you can go with your time and do the way you like. I didn't say you can't.

P.S. Participating in forum it's something I like to do trying to help ppl.

That I tried to do for you too.

[Tenly]

possible I misunderstood your post. perhaps it lost in the translation. I read it like sarcasm, and not at all helpful with regard to learning how to create a hud.

here is your post:

 

07-20-2011 01:36 AM - last edited on 07-20-2011 01:37 AM

you pay for such script to make your HUD you like and that call "investment"

in other words you search for the perfect shoe HUD and you want it for free :smileywink:

nice

scripters doing exactly that job and they don't do it for free :smileyvery-happy:

 

[Smoothie Perl]

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Tenly wrote:

possible I misunderstood your post. perhaps it lost in the translation. I read it like sarcasm, and not at all helpful with regard to learning how to create a hud.

here is your post:

 

07-20-2011

 

01:36 AM

 

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07-20-2011

 

01:37 AM

you pay for such script to make your HUD you like and that call "investment"

in other words you search for the perfect shoe HUD and you want it for free :smileywink:

nice

scripters doing exactly that job and they don't do it for free :smileyvery-happy:

 

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that is the first and a lil humorus but did ya read my almost immediate second post?

[Rolig Loon]

Part of the confusion, I'm afraid, is about what a HUD is. Basically, a HUD is just a wearable object -- usually a pretty simple one -- that consists of one or more prims.  The only thing that makes it different from any other wearable object is that you wear it on your screen instead of on your avatar.  Making one is often no more complicated than rezzing a prim and slapping a texture on it.  The part that makes it special is the menu script in the HUD. When you buy one, that's what you are paying for.

In the OP's case, the script needs to offer the user a selection of sizes, colors, and textures.  There are generic scripts that do these things ( See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Library/Basic-Resizer/td-p/713675 for a basic resizing script, for example, or http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Library/primset-bulk-prim-property-setter/td-p/714501 for a multipurpose script that can change any property of any prim in a linkset.).  The challenge is to take one or more of those generic scripts and incorporate it into a menu script that responds to clicks on the HUD.  That's usually a custom scripting job.  If you have the skills and time, you can write your own.  If not, you can save time by hiring a scripter to do it for you.

If you want to give it a try, begin with a basic dialog menu. There's a nice tutorial at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/DialogMenus that will get you pointed in the right direction.

[Tenly]

Already have access to scripts..it was just what to put them in to make them work. The ones I found market to "designers" so it has everthing I want. but gosh I dunno how to do a HUD. BUt, your note has been very helpful in pointing me in the right direction. I finally feel like I have at least one shoe going in the right direction.!

 

TY Rolig!

[Erindahla Rhiadra]

None of your replies were helpful. In future maybe stick to actually giving an answer that is pertinent to the question and actually HELPS.