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Trying to make a main Telehub for my Island

Rorrim Wrigglesworth
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Join date: 6 Apr 2008
Posts: 68
10-21-2008 05:12
I am looking for advice/help, if at all possible as I'm not sure how to go about it, hence my asking for help here on this forum.
I have tried, with no luck at present, to set a main Telehub point onto my land. When I list my land in the SL map search it shows the main TP into the sim as 128.128.0, this is basically in the middle of the Island. If you look you should see it (RoBeck Isle)
I have made a Landing Point at a separate location elsewhere on my Island (basically on a corner point of a beach) and yet when I TP into the sim it puts me in the centre of the Island and not where I want to set the Landing Point.
The current point it puts me will be in a house/store, if I place it there, 128.120.0.
So any help would be appreciated. I have tried, but had no luck with the info on the SLwiki page as it doesn't seem to work, listed under Telehub, so either this no longer works or I am just not that smart at this. I am not dumb, it's just that I can't seem to get it to work. I want to set this for people to use if/when they arrive on the Island, as there will be information regarding the Island there, Island rules and things to do etc.
So any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance if you know how to solve this or even have any constructive help that I could use on this. :)
Rorrim.
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Atom Burma
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Join date: 30 May 2006
Posts: 685
10-21-2008 05:17
Try testing this with a friend, land owners are not under the umbrella of telehubs, you have the freedom to teleport into your land anywhere. But it is pretty simple, just create a landing point, and restrict to that point. You don't even need to use a telehub anymore really.
Kitty Barnett
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Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
10-21-2008 05:31
Telehubs and landing points are different things though: you either use one or the other, but you can't use both at the same time.

If you want to use a telehub you need to clear any landing point on every parcel and disable "Allow Direct Teleport" from the estate tools. You'll also need to manage the telehub from the estate tools and add one or more spawn points.

If the sim is one big sim sized parcel though you can just set a landing point (but first get rid of any existing telehub you might have now) in About Land (and make sure the drop-down says "Landing Point" and not "Everywhere" or "Blocked).

If the sim consists of multiple parcels you can still "fake" a telehub by setting teleport routing to "Blocked" on every parcel except for one small landing parcel. Anyone tp'ing (even from offered tp's) to the sim will be redirected to the landing parcel.

In the end it really depends on what exactly you want to accomplish?

Do you want everyone tp'ing to anywhere on the sim (from the map, landmarks, offered teleports, etc) to arrive at one specific point? If so then you need either a telehub, or use a parcel solution depending on if you have one parcel on the sim or more (see above).

If all you're wanting to accomplish is that people don't end up at 128, 128 when they tp from the map, then set a landing point on whatever parcel is at the center of the sim.

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I want to set this for people to use if/when they arrive on the Island, as there will be information regarding the Island there, Island rules and things to do etc.
Just a little personal comment, you can ignore it if you like :p.

I personally hate telehubs, or blocked teleport routing. It means that if I get tp'ed over, I will end up nowhere near the friend who tp'ed me, or that if I tp someone else over I'll have to go pick them up from the main landing point.

In my personal opinion, the best thing to do would be to just stick to a landing point so that anyone who tp's over ends up at your "welcome station", but anyone who gets tp'ed over by someone else will end up with their friend.
Rorrim Wrigglesworth
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Join date: 6 Apr 2008
Posts: 68
Telehub for my Island
10-22-2008 08:12
Thanks for your input... all of you. I now have it sorted out. I was given help by someone who saw this after they contacted me. I now have the TP point done.

Basically Kitty what you said is what I wanted to do anyway.
Anyone who ports in from the map, or from another place, will drop in at the 'Welcome Center' and can get directions and info from there as well as using the 'local' TP system, and anyone who get's a TP from a friend will go directly to them.
The SLWiki guide I used is a few years old, to say the least, and it was the long way round of doing it. I was shown the easy way and it's been tested and it works.. :)

My Sim will be opening soon... so now all need to do is to advertise the houses/store rentals (when I get the Prim/Linden price sorted out.... lol )

Thanks again for the help on this forum.
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