"The Excellent" Teleporter
Go fast around the sim and earn money by selling access to restricted areas
Attention: ‘The Excellent’ Teleporter is no more available. It has been replaced by ‘The Mighty’ Teleporter.
Features
- The system is made of a Main Teleporter (to be placed at the starting point), a Return Teleporter (to be placed at the destination), a security system, named “Security Eye”, (to be optionally placed near the destination, to scan and eject intruders);
- The Teleporter range covers the whole sim;
- Fully configurable through the configuration notecard;
- The Security Eye can be activated to look for intruders and to eject them after the expiry of a rental;
- The Security Eye can check for intruders in the destination area when the Teleporter is not rented;
- The Security Eye can rez a whole scene (such as a skybox) when a rental is ongoing;
- The tenants can interact with Security Eye to admit other avatars in the destination area of the Teleporter;
- The owner can set the Teleporter to be used as a Pay Teleporter or set it to work as a free normal Teleporter;
- The owner can set how many pay buttons (up to 4) the Teleporter will show in its pay-menu;
- The owner can set the duration of the rentals (up to 4 possible durations) and the price for each duration;
- The durations can be set in minutes, hours, days or weeks;
- The rental fees can be split with one or more avatars (up to 5 avatars plus the owner);
- Up to 5 avatars can be the managers of the Teleporter (they can use it for free, end a rental, add time to the current rental);
- The Teleporter can be set to use the occupied/vacant feature;
- The Teleporter can be set to teleport both its tenants and their guests;
- The tenant can be allowed to extend his rental before its expiry;
- The Teleporter can be set to be used only by group members;
- The Teleporter can be set to be rented for free by group members;
- The owner can decide to receive a notification message every time a rental starts/expires.
CONFIGURABLE THROUGH NOTECARD
FREE LIFETIME UPDATES INCLUDED
COPY
MOD
NO-TRANSFER
NO-MOD SCRIPTS
Attention
To properly work, the Teleporter needs to be owned by the owner of the land. If the land is deeded to a group, the Teleporter must be owned by a member of the group that owns the land and the 'allow group to build parcel' flag has to be enabled in the properties of the land.
Manual & Resources
Basic installation guide
- Rez the Return Teleporter in the destination area, and copy the code it says in chat.
- Rez the Main Teleporter in the position you want (within the same sim, in an area accessible by users).
- Open the configuration notecard in the content of the Main Teleporter and paste the code in the first configuration parameter named “TELEPORT_CODE”.
- Edit the other configuration parameters (read well the included instructions and set them as you prefer);
- Edit the InfoCard (it will be dispensed through the touch-menu to all potential renters, so don’t underestimate it!)*;
- If you want to protect the destination area from intruders, rez the Security Eye near the Return Teleporter and edit its configuration notecard.
- Reset the Main Teleporter and grant the permission to handle your money**. Done!
* You can also rename the InfoCard by changing the second part of its title, after the dash, and resetting the Teleporter. If you remove the notecard from the content of the Teleporter, it will not be dispensed.
** See below the paragraph “About the request to take money from the owner” for more information.
Important notes
‘The Excellent’ Teleporter comes in two sizes. Don’t scale it: changing the dimensions of the Teleporter may break it.
If you move the Main Teleporter or the Return Teleporter after the initialization, you need to reset the Main Teleporter to synchronize the new positions.
To properly work, the Teleporters need to either:
- Be owned by the owner of the land;
- Be owned by someone in the group that owns the land, the ‘allow group to build parcel’ flag has to be enabled in the properties of the land, and the Teleporters have to be set to group;
- Be rezzed in a land where everyone is allowed to build.
If none of the above mentioned conditions are met, the Teleporters only work when their owner is inworld. This is a normal behavior of Second Life and there is no workaround.
The Main Teleporter and the Return Teleporter can be placed in different parcels within the same sim, but both parcels must be owned by the same owner (avatar or group). No parcel owned by others is admitted between the two parcels where the Teleporters are placed.
If the Security Eye is owned by someone who has insufficient permissions on the land, a red warning will be displayed on the device: “Security Eye must be owned by the same owner of the land”.
To be able to eject the intruders, the Security Eye needs to either:
- Be owned by the owner of the land;
- Be deeded to the group that owns the land.
Quick steps to setup the automatic rezzer
The automatic rezzer is used to automatically rez a scene/skybox while the Teleporter is rented.
- Before starting the configuration of the Autorezzer, you need to setup the Teleporters and the Security Eye;
- Manually rez all the pieces of the scene and place them in their exact positions (be sure all pieces are both copy and modify, or fullperm if the Security Eye is deeded to a group);
- Click on the Security Eye and choose Autorezzer > GET SCRIPT;
- Drop the ‘Scene component’ script you got in the previous step into each object of the scene;
- Click on the Security Eye and choose Autorezzer > Add scene;
- Take all the pieces of the scene and drop them into the content of the Security Eye.
Done. The scene will be automatically rezzed at the start of a new rental, and de-rezzed at its end.
TIPS:
- Link all unscripted pieces of the scene before step 4, so you will need to load a smaller number of scripts, causing less lag.
- If you want to automatically de-rez the scene if nobody is in range, click on the Security Eye and choose Autorezzer>Autoclean>Enable. This will save prims but will consume more region resources.
- Once the scene has been saved, you can move the Security Eye, the scene will always be rezzed in its first position.
What the colors of the Security Eye mean
- Yellow: The security system is not working and it needs to be configured or restarted.
- Blue: The security system is working, but it is not repeatedly scanning the area to eject intruders. A scansion will be performed only after the end of the rentals, to eject the tenants (and their guests).
- Red: The security system is scanning the area to look for (and eject) the intruders. If the Main Teleporter is rented, the Security Eye will not eject its tenant (nor his guests).
- Green: A rental is ongoing and the security system has been temporarily disabled, to allow the access to the area to anyone.
When the Main Teleporter is unrented, the Security Eye should be blue (if ‘security_mode’ in the configuration notecard is set to ‘no’) or red (if ‘security_mode’ is set to ‘yes’).
When the Main Teleporter is rented, the Security Eye should be green if anyone is admitted in the area, or red if only the tenant and a limited number of other avatars can access the area (including the owner, the managers and, if ‘guests’ is set to ‘yes’, the guests of the tenant).
Connecting the Teleporter to other devices
THE ‘OPTIMUS’ MULTIREZZER
‘The Excellent’ Teleporter can be linked to ‘Optimus’ Multirezzer by LOW Industries. If connected, the Multirezzer can be used by the tenant of the teleporting system to rez preset scenes (such as additional rooms of a skybox or optional furniture sets).
- Install and configure the Teleporters and, in case, the Security Eye;
- Rez the Multirezzer in the same area of the Return Teleporter (is should be visible by the users).
- Edit the configuration notecard of the Multirezzer, and enter, where needed, the teleport_code you used to configure the Main Teleporter and the Security Eye.
‘THE EXCELLENT’ AD BOARDS
‘The Excellent’ Teleporter can be linked to ‘The Excellent’ AD Boards to make it free for the tenants of the boards. The system requires the use of ‘The Excellent’ Server by LOW Industries (which is sold for free).
- Rez in the same region of the Teleporter the Server and the AD Boards you want to connect;
- Edit the configuration notecard in the content of the Teleporter and set the parameter ‘SERVER_CONNECTED’ to YES;
- Edit the configuration notecard in the content of the AD Boards and set the parameter ‘SERVER_CONNECTED’ to YES.
‘THE MOST TIPPED’ AND ‘THE BEST DONOR’ CONTEST BOARDS:
‘The Excellent’ Teleporter can be linked to ‘The Most Tipped’ Contest Board and to ‘The Best Donor’ Contest Board. If connected to the Contest Boards, the Main Teleporter becomes free for the most tipped avatar and/or the best donor. The system requires the use of ‘The Excellent’ Tip Jars.
- Be sure the Main Teleporter is placed within a range of 100 meters from the Contest Board;
- Be sure the Contest Board is placed within a range of 100 meters from the Tip Jars;
- Edit the configuration notecard in the content of the Teleporter and set the parameter ‘MOST_TIPPED_CONTEST’ to YES.
About the request to take money from the owner
Why does the Main Teleporter ask you to grant the permission to take money from your account every time you rez an it and every time you reset its scripts?
That warning is just a default message of the viewers and it is intended to inform you that the Teleporter will manage your money. This means that the Teleporter will be allowed to credit the money to your account, split the money with your managers and give refunds to your clients, when needed.
Don’t worry: the Teleporter will never take your own money, it just takes from your balance the money to split or needed for a refund.
So, when the Main Teleporter asks you to grant a request, click “Grant” and it will start to read the configuration notecard. Otherwise, it will be disabled.
Change log
v 2.4.2
- Solves various problems of the hover text that occurred with different configurations.
- Fixes minor bugs that caused some issues during the payments, with some configurations.
- Improves the updating system.
v 2.4.1
- New feature: the owner can set the maximum number of guests the tenant can take to the reserved area.
- Fixed a bug that caused the group members to be ejected by the Security Eye, even if the system was set not to eject them.
- Fixed a bug that freezed the menu of the Security Eye.
v 2.4
- New plug-in available! ‘The Excellent’ Teleporter can now be connected to your ApexBot!
v 2.3
- Bug fix: Solved a problem of the Security Eye that was rezzing the saved scene twice, when the Autoclean option was enabled.
- Bug fix: the Main Teleporter can now be set to be free and reserved only for a group.
- New feature: now the tenant of the Teleporter will receive via IM the messages about the expiry of his/her rental.
- New feature: when using the “Add time” button, the owner of the Teleporters can add 1, 5 or 10 units of time, even if these values are not specified in the configuration notecard. These values are also available when a rental is started by the owner for someone else.
- New feature: Security Eye can be set so that it won’t eject the members of a group.
v 2.2.1
- Security fixes.
v 2.2
- Unavailable changelog
v 2.1.1
- New feature: The Teleporters can now be set to be free for the the group they are set to, and for the group ‘The Excellent’ Server is set to.
- Bug fix: Solved a problem that caused a problem of communication between the Teleporters and ‘The Excellent’ Server.
- Fixed minor bugs and mistakes.
v 2.1
- New feature: The owner can decide how many times the rental can be renewed.
- New feature: The rental can be extended via Return Teleporter even if it started as a free rental.
- New feature: It is now possible to set TIMER_1 to 0, to disable the countdown; in this way it is possible to start a free rental while using the occupied/vacant feature.
- New feature: The owner gets a warning if it is necessary to deed the Security Eye to let the system work properly.
- New feature: The InfoCard can be renamed without setting its customized name in the configuration of the Teleporter.
- New feature: If the Group Inviter plugin is installed, the tenant can get a new invitation to the group via menu.
- Bug fix: The Security Eye alerts (and ejects) only the avatars that are in the owner’s land, even if the scansion range is set too big and crosses the boundaries of the land.
- Fixed minor bugs and mistakes.
v 2.0.2
- Fixed a bug that caused a problem while automatically rezzing scenes through the Security Eye.
v 2.0.1
- Fixed a bug that caused a problem with the Security Eye when the parameter “GUEST” was set to NO.
- Fixed a bug that caused in some rare cases the restart of the Security Eye during the installation of a scene to be rezzed.
- Fixed a bug that caused in some rare case a double rez of the saved scene.
- Improved compatibility of the autorezzer feature with the new version of ‘Optimus’ Multirezzer (v1.1).
- Fixed minor bugs and mistakes.
v 2.0
- New feature: Automatic rezzer! Security Eye can now be set to rez automatically a scene when the teleporting system is rented.
- New feature: The teleporter can be set to terminate the rental if the tenants leaves the rented area.
- New feature: The Security Eye can be set to eject the intruders to their home or to a near parcel.
- New feature: The owner can rename the InfoCard.
- New feature: The tenant can add the name of the people who can enter the area even if his guests are not around.
- New feature: The teleporters can now be connected to ‘The Excellent’ AD Boards, to ‘The Most Tipped’ Contest Board and to ‘The Best Donor’ Contest Board.
- New feature: The teleporters can be connected to ‘Optimus’ Multirezzer, to make the tenants able to rez multiple scenes while their rental is ongoing.
- New feature: The “Prim Counter” plugin is available for the Security Eye.
- Minor bugs and mistakes fixed.
v 1.1
- New option available: The Excellent Teleporter comes now also in “Mini” size. If you have both options you can mix and match the Main Teleporters and the Return Teleporters: they can work together!
- New feature: The old integrated security system is become the “Security Eye”; it has more features than the old one and it’s not inside the Return Teleporter, so it can be placed in a different position and allows the tenant to interact.
- New feature: The Teleporters can now be rotated to any position, so you can place them on the floor, on the wall, on a sloping floor, upside down…
- New feature: The Main Teleporter can now dispense an InfoCard through the touch-menu, so that the owner can include all informations he want about the rental.
- Bug fix: The Main Teleporter turns off the scripts it doesn’t need to use, so that it produces less lag.
- Bug fix: The Main Teleporter asks to be restarted only when the owner modifies the Configuration notecard and not the other contents.
- Bug fix: The links sent by the AD Board when it is rented and when it is clicked can now be used also by the users of the ‘old-style’ viewer.
- Minor bugs and mistakes fixed.
- Minor changes to the guides.
v 1.0.1
- Bug fix: The Teleporters weren’t able to work if they were more than 1000 meters away from each other. Now the maximum distance covers the whole sim (4100 meters).
- Minor bugs and mistakes fixed.
v 1.0
- First version for sale.