The Second Life Surfing Association (SLSA) Exotic Island Invitational Surf Challenge event last Saturday debuted a brand new scoreboard with some amazing features.
Scoreboard designer,
Abel Halderman, recently explained some of the new features:
As for now, the board is a test version. Currently it displays scoreboards and every 120 seconds, the scoreboards fade out and a sign that
Surf Rang asked me to make, "Thank You for your donations!" appears, and a gold sponsor banner appears and moves to the center of the screen, resizes to 10x10 meters, stays there for a moment and disappears.
There is also a warning option that event coordinator may use in case someone touches the wave. The screen turns red and a sign appears reading, "Please don't touch the waves".
I see lots of possible features for the screen. It could play much more complex animations - real commercials. It could give warnings "Heat 3, get ready". It could show which heat we are on. It could finally load heat scores from a notecard instead of a texture which would save a lot of work for an event coordinator or a scoreboard person.
It could also be connected to the judges' equipment which would automatically update the scoreboards. I can think of many many possible features. You name it, it's probably possible. It's easy it work with. Most of the things can be done using a blue menu.
It could be used by the SLSA as in the most recent competition. Also by Tsunami Beach. If anyone else is interested in using it, feel free to contact me.
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