Choosing an Avatar

When you first get Vivaty Scenes on Facebook or AIM, you will be prompted to select an avatar. Currently, you can have one avatar at a time, and you can change your avatar whenever you like.

 

Changing Your Avatar

You can change your avatars look and style...even gender! Currently, you have only one avatar, and their collection of gender-specific clothes.

 

To change your avatar, click on "My Stuff" at the bottom and select the "Dress"  button.

 

From there you'll see a variety of clothing options. If you click on "Avatars"  you can change your base avatar style and gender.

 

 

 

 

Moving Your Avatar

There are several ways to move your avatar around Vivaty Scenes:

 

 

General Movement

1. Click and drag to move around.

2. The directional keys also allow you to move your avatar.

 

Positioning your viewpoint (camera position)

1. Right click and drag to rotate your camera position.

2. Use the mouse wheel to pan in and out. If you hold down shift and use the mouse wheel, you can position your camera at different vertical heights.

 

 

Viewing Objects

Double click to zoom! We are very excited about a new feature that lets you zoom in on a media object (photo, photo gallery, video). To use it, double-click on a media object. The camera zooms in close but your avatar stays put.

 

Avatar Profiles

If you're wanting to find out more about a user before actually speaking with them, you can right click them and click "About me" to view a profile about the person. You can find out information about the user like their name, age, gender and location. The profile also shows you scenes the user has recently visited, scenes they own , the amount of VP they have earned during their time in Vivaty and their status.

 

Editing your own profile

You can edit your profile by right clicking yourself, selecting 'edit' and clicking "About me". This will bring up a box allowing you to change your status and input five links that you want to share with friends.

  

By clicking "My account" in the top right you can choose what you do and don't want to share in your profile.

 

 

Sitting/Laying Down

Not only can you sit on the seating in Vivaty, you can sit on the Fireplaces and even lay on the towels. Just right click the item and click sit/lay  

 

Getting Un-Stuck

In some rare situations, you may find your avatar stuck in some way. Try any of the following to get clear of your obstacles:

- Click the "escape" key to move your avatar to a new position.

- Right click with your mouse to reveal the views menu.

- Click the "n" key to automatically change to the "next" viewpoint.

- Click the My Vivaty menu and then Views to change your view.

- Once you change your view, it’s easier to see a new way to move away from the object.

- If all else fails, re-enter your scene.

 

 

 

Gesturing

If you are happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it! Don’t miss our new Moods feature (in My Vivaty / Moods menu) to make your idle animations Happy, Sad, Angry, Flirty or Chillin’.

 

When you type certain keys, you'll notice your avatar matches your text. E.g., type a smiley  :)   or type /wave and watch your avatar react.

 

Use the following hot-keys to make your avatar more expressive:

Hot Key	Action
1	Wave
2	Clap
3	Laugh
4	Cry
5	Embarrassed
6	Angry
7	Jump
8	Flirt
9	Thumbs Up!