OLD-CasperLet/Detailed Setup

Prerequisites

This manual assumes the following:

• That you already have land you want to rent out
• That you have purchased the paid version of CasperLet

Getting Started: Overview

• Rez a rental unit
• If it's a box, click it. If it's a flat meter, click the (C)asperLet logo
• Select Config from the popup menu.
• Go to the website. Create an account, if necessary. Log in.
• Set the various configuration options such as rate, prim/impact limits, etc. on the bulk page
• Click "save" after each change
• If necessary, with each rental unit rezzed, change its individual options as well. Click save after each change.
• If you want to count prims, then rez one prim counter for each land owner.

What's In The Crate?

For details on what comes in the shipping crate, see the Introduction page.

Creating An Account

See how to create an account on CasperDNS as well as reset your password.

Configuring Your Units

Configuring your "slave" rental unit

The "slave" units can be linked to the actual CasperLet rental units, and will copy whatever the main units do. This is really useful if you want a "central" rental area on the sim/region, as well as payment boxes on each of your rental locations.

1. Rez a "slave" unit near the actual rental unit you want it linked to.
2. Click "yes" when prompted.
3. It's now assigned to that rental unit, and will copy that unit's settings and updates. It can be touched/clicked and paid, just like the main unit.

Configuring States

Configuring the states of your rental BOX:

1. Make sure the unit is available (not rented).
2. Resize the prim and move it to where it should appear when available, and set the transparency as desired.
3. Touch/click the unit, select "States" from the popup menu, then "Set Available"
4. Resize the prim, move it, and set transparency as desired in the "Rented" state.
5. Touch/click the unit, select "States" from the popup menu, then "Set Rented"
6. Pay the unit to start a rental. This will store the settings.

Configuring the states of your rental METER:

1. Make sure the unit is available (not rented).
2. Move the prim where it should appear when available
3. Touch/click the unit, select "States" from the popup menu, then "Set Available"
4. Move the prim where you want it to appear when it is rented.
5. Touch/click the unit, select "States" from the popup menu, then "Set Rented"
6. Pay the unit to start a rental. This will store the settings.

• You cannot automatically change the transparency or size on a flat meter - they're designed to be left where people can easily see them.
• If the renter gets evicted, the unit should automatically pick up and use the "available" state setting.

Configuring Textures

Customising your rental unit textures is easy! Simply:

• Take a copy of the textures out of the unit
• Save them to your hard drive
• Edit them (or use them as templates) to your liking
• Upload the new versions to SL
• Replace the textures in the rental units. That's it!

Remember that each respective texture needs to use the appropriate name:

• "TEX-available"
• "TEX-overdue"
• "TEX-rented"
• "TEX-overlimit"
• "TEX-locked"
• "TEX-reserved".

Textures must also be full perm (to YOU, the system owner) in order for the unit to display them, and must retain either the "box@" or "m@" at the beginning of the description field on the unit. If you remove that, the textures will not change.

Configuring Door & Sign

This applies to the sample door and sign that is included within the CasperLet shipping crate.

BOTH THE SIGN AND DOOR (AND THEIR SCRIPTS) ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS", WITHOUT WARRENTY OR SUPPORT. You may informally ask in the CasperTech support group if you get stuck, of course. Chances are there's a scripter who might be willing to help. Naturally, you're welcome to use them without restriction.

To use them as-is:

1. Rez a door or sign near a CasperLet unit
2. Touch/click it
3. Click the CasperLet unit you want to link the door and/or sign to
4. Click "Yes" on the popup menu
5. Now click the CasperLet unit once more to send the most recent data
6. The door and/or sign should now function as any door and/or sign would, save that it will automatically restrict itself to the current CasperLet tenant when rented.

The door will still work from within a linkset.

Casper Warden requests that if you use these scripts in a more advanced product and set it up for sale that you let him know, and he'll help promote it.

Notecard Delivery

Version 1.19 and prior

• Place two notecards into the contents of EACH rental unit; the names must end with "-Info" and "-Rented".
• The "-Info" notecard is given when a user clicks Info in the menu.
• The "-Rented" notecard is given when a user rents. The user can also click the unit at any time and select "Notecard" from the popup menu to get the "-Rented" notecard again.

It is recommended that you include some basic information about your rental, such as:

1. How much per week
2. How many prims
3. Any rules you have on rentals, what tenants can and cannot rez out, etc.
4. Anything else you want to add

Version 1.20 and forward

• Place the "-Info" and "-Rented" notecards in your dropbox.
• If you want the manager to be able to change the notecard contents, they need:

1. Their own DropBox
2. A copy of your "-Info" and "-Rented" notecards that they can put in their DropBox

They will be unable to modify notecards within YOUR dropbox, even WITH modify permissions granted - this is why you have to give them a copy. This is an SL limitation, not something CasperLet can work around.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

See the complete FAQ page.

Additional Options

You can also....

...Read about the CasperLet API

...Get the details about setting up METAbolt bots