Meet my adorable new pet Monkeys from the new Zooby Trainapets line! The Zooby Monkey is a fresh and new idea, as they are the first trainable pets that I’ve come across in SL. These Monkeys do not breed, but instead, their reason for being is to learn new tricks and interact with you and your friends.
I’ve named mine after delicious fruits, cos they are Juicy Monkeys, after all 🙂
The Zooby Monkey comes fully scripted with hold, roam, follow, meetmonk (I love this one!), home, pet, leash, poses, extras, tricks, my name, stats, sounds, attack, defend, help, and phantom. The menu is interactive and controls every aspect of your Monkey’s interactivity and customization. As with other Zooby products, I’m blown away by the flawless scripting and amazing textures.
Poses included – Sit, Stand, Relax, and Lay
Holding poses include – Hold (on arm) and Hold (on shoulder)
Here’s a preview of the “MeetMonk” animation menu. When your pet Monkey is near another Monkey, you can select this menu and choose from a wide selection of interactive “things to do” and your Monkey will act out those things. I just adore the kiss (awww!) and piggyback interaction (shown above).
Mmmmmm Monkey food! There are four types of Monkey food – Deluxe, Premium, Standard, and Generic. As the name implies, when you feed your Monkey a Deluxe food bowl, it will learn tricks faster (in one day); when you feed your monkey a generic food bowl, it will take seven days to learn a new trick. The food bowl can only be used by one Monkey, so when it is all used up by that Monkey (if you have more than one), you can delete the food bowl and purchase and rez a new one.
In addition to food, your Monkey also has a Happiness Level that must be maintained if you want to increase the chances of receiving a mystery trick. I loved playing with these accessories myself, cos there are poses built-in for me to use, such as bathing my Monkey in the tub and also hair brushing 🙂
A fully leveled Monkey is the ultimate reward for taking such good care of your Zooby Monkey.
Performing tricks – Eating Banana, Blowing Bubbles, Hulahoop, Playing the Bongos
For every trick that your Monkey has learned, it will go up 1 level. There is a maximum of 40 levels, and the minimum it takes is 40 days to learn all of those tricks. Feed your Monkey Deluxe food bowls if you want it to learn faster!
I can’t wait to see all the tricks my Big Kahuna (that’s the bad-ass looking one above, with the Red Mohawk) can do! Big Kahuna is not named after fruits cos he’s the baddest one of all my Monkeys, and most intelligent.
If you don’t want to feed your Monkey or worry about Happiness Level, the Zooby Monkey is still a great pet out of the box. Your Monkey will never die, but it won’t learn any tricks. For someone who is serious about training the pet Monkey, the reward is a fully leveled Monkey that potentially has a high resale value. These Monkeys have no copy/transfer perms, so you can transfer to someone else with all the levels included. Should you lose the Monkey (SL bug, accidental deletion, etc), Zooby creators have a record of your Monkey in their system and will replace it WITH all the tricks it has learned. Amazing? This feature ensures that you don’t lose money and valuable time if there’s a hiccup.
There’s so much more included with the Monkeys that I may have forgotten to include. You’ll just have to get one (or a few!) and discover all the awesomeness for yourself.
Visit Zooby, the best pets in all of SL!
Never heard of it, but omg, LOVING!!!
and speaking of loving, that hair needs me – wheres it from?
hi Banana! it’s from Lelutka, I should blog it soon.. got distracted by shiny new HUD!
I have avimote , had it for a while but the best pose maker by far is Anypose .it does what avimote does but 1000 times better .Anypose allows you to make poses in world and save them as a BVH file; or you can save the pose inside the stand or the special pose player.you can even swap poses to other Anypose stands or users, without leaving SL and uploads the same way.
with Anypose you can rez 9 posestands .Meaning you can pose 9 people all indivdually or all at once and move the stands anywhere you want,great for making group shots or sporting shots .look it up ANYPOSE.if you like Avimote you will love ANYPOSE.
Avimote rules! I have a rounder avi than most and avimote has saved me so many times with poses that don’t work with my shape. If you blog regularly I would say 3 plus times a week, it is so worth the investment.
Hi, yeah i’ve had this for about 10 months now just after it came out. just waiting for the updates now 😛
So many awesome poses, capturing at different angles to hide those little psychic surgeries! $2,450L! I’m just that narci to still get it.
wow impressive stuff! I think I will buy this – it’ll make my pose hoarding worse but.. OH WELL! Look out posemakers, I’m comin’ for yer stuff! 😀
Avimote is one of those shiny little tools I had to have, and for a while I played around with its capabilities quite a lot … now I have all but forgotten that I could use it, which may be because I don’t take pictures of moi that often, for lack of a blog or anything*. But it is a great tool for someone who routinely takes photos of their avatar, I’d say, and so for you the investment should indeed be worth it – and yess, Hair! *visits Lelutka*
*(plus, thanks to a crappy computer, I’m often unable to differentiate between something vanishing for reasons of an abysmal sculpty-LOD or a pose not fitting me perfectly … meh -.-)
The description sounds extremely nice so far, still have to watch the video and read through all the comments and discussion. So no matter what permissions and priorities apply to the animation you are running, the HUD will be able to move your limbs? Nice, very nice.
The not yet released standard version of the tool sounds even better and so does the promise that existing customers will get upgrade offers.
Very helpful find!
And Gogo, would you mind sharing your computer specs? I only found a blog post from a while ago saying that you got a new machine, but nothing more. Sorry if I missed it in search… but the detail on the pic in this post is simply amazing and I’d love to know which graphic card comes up with such a great render. Love the way the hair looks… as if you had a real moulded marble sculpture right before you. Awesome effect. 🙂
omgah i neeeeed this!!
I can’t believe this has been out for awhile and I didn’t know about it. Definately a must have.
Thanks Gogo for sharing this.
Hi there!
I watched now the video: I really like that you can work with this tool ingame BUT it is useless cause you cannot save your work. And that point is the argument for ‘not buying’ it.
(Maybe I understood it wrong, but comments on xstreet writing the same).
My reply is pretty late, but I do have to agree with Becster. I have been using AnyPose for about a year now, and it is the easiest, fastest, most complex yet basic pose maker/adjuster. I use it to make all of my poses, and to make adjustments to purchased poses. The latest HUD not only adjusts your premade poses, it can also let you change between multiple posestands (with other people on them) AND live action, meaning you can pose yourself OR others, without even being near a posestand. It’s VERY worth it, and free updates for life!!!