Before you wear the avatar...

To fit inside the tiny Infoplasma Avatar, your human avatar will be made much shorter and will be curled into a ball, and most of the items you are wearing will have to be removed. You'll want to be sure you can locate all of the following items in your inventory so you can restore your appearance when you're done using the Infoplasma avatar:

hair
shape
shirt
pants
shoes
attachments (prim hair, shoes, weapons, etc.)

The easiest way to locate everything you're wearing is to type the text "(worn", without the quotes, into the text field at the top of your inventory list. Type an open parenthesis but not a closing parenthesis. This filters your inventory list so that only items you are wearing are shown. Make note of their locations. To return to your full inventory list, delete what you typed in the text field.

The most important items you must locate are your shape and hair, because your human avatar will be transformed into a very unattractive form to fit inside the Infoplasma avatar. You'll want to be able to restore your shape and hair when you remove the avatar. Most of the other items you are wearing you are probably accustomed to replacing, but you may have forgotten where your shape and hair are hiding in your inventory. Find them before wearing the Infoplasma Avatar.

Wearing the avatar

To wear the avatar, locate the folder called "Infoplasma Avatar" in your inventory and either drag the whole folder to your avatar or right-click it and select "Replace Outfit" from the pop-up menu. This will replace almost all items you are wearing, including any HUDs you might be using. It will not replace your skin or your eyes. If you don't want to remove the HUDs you are wearing, select the wearable items in the Infoplasma Avatar folder and wear them individually. Right-click them and select "Wear" from the pop-up menu. Or you could put a copy of your other HUDs in the Infoplasma folder and wear them with the avatar.

Why does this avatar replace your shirt, pants, shoes and hair? The ones you are wearing may be too large to fit in the tiny Infoplasma Avatar. The ones in the folder are made to be small and tight to the body. You don't have to wear them if the ones you are already wearing don't show when you attach the avatar, but they are provided to make wearing the avatar easy.

When you first wear the avatar you will be asked for your language preference. The interactive menu is provided in three languages: English, Japanese and German. If the Japanese text does not display correctly you either do not have a Japanese font installed or you have not enabled Asian language support in your operating system.

Flight Assist

Vengeance Flight Assist is included for free with the Infoplasma Avatar and can be found in the same folder as the avatar. It attaches to the lower right corner of your Heads Up Display, but you normally won't see it. When you are flying it will show your speed, but at all other times it is invisible.

If you have another flight assist you prefer to use, you do not need to wear the Vengeance Flight Assist.

See the included flight assist instruction notecard or the flight assist web page for more information.

Menu

The interactive menu lets you change the color of the avatar's plasma layer, and it provides easy access to the website documentation and other functions. You invoke it either by touching the silver ring around the "eye" on the front of the avatar or by typing '/62 menu', without quotes, into text chat. If you have more than one Infoplasma Avatar in one location, use touch rather than chat to get the menu. Otherwise both avatars will pop up a menu.

Only the avatar owner has access to the menu.

Troubleshooting FAQ

1. My avatar is dark and is not glowing

Your graphics preferences are probably set too low. If your graphics setting is at the lowest, "Basic Shaders" has probably been disabled. You must enable that feature either by increasing your graphics setting or by selecting "Basic Shaders" in the custom settings.

2. What are the asterisks (or big dots) in my menu?

These are Japanese characters that are not showing properly because either you do not have a Japanese font installed or you haven't enabled Asian language support in your operating system. You don't need to read the text to use those features, however. The Japanese text in the Equator menu is the Japanese word for status. Select it to display Japanese text on the equator of your avatar. The Japanese text in the Language menu selects Japanese as your preferred language.

3. I selected a language I can't read, so I can't read the menu to change it back!

When you see the main menu, the first button is the Language button. Press it.

4. When I travel to a particular region the menu doesn't work
5. When I travel to a particular region all the flowing images on my avatar eventually disappear

The Infoplasma Avatar is a scripted device. Most features are controlled by computer programs (called scripts in Second Life). Some locations in Second Life don't allow you to run scripts. When you visit those places most (but not all) script functions will stop working, including your menu and the flowing images on your avatar. Your colored plasma should continue to animate and your flight assist will continue to function because those are not affected by no-script restrictions.

6. My avatar (or my boots, or hair, or something else) sticks out of the Infoplasma avatar when I wear it

You must remove all attachments when you wear the avatar. Additionally, Linden hair (as opposed to prim hair you buy in stores), shoes, pants and shirts might show if they are not close-fitting. And, of course, you must be wearing the included small shape.

The easiest way to solve this problem is to wear all the items that came in the avatar folder and nothing else. Please see the instructions for wearing the avatar.

If everything is worn properly and you still have this problem, you may have the avatar attached to the wrong part of your body. Find the avatar in your inventory and check where it is attached. If it says it's worn someplace other than the pelvis, detach it, then right-click it, select "Attach" from the pop-up menu, and select the pelvis.