Vavoom!

Vavoom! News July 2010

Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Dear Everyone,

It’s all about houses and beds this month!

1. Magic Mushroom Dog House

Here’s something a little different to my usual style. The Vavoom! Magic Mushroom dog house is built with a mixture of sculpted and regular prims and features hand-painted textures exclusively made for this house. It’s shown with a small breed in the photo, but it will extend right up to Hyena and Irish Wolfhound size if you’d like it to.

Copy/Mod. No Transfer. 10 Prims.

If you wish to purchase one of these for someone else, there are Gift Vendors at all my stores.

.

.

2. Round Wicker Multi-Dog Beds

Designed to accommodate several dogs at once, the Round Wicker Multi-Dog Beds come in a choice of dark or light wicker baskets have a scripted controller that allows you to select one of 9 different quilt colours to fit in with your décor.

These beds include all the usual Vavoom! Dog Bed features: when dogs go to sleep in the bed, they are set to passive so they stay there. When you use the Wake Up feature to get them up again, they are set back to active. Don’t forget, if you have a number of dogs that regularly share the bed, there is a feature to save the positions where they sleep so that you can send them all to bed at once.

The colour menu is accessed by touching the bed and choosing Options from the Menu and then Colours.

Copy/Mod. No Transfer. 1 Prim.

If you wish to purchase one of these for someone else, there are Gift Vendors at all my stores.

.

.

3. Red Roofed Doghouse

Using the techniques developed for last month’s Log Cabin Doghouse release, this is another build with custom made sculpted prims, baked textures and three built in themes:

1. Dark Wood
2. Medium Wood
3. Light Wood

You can access the themes by touching the quilt and choosing Options from the Menu and then Colours.

The Red Roofed Doghouses are designed to be shared by a number of dogs. You click on the point on the quilt where you want the dog to lie down. When dogs go to sleep in the house, they are set to passive so they stay there. When you use the Wake Up feature to get them up again, they are set back to active. Don’t forget, if you have a number of dogs that regularly share the house, there is a feature to save the positions where they sleep so that you can send them all to the house at once.

Copy/Mod. No Transfer. 8 Prims.

If you wish to purchase one of these for someone else, there are Gift Vendors at all my stores.

.

.

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

SLURL: Vavoom! Update Stations

Did I say that it’s free?

.

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

If you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News June 2010

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Dear Everyone,

I’ve only actually got two things to show you this month, but I think you’ll agree that they’re rather special.

1. Log Cabin Dog Houses

Making a log cabin dog house had been on my to-do list for ages. I finally got around to it earlier this week. I started off with a low prim house and found some log textures, but it just didn’t look right. So I decided to build it myself from scratch. The sculpted prims were made by me and the textures were baked for those prims. So what you see here is all exclusively by Vavoom!

The Log Cabin Dog House has three built in themes:

1. Dark wood
2. Medium wood
3. Light wood

You can access the themes by touching the quilt and choosing Options from the Menu and then Colours.

The Log Cabin houses are designed to be shared by a number of dogs. You click on the point on the quilt where you want the dog to lie down. When dogs go to sleep in the house, they are set to passive so they stay there. When you use the Wake Up feature to get them up again, they are set back to active. Don’t forget, if you have a number of dogs that regularly share the house, there is a feature to save the positions where they sleep so that you can send them all to bed at once.

Each house is made from eight Prims and is Copy and Mod. (No Transfer)

.

.

2. Grad Cap Magic Toy

You can wear this AND your dog can play with it. If you wear it, it attaches to your chin. If you then right click and drop it (or just rez it from your inv), you can touch it and have the dog fetch it for you. But, if your hair gets all sticky because the dog had your hat in his mouth, then it’s nothing to do with me. As with the new houses, the sculpties and textures are exclusively Vavoom!

The Grad caps are made from two prims and are Copy and Mod. (No Transfer)

BTW, congratulations to Roe!

.

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

SLURL: Vavoom! Update Stations

Did I say that it’s free?

.

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

I am planning to introduce a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices yourself, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News May 2010

Saturday, May 8th, 2010 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Dear Everyone,

What’s new for May 2010? Oooooh where should I start…

1. A new *Magic* Bed
2. A new Active Toy
3. Two new *Magic* Toys
4. Half Price Product-Retirement Sale
5. Updates to Beds and Dog Houses

.

1. The new dog bed is “Jack’s Bed”.

Designed with the Jack Russell Terrier in mind, Jack’s Bed is a wicker basket with a comfy pillow inside. It’s all done with one sculpted prim and it has a choice of six baked textures all controlled from the Colours section of the *Magic Bed* script.

Although I designed it whilst thinking about the new Jack Russell Terrier, it will work with any of the dogs. You can shrink it down for your Chihuahua or stretch it out for your Irish Wolfhound.

.

.

2. The new *Active* Toy is called CoCo’s Cupcake.

A few weeks ago a good friend of both Vavoom! and the Virtual Kennel Club, Roe Woodford, was celebrating the birthday of her dog Coco. Roe called Sandry Logan looking for a cake for Coco. Sandry called me and here’s the result! The pack contains both Pink and Blue Cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Coco!

.

.

3. New *Magic* Toys

Buddy Toy – Single prim. Baked texture. Choice of two colours.

USB Drive – A geeky dog toy. Or a toy for geeky dogs?

One prim. Baked Texture. Choiced of three colours: Red, Blue, Pink

.

.

4. Product Retirement Sale.

I’m going to retire some of the older Vavoom! products/colour options to make room for new things. I’ve put everything that is being dicontinued in a skybox over my Main Store and set it to half the regular price. It will be there until the next edition of the Vavoom! News Letter comes out. After that, it’ll be gone.

SLURL : Vavoom! Product Retirement Sale

.

.

5. Updates to beds and houses.

This is a bug fix release, but it applies to only a tiny fraction of owners. The bug only occurs if you have a dog named Red or Blue (or one of the other colour names that I used In the Wicker Beds series). It is present in most beds and houses that were sold or updated since March 2010, but it is not present in the new Sam’s Dog House that came out in March. I think this only affects a tiny minority of dog owners because there are only a few of you with dogs that are named after colours. If you *are* affected, please come and collect an update from the Update Stations.

SLURL: Vavoom! Update Stations

.

.

Lost Products

=========

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

SLURL: Vavoom! Update Stations

Did I say that it’s free?

.

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

I am planning to introduce a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices yourself, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News February 2010

Friday, February 5th, 2010 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News February 2010

Dear Everyone,

February’s Vavoom! News brings you some fabulous new Multi-Dog *Magic Beds*, a Limited Edition Valentine Bear, a new “Loyalty Vendor” Freebie plus updates to the Magic Beds, Chaises, Cuddle your Dog Rugs, Magic Dog Houses and the Poser for Dogs!

.

1. The New Magic Beds offer a major improvement in looks over the previous versions.
I’ve been learning some news skills and have employed them to make single prim sculpty beds with baked textures to give the most realistic look that I’ve achieved yet. There are three different styles:

• Low Wicker Bed
• Raised Wicker Bed
• Heart-Shaped Wicker Bed

The Heart-Shaped version has three different colour choices for the pillow inside the bed: Red, Blue and Pink.

The other two versions have six colours: Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, and Pink.

All three versions have all the latest Multi-Dog Magic Bed scripts with saved sleeping positions and commands to send all the dogs to bed together or wake them all up at once.

.

.

.

2. The Valentine Bear went on display on the 1^st February. He works just like the other bears, you carry him in the crook of your right arm (with an animation by Solcar Amat) and you touch him to rez a Vavoom! Dog Toy. The Valentine Bear’s Toy is a Red Heart.

The Valentine Bear will be in the stores until 1^st March.

.

3. As I am sure you will recall, the Vavoom! “Loyalty Vendor” gives you its contents Free when you touch it, if you are an existing Vavoom! Customer. If you’re not already a customer then you can pay the vendor its regular price or you could purchase something else and then go back to get the Loyalty Vendor’s item for free.

This month’s item is a Hot Pink Heart Shaped Toy. Instead of being a puffy-heart style like the Valentine Bear’s toy, this one is a made from a tube, so there’s a hole through the middle like a ring.

It will be in the Loyalty Vendor until the end of February.

.

4. Updates to Magic Beds, Chaises, Cuddle your Dog Rugs, Magic Dog Houses and the Poser for Dogs

Aas I’m sure you know, Enrico released the White German Shepherd Dog just a couple of days ago. If you have one of these dogs, these updates will make sure that your White GSD is positioned beautifully on his bed, chaise, rug, house or poser.

These updates apply to all Vavoom Beds, Dog Houses, Chaises, Rugs and the Poser that were sold before 5 February 2010.

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

Did I say that it’s free?

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

I have a longer term plan to introduce a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices yourself, but I’m still a long way from having time to work on it. So in the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

.

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News January 2010

Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News January 2010

Dear Everyone,

What’s in the Vavoom! News this month? Well…. there are a couple of product updates, two new Weathervanes and New Toys!

.

1. Updates are available for the Cuddle Rugs and for the HUD:

• Rugs are updated to position Widget (The VKC Mutt) and the Polar Bears accurately. Yes, that’s right, the cuddle rugs work with the Polar Bear too.
  (You’ll find that the Beds and Houses work too, the reason that I’m making a mention of the Rugs is because I specifically modified them to work with the bears.)

  .
  

.

.

• The HUD also gets an update this time out. It’s nothing major and you don’t *need* to rush off to get this one. The update is internal and means that it will no longer matter if you have empty lines in the dog_names Notecard. (It prevents the “No Dogs” error that occurs if you have extra white space in the Notecard.)

.

2. New Toys:

• Widget Beer – this is a toy that I make for each breed. When your dog fetches this toy for you, he throws it to you, you catch it and drink it! If you haven’t seen this before, it’s a lot of fun.
  .



.

• Portie Beer – the observant among you will have noticed that I never made a beer can toy for the Portuguese Water Dog back when the breed was released. So this one fills the gap in the range.
  .
  

.

3. Weathervanes:

• Weatherwanes are available for both Widget and the Polar Bear. If you have not seen these before, they’re in a holo-vendor on the deck at my Main Store.here is a Weathervane for each VKC breed and as you might expect change direction as the SL wind changes.

.

4. The Winter Bear goes on sale today for a very limited period:

• As I explained in a previous Newsletter, he was my item in the Snowflake Hunt and we were requested to make our hunt items exclusive to the hunt until it finished. Well, the hunt finishes today, I’ll put him on sale for the next four weeks in case anyone still wants one. After that I’ll retire him completely because it has always been my intention for the bears series to be Limited Editions.

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

Did I say that it’s free?

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

I am planning to introduce a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices yourself, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

.

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News December 2009

Friday, December 18th, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News December 2009

Dear Everyone,

I have several things to announce again this month:

1. New Bear

2. Christmas Accessories

3. A plug for my old friends

4. A surprise from the VKC

5. New Accessories

.

1. This week sees the launch of the Limited Edition Santa Bear. He is designed to be carried (worn) by you and when you touch him, he rezzes a miniature replica of himself which is a Vavoom! Active Toy. There’s also a copy of the bear’s Santa Hat in the package for you to wear if you so desire.

For those of you whose dogs haven’t yet experienced the fun of a Vavoom! Active Toy, there’s rarely been a better time. This little guy only costs L$100 which is half the usual price of the toys in the Active Toy Range. And for those of you that are worried about what you heard about them being “bad for the dogs,” read the Endorsement by Enrico on my web site. Get it from the horse’s mouth, or rather from the Dog Creator’s. He loves them!

Santa Bear will be in the store until the end of December.

.

2. I’ve put a selection of Christmas toys and accessories out at the store and put updated versions in the Update Stations. If you have Vavoom! Christmas things from previous years, you can get them updated to the latest version at no cost, as you would expect. The Candy Cane and Christmas Stocking toys have new sculpties for this year as well as updated scripts.

.

.

3. My old and dear friends Sandry Logan and Blu Sparkle at LogSpark International have recently teamed up with another old mate of mine, Solcar Amat, to make an astonishingly cute new product for the VKC Dogs. The Dog Bath!

There are three different sizes to suit the different breeds and there are custom made animations by Amat for each one. The baths are scripted to help you set them up to fit your avatar and to change not only colour, but the whole THEME — colour AND texture.

I heartily recommend that you come over and check them out. Here’s a teaser:

and here’s the SLURL. You can try them out for yourself at the LogSpark Dog Bath store.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/13/94/24

.

4. Just in case you’ve missed all the announcements and the talk, there is a new arrival at the Virtual Kennel Club — the Polar Bear! Yes, you heard me correctly! Enrico made a Polar Bear. He’s a Limited Edition too! (Not Enrico. The Polar Bear!) He’ll be around until the end of December, so don’t miss out!

.

.

5. I made a couple of things with the Polar Bear in mind.

There is a new squeaky toy called Polar Cola which you can get for free as an existing Vavoom! Customer. Just click on the sign next to the Lucky Chair.

.

I have also reworked the Igloo *Magic* Dog House and renamed this version the “Polar Bear House”. It’s been sized so that it fits snugly around the bear and it’s a pretty close fit so you’ll need to use the “Wake Up” feature to get him out again. I’ve modified the commands to get him in and out, I think you’ll it. But don’t just take my word for it, bring your bear over and try it out. The Polar Bear House is priced at just L$100 until the end of December.

.

.

Finally, congratulations to Widget the winner of the VKC Mutt Contest and commiserations to the other contestants. You are all beautiful. Rico, if you’re reading, can you please make them all?

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

Did I say that it’s free?

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the news service?

I am planning to introduce a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices yourself, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

.

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News November 2009 – Three Things!

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News 22nd November 2009

.

Dear Everyone,

Three items of news this month:

1. Hunt Item
2. Updates to *Active* Toys
3. Lost Toy Remover

.

1. Hunt Item

I’m taking part in the Snowflake Gridwide Hunt and I’ve made a special Limited Edition Vavoom! Winter Bear for the occasion. He’s adorable and wearable! He lounges comfortably on your arm and when you touch him he rezzes a miniature version of himself for your dog to play with. That’s right, the miniature bear that he rezzes is a Vavoom! *Magic* Toy.

Here’s the photo from the box,  isn’t he adorable?

He is available from now until mid-January in the hunt item that is hidden in my store. (He may go on sale for a very short period in late January but this particular bear will be strictly a Limited Edition.) To get him for free, you will need to come and search for him at the Vavoom! Main Store on Turing Isle.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Solcar Amat for the carrying animation and to give a quick plug for his own Snowflake Hunt item which is concealed in his store.

Watch out for more Vavoom! Bears in the coming months.
.
.
.
2. Updates to *Active* Toys

I had a wonderful suggestion recently from a long standing Vavoom! Customer who asked if there was a way to control the range that dogs come to play with the *Active* Toys. (Thank you Yak.) So there is an update available for your *Active* toys that allows you bring up a menu to fine tune the range. Better still you can even tell the toy not to be active so that your dog only plays with it when you say. The dog will still do all the *Active* toy things, rolling around growling playfully and squeaking the toy, but when he drops it, he will leave it alone until you tell him to play with it again (or until you make it *Active* again).

To activate the menu, tell your dog to drop the toy, click on the toy and hold the mouse button down for five seconds. The menu will then open in the top right corner of your screen as usual.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

.
.
.
3.  Lost Toy Remover

(This is the one that I’ve been waiting to announce for ages!)

Does your dog have a habit of wandering off with a toy and later wandering back  without it? Over the years I’ve heard various reports of toys stuck in walls, lost in undergrowth, sunken in the mud in the bottom of the fish pond or laying on the sea bed.  This is useful little accessory that will help you tidy up Vavoom! Dog Toys that your beloved pet has lost.

Wear it on your screen or just rez it. Click it once and it sends a message to all the Vavoom! Toys in the region that you’re in and they disappear.

Free up prims at your home or clear up quickly and easily after you’ve been to a friend’s place or to the Dog Park.

Please Note
The Vavoom! Lost Toy Remover works with Vavoom! Toys purchased (or updated) on or after 22nd November 2009. It won’t work with older versions or with other creators’ toys. So come to the Main Store, update your existing toys and collect a Lost Toy Remover at the same time.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

.

.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

Did I say that it’s free?

.

Want to Unsubscribe from the new service?

I am working on a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from the notices, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No Need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

.

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/109/56/27

Vavoom! News October 2009 – Celebration!

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Dear Everyone,

I am celebrating and I want to share it with you all. This is a note that I received recently from Enrico Genosse, the Creator of the VKC Dogs and the Founder of the Virtual Kennel Club:

.

“Are you looking for something new for your VKC Dogs? Without hesitation I recommend Vavoom! Chiva Vavoom has a line of the most fun and satisfying VKC Dog Accessories you’ll find in SL.

Chiva writes very sophisticated scripts that interact automatically and intelligently with my dogs in ways I never imagined, and the quality of her products is unsurpassed. My two favorites are the Active Toys (you can watch the dogs play together) and her Multi-Dog Beds where the dogs snuggle up together.

What sets Vavoom! products apart are how natural and realistic the dogs act with them. Vavoom! products and services provide a complete and professional compliment to my Virtual Kennel Club Dogs. You won’t see anything like them!

~Enrico Genosse

Creator of the VKC Dogs”

.

Wow! Isn’t that great? What a vote of confidence.

So, how does this affect you? Well, there are a couple of things you could do:

1. Come on down to my Main Store and pick up the new toy from the “Loyalty Vendor”. As an existing Vavoom! Customer, all you have to do is touch the vendor and it will give you the toy free of charge. It’s a little thank you from me to all the customers like yourselves that have remained loyal to me through thick and thin!
   There is also a new Guess & Win game that I just installed on the deck next to the lucky chair, come and try your hand at this too.
2. Next time someone says something silly to you like: “Those Vavoom! Toys are bad for the dogs” tell them not to be so silly and show them this note.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations.

Did I say that it’s free?

Want to Unsubscribe from the in-world notification service?

I am working on a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from these notices, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Vavoom! News September 2009 – Bed Updates

Friday, September 4th, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News 1st September 2009

Dear All,

What happened to the August News then? Did you think I’d given up on you all after that little attempt to subvert my new release? No Way! I’m made of much sterner stuff than that. I had a bit of a laugh over it and a few people called up to share their stories and then I got onto the next job: Updating the Beds, Rugs, Chaises, Dog Houses and making a few mods to the Poser too.  I was intending for the August newsletter to announce the upgrades, but I got a little carried away with a new idea. Yes, I allowed a little “Feature Creep” to get into the proceedings and yes, I should know better!   But, I think you’ll think it was worth it.

Have a look at the new features that are now in the *Magic* Beds, Chaises, Dog Houses, Cuddle Rugs and the Poser for Dogs.

* Dogs are now set to passive by default when they go to bed

* New Wake Up feature.
Touch the bed and choose Wake Up, the dog jumps up and comes to greet you

* The list of names now supports up to 16 Dogs in the Main Menu.
(The menus can actually support far more than that, but 16 is a limit imposed by the LSL language.)

The Multi-Dog Beds and Multi-Dog Houses get some fabulous extra features too.

* Save Bed
This is the part that took all the extra time, but it’s my favourite new feature for a long time.
When you have got all your dogs onto your  Multi-Dog Bed or into your Multi-Dog House, choose “Save Bed” from the Options Menu.
The bed/house records all the dogs’ sleeping positions!
When you next want to send them to bed, you can choose All Dogs from the menu and the bed/house will call each dog, one by one, to go to bed.

You can even take the bed/house back into Inventory, take it to another sim, rez it there and it will still work!

* Wake One or Wake All
If there is more than one dog on the bed or in the house when you choose the Wake Up option, the bed will offer you a list of dog names or Wake All so that you can get them all up at once if you wish.

How much does this cost?
If you already own one of the updated products, it doesn’t cost you a thing!  Just come on down to the Update Stations at my Main Store on Turing Isle and click the updaters for the products that you own.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/10/27

COMING SOON
Toy Upgrades – Oh My!  I keep saying “Toy Upgrades” and don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten. Part of it is already done, but I need to talk to Enrico some more and we need to agree on a protocol before I can finish this job the way I want to. But let me assure you, when it is ready, you’ll be the first to know!

New Dog Houses, Bowls and Toys are also in the pipeline.

Lost Products
Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/10/27

Did I say that it’s free?

Want to Unsubscribe from this service?
I am working on a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from these notices, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

Accessories and Scripted Toys for VKC Dogs
“Put a Little Vavoom in Your Doggie’s Life”

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/109/56/27

http://www.chivavavoom.com/

**************************

Vavoom! Poser for Dogs!

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | Vavoom! News | 1 Comment

Say What?!

Vavoom! Poser for Dogs! It’s like a pose ball, but for dogs! You put it on the ground, or on your bed, or on your chair and your dog can pose on it. It allows you to get some VERY accurate positioning for cuddling or taking photos.

You could use it on your sofa, or on your bed, or on a bench in your garden. The possibilities are endless, any where you want to sit with your dog, you could use the Vavoom! Poser for Dogs! Have a look at the snaps below to see what I mean or read the README in on the Poser for Dogs’ Product Page.