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Property lines: how to make them more visible?

Paulo Dielli
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10-06-2008 09:00
Sometimes property lines are hard to see. Is there an edit or debug option to make them more visible? Thicker or another colour?
Raudf Fox
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10-06-2008 09:10
If there is, I haven't found it. But I'll bump because I would like to know this answer.
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Kathy Morellet
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10-06-2008 09:17
Go to the Graphics settings in preferences and turn off Basic Shaders. The property lines will be clearly visible, especially through Linden water.
Malia Writer
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10-06-2008 09:17
If it is your own property, then the "view owners" option (or something similar) makes the ground on your property a different color, which helps greatly.
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Ponsonby Low
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10-06-2008 09:19
I can't answer on the 'thicker or another color', but I do have a suggestion that some readers might not know about: if you want to see property lines that lie under water, click on the Advanced menu (I believe you can put that on your toolbar by clicking Control + Alt + Shift + D). Click "Rendering", then "Types", then "Water".

This will remove the water so that you can see the property lines clearly.
Ponsonby Low
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10-06-2008 09:21
From: Malia Writer
If it is your own property, then the "view owners" option (or something similar) makes the ground on your property a different color, which helps greatly.



That probably is the best suggestion. It shows Auction property, For Sale property, other's property that's not up for sale, and your own property, in different colors.
Lexxi Gynoid
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Join date: 6 Aug 2007
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10-06-2008 10:02
I have no idea how I did it, but there is some setting that will color in the whole box, not just the lines. I do not recall how it looked now, but I believe the parcels was easily detectable, even if all in the same shade (like yellow).

View property owners, or something like that. Though that might be the setting to see borders, but I think that one is View . . . gah, just slipped from my mind, but a different wording.

Otherwise, I do not know how to make the lines thicker, or different color, or etc. Nor do I know how to do what I mentioned above, though there was some setting that did that.

It drove me batty, and I hurriedly turned it off. After a week. Or a day. Not easy to see the ground texture with it on.

(ok, maybe what I mentioned above was already mentioned. heh, I originally read it as seeing different parcel border colors, but maybe it was meant to mean the whole property colored, like I mention above).
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10-06-2008 10:16
I find changing the sun to sunset makes them much more visible. Also you can turn off water as mentioned above. The Basic Shaders thing sounds like the best option although I haven't tried it yet.
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Wyatt Burton
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10-06-2008 10:42
You can also do some landscaping at the edge of your land or raise your land over the surrounding. This way it is obvious
Paulo Dielli
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Join date: 19 Jan 2007
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10-06-2008 16:51
From: Kathy Morellet
Go to the Graphics settings in preferences and turn off Basic Shaders. The property lines will be clearly visible, especially through Linden water.
Oh yes Kathy, that works great! Thank you. And indeed, setting to Midnight or Sunset makes it even more clear. Thank you all!
Gabriele Graves
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Join date: 23 Apr 2007
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10-06-2008 17:03
From: Ponsonby Low
I can't answer on the 'thicker or another color', but I do have a suggestion that some readers might not know about: if you want to see property lines that lie under water, click on the Advanced menu (I believe you can put that on your toolbar by clicking Control + Alt + Shift + D). Click "Rendering", then "Types", then "Water".

This will remove the water so that you can see the property lines clearly.
The hot key combination for this is [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ALT]+7
Ponsonby Low
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10-06-2008 20:37
From: Gabriele Graves
The hot key combination for this is [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ALT]+7


Ah, thanks--the book I was going by was copyright 2007 (!!!), and I'd forgotten what I'd done to get the Advanced menu, myself.