¶ Workshop Part One
¶ Introduction
GTFO is a fun activity that gives an opportunity to explore the SL mainland by hauling cargo from hub to hub. Maybe this will be a chance for you to explore places on the SL Mainland that you haven't seen before and get to know the different routes around the mainland.
In theworkshop we will a) Show you how to convert an ordinary Dogcart to a cargocart and b) Show you how to add different cargo to the cargocart and also how to implement the loading/offloading routine in GTFO. We hope that you enjoy this, and if you run into any problems
while converting, don't hesitate to poke Camilla or Magic.
¶ 1. What edit skills are needed?
1.1 How to edit a certain object in a linkset.
Right click on the linkset→ Edit→ Edit linked→ click on the wanted object you want to edit
1.2 How to unlink of one object out of a linkset
right click→ edit→ select edit linked→ click on a linked object and make sure it alone is highlighted → click unlink→ confirm→ check you can move it without the rest of the linkset
1.3 How to link an object to an existing linkset with keeping the root prim
In a linkset the rootprim is marked yellow, all others blue, the last one added to a linkset will always be the rootprim.
Edit first the object you want to add→ press and hold [Shift] and click next the linkset last you want to stay the rootprim (for example the cart with the invis sledge object as rootprim)
1.4 How to move a prim
In the edit tab next to link/unlink is a button where you can toggle World and Local
World means the object movement is exact along the sim directions
X= West-East
Y= South-North
Z= up and down
Local means the moving directions are along the objects orientation. You can move a prim along the object angle.
If you toggle you can see how the arrows swap when the object has an angle >zero/90°/180°/270°
1.5 How to rotate an object
Enable [Snap] in the edit menu and click and hold the object you want to rotate and press and hold [Ctrl] and the arrows will swap to 3 coloured circles to show you the rotation directions around X,Y and Z. Keep [Ctrl] pressed and click the rotation circle you want to rotate. Remember to select World or Local to rotate in the specific directions.
1.6 How to reverse an action
If any movement of a linked prim went wrong press ctrl + Z and the action will be done reverse.
On the other hand with Ctrl+Y you can back to where you came from.
After checking these, maybe more advanced, Edit skills will now move on in our workshop with a more practical “hands on” part.
We will show you a way to make a cargocart out of the dogcart from Marine. For anyone not owning a dogcart yet, the nearest vendor is down at our harbour here on Pike. If anyone wants to purchase one, here is the LM
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tall%20Tails%20Pike/189/81/23
¶ 2. How to start
This workshop will refer to a default Dogcart from Marine out of the box. Rezz now a default dogcart out of the box in front of you.
2.1 How to set the cart to NO Action
In the cart menu an owner only option will be shown The button is named [Action] and when you toggle it you can swap through the options return home, self destruct and no action.
We set the cart to no Action for this workshop. It’s important to get this step right as an idle cart may return home or self-destruct after 1h of idle time if it is not set. This saves you from the pains of losing progress on your work.
2.2 How to position the cart
To have an easy way to add and remove parts we rotate the cart to X= 0, Y= 0, and Z= 0
Next we move the cart to Y= next whole number without decimals (like Y= 26.00 for example. These numbers can be found in the object tap in the edit menu. For safety reasons we can set this position to home in the cart menu now to have a way to get the cart back to the start position.
2.3 how to save progress.
Modding a cart can be a complex process that involves many steps. To avoid losing any work it’s highly recommended to save your work as you go along. Saving the work you’ve changed is automatically done when you take the cart back into inventory. But, since you easily can lose track of the version you're working on (since carts are copy, and you will have several named the same in inventory), we suggest that adding version number and an identifiable name f.ex Cargocart 1.1.. 1.2 etc
2.4 How to check the physics
¶ 3. How to remove parts which are not needed
3.1 Next we want to remove things from your cart to make room for a different cartbody to make the Cargocart as the goal of this workshop. The process for this involves using the edit linked principal that was explained earlier. To recap Right click cart, choose edit linked end select the item you want to remove. Make sure you have only the item you want to remove selected, this is indicated by the blue halo around the object. Click the unlink button in the same window (under the checkboxes)
Please start unlinking and moving aside (and deleting) the following list of object we don't need anymore:
3.1.1 both back seats. The back seats are 2 separate objects we don't need anymore
3.1.2 the cart body itself
3.1.3 the cage bars, but please rename that to dogcart cage bars and take it back to your inventory. We may use it in an advanced step to add it later.
3.1.4 The backdoor only, the chains remain for further usage. Rename each chain from default ‘Object’ to ‘Chain’ Move both chains on the Y axis 1 meter further to the back
You should be now all at this step here now as shown by number 4
¶ 4. How to add new things to your cart
4.1 Now to the fun part. Adding parts to the cart is why we do this modding. This can be as easy as adding a panel for your own decals, or adding lights, or more advanced features like swapping out the body. The last part is needed for the Cargocart and will be covered now in a step by step workshop
4.2 The new Cartbody
Now you pick a copy from the cartbody giver on the forklift over there and rezz it behind your striped cart.
Look that you have the same orientation X=0, Y=0 and Z=0 and the same whole number Y for the position as before for the dogcart (for example as before Y=26.00)
Next you move the new cartbody along the X Axis under the stripped cart till the front of the new cartbody align with the front bracing.
The next step is to move the new cartbody up on the Z Axis till in literally “rests” on the frame
Now link the new body to the cart with right click on the new cartbody and press/hold shift while clicking the striped cart and select [Link]. When done right the invis sledge prim will still be highlighted in yellow. That is so important, that is the root prim!
¶ 5. How to adjust the new cargocart
In the next steps a few linked objects need to be adjusted. We will go through this step by step.
5.1 the cage.
The new cart still has a cage but with a hidden wooden door under the front seats. Click it and the hidden door will open and will close on the next click. Leave it open for now. In this next step we will move the Cageseat from the old position with a 180 degree turn to the new cage.
Click the cart, select [Edit linked] and click the back seat, press and hold [Ctrl] and rotate the seat by 180 degree. Next move the prim on the X Axis inside the new cage and adjust it in the height (Z Axis). Exit edit with [esc] and click the cage door. This step is done.
5.2 The front seats
We start with a right click on the cart, select edit and select [Edit linked]. Next we click on one front seat, press/hold [Shift] and click on the second front seat. Now both seats should be highlighted in blue and show the arrows. The next step is to move both seats together on the X Axis towards the front of the new cartbody till they fit over the cage. Exit edit with [esc].
5.3 The driver and passenger railings
We start again with a right click on the cart, select edit and select [Edit linked]. Next we click on the railings and move them along the X Axis till it fits on the ney Cartbody. The width needs to be increased as the new body is a tad wider. The easiest way is to go to the Object tab in the edit menu and set (at dimensions) for Size X= 1.49 That will do and we close with [esc].
5.4 The backdoor
The new cartbody has a working backdoor! !Important now is to click only once on the backdoor and let it open! Now again we need a click on the cart, select edit and [Edit linked]. Next click on a chain, press/hold [Shift] and click on the other chain. Make sure you have only selected the 2 chains. Move both chains together along the X Axis till they fit the backdoor. Maybe each chain needs a bit adjustment in the final position. Now you can click on the backdoor again and close it. When done right the chains disappear when closing the door and get visible on opening the door.
¶ 6. How to reset the cart
6.1 The reset of a cart
At this point you all should have a new Cargocart in front of you with a swapped cartbody and things aligned in position. Now we came to the most important step after each cart modification. Be sure and double check the following things:
- The cart is set to No Action
- The front door is closed
- The backdoor is closed
We will reset the whole cart which makes sure the certain things will work as expected.
Click the cart and select in the menu [Maintenance] Here you click [Reset]
6.2 The final check
Hop on the cart and check the seating animations, check the hitch menu, check the wheel rotations and the steering. All should be fine as expected if you followed the Step by Step manual so far.
6.3 The Physics Check
After modding and adding new things to the cart we should check the Physics again. After the cartbody swap it should show you 18.7 for the physics of the cart. That seems lighter as before but with adding cargo later we will get back to where we started. For now we are good, more on this in an additional step.
6.4 The adjusting of the pony‘s view
As we moved the new body and the seats a bit towards the pony we need to adjust the view of the pony. For this we need to understand that the cam position is loaded with a NC from the cart to the pony strap. To adjust the cam position we need to edit the cart and go to [Content]. There you can find a NC called *Seat pony.
Open this NC with a double click or a right click and select open.
Find the line camerapos = <0.0, 2.3, 1.25> # normal view
and change this to camerapos = <0.0, 1.95, 1.25> # normal view.
Now click [Save] at the bottom of the NC and close it.
Next open the Menu with a click on the cart and select [Config...].
There you can find several presets like Chained, Hobbled,Tight, Normal and Pony.
Press Pony and wait till the chat will confirm with Strap: Seat ready, 2010 B free.
What happened now is that the cart sent the edited NC with the new cam position to the strap.
Please check now if the view is okay for you. In case you are not sure it worked you can select an other setting first and then select Pony again and resit again.
6.5 The set to home
After each reset on the cart a few things are set per default:
-The cart is set to return home after 1 h without use and the home position is set to the actual position on this sim. That means that if you are riding here on the sim and leave the cart it will return and appear here just where we stand. To avoid this we have several options. We set the cart to self destruct in the Action settings.
We rezz the cart at another sim, best where we never will cart like a sandbox, and set home there. (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shermerville%20Central/128/93/27)
7. Summary
At this step we would like to summon up this Part One of our workshop.
We showed you
- what edit skills are needed
- how to dismantle a default dogcart
- how to swap the cartbody
- how to align remaining parts of the cart
- how to reset the cart
- how to adjust the final settings
¶ Workshop Part Two
¶ 8. Introduction Workshop part two
Welcome to our PMC Workshop Part Two. In the first part on Friday we focused on the cargocart itself and how to swap a cart body. You can do that with any other cartbody as long you focus on the physics and dimensions.
In our Part Two we want to focus on adding Cargo goods and getting the cargocart ready for GTFO which shows a unique loading routine. Alexis made a great Video to show what's possible and what we are working for today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47UbFBnnlF4
8.1 Steps to get your cart GTFO ready:
- Rez your Cargocart that we made in Part One of this workshop. .
If anyone doesn’t have this cargocart ready, don't worry just rezz your own cart and try to adapt the steps we show you. - For ease of edit place it at 0 rotation on the X Y Z axis
Move it to the next whole number on the Y axis (for example Y=26.00) - Rez a square prim and size it to X=1.00m Y= 1.40m Z=0.10m
Move it behind your cart on the same whole number on the Y axis (for example Y=26.00) Rename that prim to CARGO!0 - Get a choice of 8 equal or different cargo containers from the marketplace.
The size of the prim shows you the dimensions we have on the cargocart.
When you’re happy with the placement of it, then edit every prim that you placed and rename them to CARGO!x [x changes on each prim so you will end up with CARGO!1-CARGO!8] - Once you renamed every cargo part, then select them all and link it to the prim underneath.
Select [Edit linked] and click your CARGO!0 prim and change the transparency to 100% or add a transparent texture
Move the now linked cargoset onto the cargo space in your cart - Before linking the cargo to the cargocart, we need to make sure that the cart is prepped for GTFO.
The process for doing this is to get the GTFO scripts from the GTFO vendor that is next to the gas station.
Once you have this, please look for the scripts named: !GTFO! CARGO V1.9.0a PERMED and !GTFO! Vehicle API script 1.9.0a PERMED. - Right click your cargocart and right click and choose edit.
Go into the content tab of the edit box.
This will list all poses and script currently in your cart, once it’s done loading pull the 2 scripts mentioned before over to the contents tap so that they are copied onto the cart - To tell the scripts what sort of cart you have and the available capacity there is, a settings note card has to be created.
Therefore, create a notecard in your inventory and name it GTFO!DOGCART.
Once done, open it and put in these lines:
qty=8
secs=5
The reason for these settings is that the Dogcart which we are using as a base for the cargocart is listed in the GTFO as a small vehicle that will have a carry capacity of 8 units.
The “secs=5” indicates the load time for each cargo that is loaded.
Close and save the changes when done, and then pull the notecard you created into the content tab of your cart.
Done correctly you should get a message saying this in chat: [Name of your cart] : GTFO! Vehicle ID set to: DOGCART.
- Edit the cargo and link it to the cargocart as explained earlier.
Remember to first choose the cargo then the cargocart when selecting link targets. Selecting the cargocart last makes sure that the Cargocart is the root prim.
- Now let's have a look at physics again.
We covered how to check the physics weight of a model in the first part of this workshop, but to reiterate shortly. Right click cart and choose edit, under where it says world there is an underlined text that says ‘more info’. If you click that you will get a popup that’s called advanced. 2nd line in the Weights of selected will show the physics number.
When you check the physics of your cart now, you will notice it has changed. That is because of all the added and linked prims.
The default dogcart is around 22, a cart which will have over 32 will never move and give you error warnings
A cart with 29 will feel very heavy and hard to steer. So the easiest way is to try to get your cart back to 22
After the cargo is linked to the cart, choose edit and edit linked and for every cargo and the prim underneath remove it from the physics of the cart.
This is done by choosing edit cart, then edit linked, choose the prim you want to edit, then go into the feature tab of the edit window.
Under Physics shape type choose ‘none’ from the pulldown menu. While you’re in this menu, notice also the eye icon next to the pulldown menu.
Clicking on this icon while in edit mode (not edit linked) will show you what’s included in the physics model of the cart.
Cargocarts can be made with many different shapes and object, but for this workshop we’ve selected simple objects. This should result in a low physics number of the cart. Depending on what you choose later on this may physics number might be higher. We recommend that the physics stays under 22
- Once you’re done, close the edit menu and click the cart.
Be sure and double check the following things:
The cart is set to No Action
The front door is closed
The backdoor is closedOnce you have verified this go to maintenance and then choose reset.
Dont forget to set home of your new cart to a sandbox like
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shermerville%20Central/128/93/27
- If you’ve done these steps correctly, then you should have a cart that is ready for GTFO and that will show cargo loading and unloading in sequence.
To explain what we have prepared now: If you start the GTFO delivery the game assumes your cart is empty and all cargo units with be set invis. With loading your job one unit after the next will get visible till the job is completely loaded (which takes 45 sec)
- Once you're done with these steps, go over to a GTFO Hub and see wheter the card will load as in the video shown earlier. The closest hub should be our very own at Orchard: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serpentata/143/56/117
¶ 8.1. How to make a 2 pony variant out of a dogcart
We start with rezzing a Dogcart or your already edited Cargocart in front of you. Edit and rotate it to X=0, Y=0, Z=0 and move it to the next whole number on X Axis and Y Axis.
- Now make a copy and place the second cart on the same number on the Y Axis. both carts should be exactly placed next to each other. In the next step we unlink the strap from the second cart (with edit→ Edit linked→ click on the strap→ Unlink
- Delete the rest of the cart, only the strap remains.
Advantage is now the sec strap is perfectly aligned in height and Y Axis - Now move this strap to the cart behind one pipe of the frame
Edit linked and click the other strap and move it to the other side just around the other pipe.For the bar in front of the ponies rezz a cylinder prim and set for the size
X=0.05 Y=0.05 and Z=1.4 and for the rotation X=90°.
Set for the position Y the same whole number as the cart (for example Y=21.00) It should be centered to the cart - Now move it in front of the straps connecting with the frame
Tint it black or any other colour or texture you like and add the same glossiness as the rest of the frame which is Low per default.
Still in edit menu now click the pipe, press and hold [Ctrl] and click next the single strap and last the whole cart, click [Link] and make sure the sledge prim is still yellow highlighted.
If it is not possible cause of missing the same permissions make sure the bar and the straps and the cart have all the same permission copy / mod / no transfer - Now important edits last! In the edit menu select [Edit linked] and click a strap, go to the General tab in the edit menu and rename them to ‘Left’ and the other one to ‘Right’.
Now again the reset routine as done earlier. - Be sure and double check the following things:
The cart is set to No Action
The front door is closed
The backdoor is closed - We will reset the whole cart now which makes sure the both Pony straps will work as expected.
Click the cart and select in the menu [Maintenance] Here you click [Reset]
Please check the hitch menu if Left and Right now appears and connects to the defined straps.
Please speak up if anything isn't as expected and if any questions are left.
That was the way how to mod a 2 Pony cart out of a default cart.
HAPPY GTFOing