Changes
Nov 18/22:
- Added: Added features to support a Recurring Event Server. One HUD is refreshed to get the latest event.
- Changed: Bot to support grid sizes other than 4x4. For example, 2x2, 3x3, 3x2,4x2, 8x2, 12x3, etc.
- Changed: Bot to support grid sizing on a transparent background instead of white; simplifies styling.
Nov 16/22:
- Added: Ability to specify a category that has a L$0 price, so that kiosk payment option is turned off.
- Added: Automated Event Closing (to the nearest second).
- Added: It's now possible to set the upper limit to the number of advertisements in an event.
- Added: It's now possible to set the upper limit by vendor for an event.
- Added: The ability to specify the thumbnail that appears on the index. Allows you to use client logos instead of shrunken ad textures for the index entry.
- Changed: Increased the number of sorting and pricing categories to ten (from three).
- Changed: The Image export now exports full resolution versions of textures and thumbnails and renames them with their Ad name so that when sorted alphabetically, they match the HUD display order.
- Hardened the Website and Server Security so that it's now virtually impossible for a third party to feed inventory to the server and have it appear on the HUD.
Roadmap
Planned Revisions (in Order):
- Create recurring events that use only one HUD, clients refresh their HUD to get the latest event.
- Note: This will require additional administration in Second Life.
- Note: This will require additional administration in Second Life.
- Produce a notecard of the event. This is for clients with slower computers or where you don't want to use the HUD, just the Notecard generation services. For each event by category, for each advertisement, it shows;
- Category Names
- Provides the Store / Location name.
- Shows the Ad name; name of the product, service, or description (63 characters).
- Embeds the landmark to the product / location.
- Embeds the notecard, if provided.
- Embeds the object, if it's provided with full perms
- Be careful about permissions, make sure the internal object is no-copy and possibly no-modify!
- Be careful about permissions, make sure the internal object is no-copy and possibly no-modify!
- Investigate to see if we can build a interface into CasperVend to make it easy to use it as the object source for the HUD, instead of copying from your inventory into our system.
- This is to make it much easier to distribute a subset of your product catalogue to your customers via a group notice, or an in-store or event giveaway like Uber, Access, Cosmopolitan, etc.