Holiday Fun at Something Spunky
Vesta is busy at work in Santa's Workshop.
Imagine this sweet little rendeer's surprise when she saw who was standing behind her!
The little elves at Something Spunky’s workshop are hard at work, putting together fun holiday surprises for all the good and bad boys and girls (and a few for the ponies too!)
This year we are excited to be developing two *new* products, in addition to our past holiday favorites. Many people have come to love dear old Spanking Santa and that frisky Bondage tree. And the Slave Serving Platter has also become a fixture on many a holiday table. For those who like to play Santa themselves, we have Santa’s Spanking Chair, which comes complete with a Santa outfit for the user.
This year, we are adding an oh-so-cute Reindeer Pony-girl AO, complete with bells, snow, lights (all of which you can turn off or on), and a spunky little tail and red nose too!
And….in response to many suggestions…we are bringing Santa’s dear wife to Something Spunky with the new Naughty or Nice Mrs. Claus! Now those who prefer their holiday discipline/rewards from one of the fairer sex can get their needs met from out loving (but stern) Mrs. Claus. At only 6 prims, she is an carefully sculpted work of art. She spanks, whips, gives cocoa, and even teases a bit with her feet. We don’t want to give all our secrets away though, so stay tuned for our release announcement and hurry over to see her as soon as she comes out!
I will be adding more links in the coming days…and even some videos of the products in action. Check back soon!
~Vesta
Another Spunky Day
I’m sitting here this morning, trying to decide what to work on next. I have a nasty cold, and it isn’t helping my creative process. I started out working on some submissive animations for collars and possibly a revised submissive AO. Those are really fun to bang out, so I hope they look good when I upload them to SL
Also on the plate for today is working on the revised Thrones. Innula and I are really excited about putting out a new line of super deluxe thrones. They will be beautifully sculpted, low prim, and should have something for everyone. Innula is hard at work giving them delicious RLV Options, and other fun features that I am not yet ready to reveal (ooh secrets!!!)
So…today I will go through the animations on the old thrones and start taking notes about what I’d like to revise and add. Maybe I’ll be impulsive and do a few of the animations right there on the spot. Who knows?
What kinds of animations will the new thrones have? Well…I know for sure I want to add a vampire menu and a smoking fetish menu. I have to think on some other stuff. Please feel free to send suggestions if you have any!
Intro to RLV Class Outline
Intro to RLV
Something Spunky, Freedonia, 9/11/11
What is RLV?
RLV is short for Restrained Love Viewer (used to be Restrained Life Viewer). RLV allows suitably scripted objects (e.g. MLPV2 items with the Something Spunky RLV add-on) to do things to the victim — take off her clothes, stop her talking or standing up and so on — that otherwise scripts can’t do.
Who uses RLV?
- submissives
- roleplayers
- anyone
What are some fun things RLV can do?
- Catch and force sit on objects
- force animate
- mute chat or IM
- force TP
- forbid inventory
- forbid TP
- force dress (think about dressing up boys as girls, girls as frogs, girls in sexy outfits, etc.)
- force strip
Safeguards~Do not fear the RLV!
- safeword
- settings on relay to approve requests
In dire emergencies, you can always disable RLV in your viewer’s preferences or debug settings and relog.
How do I use it?
For any RLV-scripted item to work, the victim must be using either the Restrained Love Viewer itself or a viewer that includes RLV. The victim must also wear an item known as an RLV Relay, so that the scripts in the bed, or whatever, can talk to the victim’s viewer. The person controlling the furniture, the Dom/me, doesn’t need to use a relay or any special viewer. The victim does, but no one else has to.
Viewers available
- Restrained Love Viewer
- Phoenix
- Singularity
- Firestorm
- Imprudence
- Emergence
- Dolphin
- Cool VL
Enabling RLV in preferences
// nb this varies from viewer to viewer (in some viewers it’s on by default) but you can always address it by going to DEBUG SETTINGS Restrained Love and setting it to TRUE or FALSE
Using a Relay or collar:
For RLV to work properly, the submissive must have an RLV Relay activated. Most collars have one built in. Note that the RLV Relay in collars is separate from the collar’s normal RLV functionality and usually has to be activated separately. Consult your collar instructions for info on activating it. OR USE A SEPARATE RELAY — this is often preferable to using the one in your collar because it’s normally easier to access.
#RLV Folders
Play time
Try out RLV on a variety of toys. Audience may want to break into pairs.
Free gifts:
- Relay
- Sim Spinner (not really needed so much anymore with new viewers having TPs at top bar)
- RLV Capture Cage
Resource List
- List of non-linden viewers: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Downloads#non-linden
- somethingspunky.wordpress.com
MLPV2~RLV Add-on Walk-through
Now that you’ve got RLV added to your MLPV2, you probably want to use it! The menus are pretty easy to just go through on your own, but I’ll go through the basics here. If you have never used RLV before, please look here
Main Menu
The first thing you have to do is click your item to get the main menu. If you don’t see RLV on it, you most likely need to restart (see last step of installation instructions).
Main Menu (You'll have different buttons on your item, but the RLV Stuff Button will be the same)
Catching a Victim
To catch a victim, you must have poseballs rezzed. Just pick a pose, any pose, from the Main Menu. If you don’t, you’ll get this message in chat when you click the RLV button:
Go ahead and click the RLV Stuff Button once you have poseballs rezzed. You will get another pop-up like this:
If you have someone in the area using RLV, go ahead and click Yes. If there is someone in the area using RLV, and with a relay on, you will get a menu asking if you want to catch them. If nobody is in the area, you’ll get a menu like this:
If you get this, make sure the intended victim has their RLV Viewer and Relay Activated
When you find someone in the area and click to catch them, you’ll get a menu like this (Mine says Innula because that’s who I caught)
Pick any of the buttons and play around with it. If you choose to restrict her, you can stop her from hearing, seeing, IMing, accessing her inventory, etc. You can also prevent her from standing. If you click Undress, you’ll get stripping options, you can also dress her in various outfits from her #RLV folder if you choose Dress. (See more about #RLV folders in this tutorial)
Here is the Menu for the other restrictions:
Using RLV–Just the Basics
Using RLV–Just the Basics
Those who are seasoned RLV Users, can skip this. This is a very basic intro to RLV, for more info, please view the links provided.
RLV is short for Restrained Love Viewer (used to be Restrained Life Viewer). RLV allows suitably scripted objects (e.g. MLPV2 items with the Something Spunky RLV add-on) to do things to the victim — take off her clothes, stop her talking or standing up and so on — that otherwise scripts can’t do.
For any RLV-scripted item to work, the victim must be using either the Restrained Love Viewer itself or a viewer that includes RLV. The victim must also wear an item known as an RLV Relay, so that the scripts in the bed, or whatever, can talk to the victim’s viewer. The person controlling the furniture, the Dom/me, doesn’t need to use a relay or any special viewer. The victim does, but no one else has to.
To use the RLV add-on you, assuming you’re the submissive reading this (or your submissive, if you are the Dom/me) need an RLV Viewer and an RLV Relay. Only the person having the RLV used on them (the sub, victim, whatever you want to call them) needs this RLV stuff.
RLV Viewers
The submissive must be using an RLV enabled viewer. In some cases the RLV must be turned on in preferences. Please see the following sites for more info:
Marine Kelley’s Restrained Love Viewer
There are lots of third party viewers out there that use RLV. Go to this site to find one you like:
Other Third Party Viewers Most third party viewers, other than Kirsten’s, have adopted RLV. Such viewers include Phoenix, Firestorm, Emergence, Imprudence, Singularity, and Dolphin. Cool VL and Catznip, which are not on the official TPV list but are excellent viewers, nevertheless, also include RLV.
RLV Relay
For RLV to work properly, the submissive must have an RLV Relay activated. Most collars have one built in. Note that the RLV Relay in collars is separate from the collar’s normal RLV functionality and usually has to be activated separately. Consult your collar instructions for info on activating it.
Alternatively, the submissive can wear an RLV Relay as a separate item (normally a Hud). There are several RLV Relays available free in the SL Marketplace. One such is the tkPBA relay, made by Think Kink. There is a giveaway box for these in Something Spunky if you need to pick one up.
#RLV Folders
If you want to be dressed up (or dress up your submissive) in all kinds of fun outfits, you need to use #RLV folders. To see detailed instructions on this, visit this tutorial
How to Install the MLPV~RLV Add-On
1. Check to make sure your object has the right engine This Add-On will only work with items using the MLPV engine.
If your item uses MLP, it can be easily upgraded to MLPV. If your item uses another system, then this will not work. The MLP/MLPV Engine is the scripting that allows a furniture piece to rez poseballs and generate menus. If your item does not rez poseballs, you know for sure it’s not MLP/MLPV. If your Item does rez poseballs from a menu, then it may be MLP/MLPV.
The easiest way to tell if your item is using an MLPV-based engine is to start it up and then click it to get a pop-up window. The first menu window that comes up should tell you the version of the MLPV engine (If it’s an MLPV). If your item says MLPV2.0 or higher, you have an MLPV and you’re all set.
 MLPV Main Menu. Note that it says MLPV2.X in heading. If your item says this, you're all set!
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 This is an older MLP Menu. It does not mention that it's an MLP. This needs an upgrade to MLPV |
If this doesn’t work for some reason, you can always look inside your object. Just click it, pick edit from the pop-up menu, and then go to the contents tab on the editing window. Look at the items in the contents window. You should see, among other things, notecards that say .MENUITEMS, .POSITIONS, as well as scripts that say ~poser.
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 Contents for MLP. Note the scripts are called ~pose1, ~pose2, not ~poser1, ~poser2 You will need to upgrade. |
If your item is a plain MLP, then you need to upgrade to MLPV, following the simple instructions at this link.
2. Prepare your item for easy installation.
Rez the box entitled MLPV~RLV Add-On, Open it, and save the contents to inventory. (Click the item, choose Open from the pop-up. Look in your Recent Items in your inventory to find the items you just added to your inventory.)
Click on the MLPV item you are upgrading and then choose Edit, then go to the Contents Tab of the Edit Window. Locate a script in your Recent Items called MLPV~RLV Receiver Script and drag it into the Contents Tab of the MLPV item you are upgrading. Once you see the script in your Contents Tab, your item is ready for installation.
 Receiver in Inventory |
 Receiver Placed in Your MLPV Item |
3. Installation
Look in your Inventory for an item called MLPV~RLV Add-On Installer Click this Installer and rez it by dragging it to the ground near your MLPV object to be upgraded. It should look like this….
Installer. Rez near your item.
Now Touch it by clicking on it, and the installation process should begin. The Installer will tell you when the process has finished.
4. Restart your MLPV Item
To Restart your item, just click for a menu, then choose Options, then choose Shutdown, then choose Restart. This can take a few minutes.
5. Try it out!
Click your MLPV item to start it if it hasn’t started yet. Click again to get a menu.
You should now see an RLV Options Button in the menu.
For more information on using your new RLV enabled item, please visit the Directions Page.
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