QuickySitter Pro Animesh Manual

Set up and adjust couples and group poses without a second avatar: the Animesh plugin rezzes a posable dummy onto any empty seat of the current pose. The dummy plays that seat’s animation and sits at its pose position. You adjust it through the QuickyHUD exactly like a real partner, and the result saves through the normal adjust workflow. You can do all of it seated, or stand next to the piece and build it from outside (see Remote authoring).

Note: This is a creator tool, delivered with QuickySitter Pro (Creator Edition) only, never with the Personal Edition. It is license-gated: on a piece without a valid creator license the plugin stays idle and the [ANIMESH] entry never appears. Finished customer furniture never receives it, and [FINALIZE] strips it off a piece before you sell.

Quick start

1. Sit on the furniture and select the couples / group pose you want to work on.
2. Open [ADJUST] → [ANIMESH]. The seat list shows the empty seats of the current pose.
3. Pick a seat, then pick a body from the numbered list, and the dummy rezzes on that seat and starts the partner animation.
4. Enter ADJUSTMODE (the [HELPER HUD] button in the seat list does it in one click and attaches the HUD) and SELECT the dummy in the HUD picker. It behaves like any sitter target.
5. Adjust position/rotation; saving works as usual ([SAVE] / [DUMP] into the AVpos notecard).

Repeat per seat: one dummy per empty seat, several at once for group poses. [OFF ALL] removes every dummy in one click; standing up cleans them up automatically.

Remote authoring: building without sitting down (1.28)

Everything above assumes you are sitting on the piece. You do not have to be. Stand within 5 m of the furniture and type:

/5 animesh

The piece answers with its own pose menu and the session begins. From there the work is the same, with one difference that matters: you can walk around the piece and look at the scene from outside while you build it.

1. Pick the pose you want to build. The menu stays open, so you can change your mind.
2. [ADJUST] leads to the session’s own page: [ANIMESH], [HELPER HUD], [DUMP] and [DONE].
3. [ANIMESH] opens the seat list, exactly as when seated. Fill the seats with dummies.
4. Drive them with the HUD: the arrows move, SELECT picks which dummy they move, MENU returns to the pose menu, RESET puts one back. Every change is saved as the pose default straight away, so there is no separate save step.
5. [DUMP] rebuilds the AVpos once you are happy, and the link arrives in chat.
6. [DONE] ends the session and clears the dummies, and it is the only thing that does.

Walking off, teleporting away, logging out or sitting down all end the session but leave the scene standing, so an interruption does not cost you a group setup. Clear it later with [OFF ALL] in the seat list, or with [DONE] in the next session.

Picking a different pose keeps the dummies on seats that pose does not use. That is deliberate: it is how you hold two solo poses side by side and judge one against the other. Seats the new pose does define are re-animated and moved into it as usual.

[HELPER HUD] hands you a HUD if you are not wearing one and takes it back when the session ends. The session also ends by itself if you sit down or leave the region, so nothing is left running behind you.

Sitting or standing

The two modes divide the work rather than replacing each other:

• Sit to create a pose and to judge how it feels on a real body, which is the one thing a dummy cannot tell you.
• Stand to build and position a couple or a group, and to see the result the way a visitor will.

Switching is free. Sitting down during a session hands you straight to the seated tools; standing up and typing /5 animesh brings you back, and your dummies are still where you left them.

Who may open a session

Remote authoring follows the Adjust access level in the [SECURITY] menu, the same setting that governs the seated adjust tools. On the default, OWNER, only you can open a session. Set it to GROUP or ALL and the people you have opened the piece to can build on it too, which is what you want when you build from a personal account while a store account owns the furniture.

On a piece without the security plugin the chat shortcut does the same job:

/5 adjust group

The level falls back to OWNER automatically when a piece changes hands, so a customer never inherits an opened setting.

Reaching the menu while adjusting

The [ADJUST] menu is not reachable while ADJUSTMODE or helper mode is active, so the plugin offers three shortcuts:

• Click a dummy: opens its body picker directly (change or [REMOVE] the body). Use right-click → Touch: a plain left-click often misses animesh objects (their click target is a static bounding box).
• [HELPER HUD] in the seat list: flips ADJUSTMODE on and attaches the HUD for you.
• Auto-offer: entering ADJUSTMODE alone on a multi-seat piece with no dummies out opens the seat list by itself after a moment.

The dummy bodies

Bodies are discovered by name: every object in the furniture inventory whose name starts with [QS]dummy appears in the body picker. The label is the rest of the name; the picker sorts in inventory (alphabetical) order.

The standard set (heights are mesh-measured):

(The x in the Kabuki names is deliberate: it sorts them after the sized set.)

Adding your own body, two ways:

• Name it [QS]dummyYourLabel and drop it into the furniture, and it is discovered automatically. The label must not contain a | character.
• Keep its own name and declare it in the animeshconfig notecard: ANIMESH <object name> | <description> (one per line, up to 10 entries, description up to 48 characters). The notecard is only for your own extras, and it is never overwritten by updates.

Updates refresh the standard [QS]dummy set automatically; bodies you added yourself are left untouched.

Requirements per body: copy-enabled, modify for the next owner, the “Animated Mesh” feature flag set, and the [QS]animeshReceiver script inside. Pose animations do not need to be pre-loaded: if the body lacks one, the furniture hands over its own copy on demand, which is why the furniture’s pose animations must be copy.

Around real avatars

By default, dummies yield to people:

• Someone sits down or swaps onto a dummy’s seat → the dummy is removed with a short chat note, and the avatar lands on the seat normally.
• Swapping an avatar with a dummy (trading places) is not supported, so the dummy simply yields.
• The operator standing up removes all dummies.

A Re-Sync restarts the dummies together with the real sitters, so SYNC poses stay in phase.

Showcase mode is gone (1.28)

Earlier versions carried a [SHOWCASE] toggle that kept staged dummies on their seats through stand-up, for photos and vendor displays. It existed to work around the fact that building a display meant sitting on it and then getting off. Remote authoring builds the same display without anyone sitting down in the first place, so the toggle has been removed. A standing session leaves its dummies in place unless you press [DONE], and for a seated one the yield-to-people behaviour above always applies. Set a display piece up with /5 animesh and finalize it as usual.

[FINALIZE]

[FINALIZE] in the seat list (owner-only, with a confirm dialog) strips the complete animesh kit off the piece: all [QS]dummy bodies, the animeshconfig notecard and all three plugin scripts. Run it on a finished piece before you sell it, and the customer copy then carries no trace of the tool.

Limits

• Dummies play body animation only: no facial (Bento face) animation; the dummy heads carry no face rigging.
• Rezzing needs free land impact; on a full parcel the plugin reports the failed rez and skips that dummy.
• Left-click selection often misses animesh, so use right-click → Touch.

Troubleshooting