Thank you for your interest in the TIS .
The first mesh in Second Life that can also keep in time with the music playing on your parcel!! This is undoubtedly the best in Second Life! We have taken our time to make sure that the product is as realistic as possible. Painstakingly created with 100% mesh and carefully textured to make sure you have the best of the best of the best in your venue!!!
Display
- Used in conjunction with the TIS StreamSync the lights display will be synchronized with the music playing on your parcels media stream.
- The product effects can also be manually set using the included TIS iControl Professional.
Build
- Based on real-life club equipment, each components look and display has been tailored to be as realistic as possible.
- Highly detailed 100% mesh design.
- Multiple Levels Of Detail (LOD) ensure your product looks perfect no matter what distance it is viewed from.
- Realistic texturing to every component.
- Just 8 prims for the unit!
- Scripting has been rigorously optimized to reduce sim overhead.
Convenience
- Fully copyable - set out as many as you need.
- Easily control speed to reduce load on laggy sims if required.
Control
- TIS iControl Professional included, quickly and remotely change the settings for the product, quickly and remotely change the display for the lights, set the colour, range of the lights, brightness and set manual BPM for the product.
- Settings notecard to manually set specific colours to be used.
- Allow selected others or your group to control the product.
Current version of the is v.
Release date of the current version is . To check what version you are running please see the Version section. Please also see the Troubleshooting tab if you are having any other issues to see if your query is answered there before contacting support.
On purchase you will be delivered a folder containing a box for your and a box for the TIS iControl Professional which controls all our products compatible with the iControl.
First drag the to the ground where it will automatically unpack and give you a folder containing your product. Accept this folder and it will appear in the top level of your inventory. You can now delete the product box (a copy is still in your inventory). Then drag the TIS iControl Professional box to the ground which will unpack and give you another folder containing the iControl. You need only to use one iControl to control multiple products.
In your inventory, locate the folder called TIS
.
In this folder you will find the following items:
- TIS
- This is the unit. It is copyable so you can use as many as your venue requires.
In your inventory, locate the folder called TIS iControl Professional
In this folder you will find the following items:
- TIS iControl Professional
- The TIS iControl Professional is the controller for this product. You will be able to use this controller to change various functions for the product. For more information about basic functionality of the iControl Professional, please see here.
First locate the "TIS " in your folder and drag it out to the ground in world.
Now position your bracket where you wish it to be in your venue.
As you can see there is no
as yet! The bracket will rez the Disco Ball itself once you click the On button on the iControl (please see the Using the iControl section on how to use the iControl. You will then get this message in chat if the product can rez correctly when you switch the Disco Ball on:
TIS : Attempting to rez for first use.
If the cannot be rezzed then the issue will be stated in chat to you as to why the rezzing cannot take place. For more information please see the Rez Check section for messages that you can receive in chat.
This products functionality can only be controlled by the iControl Professional. Please see the Using the iControl section for full details on finishing the set up, and how to use your product with your iControl Professional.
You will also find a notecard in the contents of the unit which allows you to adjust certain aspects of the product. Please see the Multi-Colour Values section for more information how to adjust these.
Please note, if after you have rezzed the , you wish to move the product to a new location you can either just move the bracket itself and then from the iControl select config and then Rez which will delete the current and re rezz a new one in the correct position or you can edit the Disco Ball and the Bracket together and move both at the same time.
If you ever need to delete the from in world, you will need to delete both the bracket and the itself.
For best results and to fully appreciate the , we recommend that you have the following client settings:
Set your World to Midnight!
To set your world to midnight to appreciate the lighting display, go to your client toolbar menu and select World > Sun Position > Midnight or click Ctrl + Shift + X
Obviously the will function perfectly well when it's daytime too, but when it's midnight.... Just WOW!
NOTE: As with any projector light, the properties of the surface the product shines on will affect the how the projection looks. In particular, projector lights will not be seen on full bright surfaces as they are already at their maximum brightness.
Graphic Preferences
We also recommend for optimum viewing pleasure that you set your graphic preferences to the following settings if your computer graphics can handle it. To open your Preferences window please click Ctrl + P. Set your Performance up to High and tick the Advanced Lighting Model box, the Ambient Occlusion box, set shadows drop down to Sun/Moon + Projectors. Also set your draw distance to about 600 or higher. Please make sure that you set your Objects & Sculpts LOD to 4.0 and Max particle count to max (8192).
Drag out the iControl Professional from your inventory to the ground in world or right click and select wear from your inventory to wear the controller as a HUD. If you require other people i.e. staff or managers to be able to control the product a controller must be out on the parcel that your product is located on. For more detailed instructions on how to use the iControl Professional, please see the TIS iControl Professional web page.
When first worn or dragged to the ground the iControl Professional will quickly establish connection to any devices available. The products communication channel is set to 0 by default. More information regarding communication channels and why you would ever want to use them can be found in the information page of the TIS iControl Professional. Information on how to change the channels can be found in the section Multiple Units using different settings.
Once the iControl Professional has established connection to the product you will see an icon appear representing the product at the bottom of the controller in the Product Selection panel.
Click the icon for TIS and you will be presented with this screen:
On pressing this button , the configuration drop down will appear which will give you the options for the product. If you have multiple 's out the configuration button will control all lights on that channel, not just the one it states on the drop down.
This restores the products sliders to their default state. It also acts as a reset, in which it will reset the values of the product to factory state
. This is very useful if you are dragging out multiple units as if you have changed any values, the newly dragged out unit will still only have the factory default settings. If you drag out two units pressing this Restore button will make sure that both units are displaying the same settings. This will not overwrite any adjustments made to any of the notecards.
When you click this button the product will reset and state this in chat:
TIS
: Loading Multi-Colour Values from notecard
TIS
: 10 colour values loaded.
On pressing this button will allow the product to notify in chat confirmations of button presses. This is especially useful so the owner or admin can know what settings have been changed when they click any of the buttons. The default setting is off.
On clicking this button, the bracket will check the land settings to make sure that the itself can be rezzed.
If the was set up correctly you should get the following message in chat:
TIS : Rez Check passed - can be created here.
If you receive this message you can successfully Rez.
If the bracket was rezzed on land that is group owned, but the group cannot create objects, you will see a message like this:
WARNING: Unable to create . Land is group owned, but members of the group cannot create objects. Please allow group members to Build in the About Land dialogue.
If the bracket was rezzed on land that is group owned but only the owner of the display can rez under that group not the group itself. You will get a message like this:
WARNING: Unable to create . Unable to rez lights when owner is offline. Please set (not deed) this to the group that owns the land.
If the bracket was rezzed on land that is set to a group but the has not been rezzed under that group, you will get a message like this:
WARNING: Unable to create . Please set (not deed) the to the group the land is set to.
If the bracket was rezzed on land that only the owner of the parcel or sim can rez, you will see a message like this:
WARNING: Unable to create . Land is individually owned, and only the land owner's objects are allowed to rez. Please talk to the land owner to get permission to rez here.
If the bracket cannot decipher what is causing it to fail then you will see this message:
WARNING: Unable to create . Unable to determine rez fail reason - Please contact TIS Support
After performing a rez check and having the confirming the Rez Check has passed, you will need to click the Rez button. This will rez all the light beams onto the rig itself. Your is now ready for use!
This is also useful if you wish to move the to a new location. If you select the bracket and move the bracket then click Rez again it will delete the current and re rez a new in the location you have moved the bracket to.
On pressing this button will either switch off the particle sparkles of the product or switch them on. The default setting is on.
Pretty self explanatory. Switch the product on and off!
These buttons represent the different light programs that you can use in your venue. Have a play with each programme to see which one suits your venue! The default setting is Static.
This slider allows you to manually adjust the Beats Per Minute for a specific song. The default setting is 120 BPM. If you own a TIS StreamSync and it is set up correctly, the BPM will automatically change to be in time with the music on your parcel.
This slider allows you to adjust the range of the projected lights. The default setting is 10 meters.
This slider allows you to adjust the brightness of the projected lights. The default setting is full bright (top of slider).
You will notice on your iControl Professional that there is an extra icon for the
called
Colour
.
On clicking this icon you will be presented with this screen:
As you can see this product has two lights pointing at the which means you can have two sets of colours being projected from the at any one time. Each light has a set of sliders like this:
These sliders allow you to manually adjust the colours of the lights. On pressing this button
on either light, will randomise the colours as set in the Multi-Colour Values notecard inside the product.
The default slider setting is White <1,1,1> (top of each sliders).
On pressing this button
on colour 2, will set the colour of the projected lighting for that light to equal the same as what colour light 1 is projecting.
On pressing this button
on colour 2, will switch off the light for light 2 which will reduce the number of spots
that are projected. This means that only light 1 will be projected.
This section is for more advanced user settings. You can use the product directly out of the box using the iControl Professional, but if you wish to have multiple units out on your sim with different settings you need to change channel communications.
To have more than one unit out, all you need to do is drag another from your inventory to the ground in world. If you require both units to be controlled with the same settings etc., then you need not do anything further with either unit, just use channel 0, which is the default channel number, on your controller to start, stop and adjust the other settings as usual.
Once you have placed the number of units you wish to have out you will then need to Restore
the units, by going to the Configuration via the iControl Professional. This will reset the values to factory state
. This is very useful if you are dragging out multiple units as if you have changed the colour to multi colour the newly dragged out unit will still only have the factory default settings. If you drag out two units pressing this Restore button will make sure that both units are displaying the same settings.
If you have more than one unit rezzed on the same sim and set to the same channel, one will become the master
. This master will perform all the script work to calculate colours/effects and then send the result to the other unit's, enabling all of them to synchronize their displays. As a result the Settings for the master will be used for all unit's. The master
will be chosen at random so you should ensure that this notecard is duplicated in all your unit's set to the same channel in order to achieve a consistent effect.
If you wish to have multiple units customized in different ways on the same sim, this can be done easily by setting one of your units to have a different channel to your first unit. To do this you will need to set the channel number for each additional unit.
To do this simply amend the description field of one the units as follows:
- Right click and select edit on one of the units.
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In the general tab of the edit dialogue box locate the description field this will already have text in there like this:
Channel : 0
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Set the new channel by editing this text so for example
Channel : 3
would set the channel to be 3. - If you are using Firestorm viewer go to the Content tab of the edit dialogue box and click the "Reset Scripts" button. If you are using the Second Life Viewer, you will need to go to the client tool bar (at the top of your screen) and click Build --> Scripts and then select "Reset Scripts". Any other viewer, you may need to refer to the viewers knowledge-base.
- On clicking Reset Scripts a dialogue box may pop up if you have never done this before asking you whether you wish to modify scripts in selected object - Just click yes - if no box asking that pops up, then the Reset Progress box will only appear and start going through each script in the unit and set them to running as in this example:
- When the dialogue box states done, press close.
- The unit that you changed will run through its setup.
You can now go to your main Control Channel page and in the Channel Selection panel select the new channel you set to now control the unit on that channel.
Do the above for any units that you wish to have on any other channel. You have in total 20 channels that you can use if you so wish.
If you edit your product and go to the contents tab, you will notice a Multi-Colour Values notecard.
Here you can stipulate the colours that the product uses. If your venue has a certain colour scheme, then you can add those colours here, removing any others that you do not require.
When any changes are made to the notecard, press save and wait for the confirmation:
TIS :
Loading Settings from notecard
TIS :
num colour values loaded..
Once you have received the confirmation, turn off your product to enable the product to take these settings then switch back on.
Access for this product can only be controlled via the iControl Professional. For details on how to set access for this product please see the instructions for the TIS iControl Professional.
Current version of the is v. Release date of the current version is .
To check the version of this product you are running please follow these steps:
- Right click the product and choose edit.
- In the edit window, select the content tab.
- In the contents tab there is a script called
~TIS vVersion
. Version is the version number.
If you are running an out of date product, please obtain a redelivery of the product package from our redelivery board in our store, Click here to go there!
Listed here are the most common FAQ's for this product. Before contacting support, make sure your query is not answered here.
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- Compatible with TIS Streamsync enabling lights to flash in time to the stream music
- Controller updated to the new TIS iControl Professional
- Now 8 prims
- Size corrected to be more realistic
- Perfect LOD for all 4 levels
- Bracket now pivots around correct point
- Smooth faces corrected to allow for shine without distortion
- Completely overhauled to provide smoother operation with less overhead
- Additional modes of Strobe, Fade and Random added
- Multicolour setting now steps through colours in notecard order instead of random
- Static multicolour mode now symmetrical
- Version 2.00 - 2012-03-21
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- Mesh Version
- Version 1.00 - 2010-06-09
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- Initial Release