Open chat

Hi everyone,

If you own a parcel of land. Is it possible to restict open chat to the parcel of land only?
So not to disturb the neighbours.

Thank you in advance for any reply

Hello
No. That's why there is IM. You can even set up a Conference IM amongst those you wish to talk to

not possible

ok thank you for your replies.
Shame about that

Thank you

Anyone within 20m will be able to read your chat, whether on your plot or not. The range for shouting is 100m.

I make that 28m

I've never actually measured it in-world, but I always thought it was 20m. I just checked the knowledge base, and they give a figure of 20m, too.

last time i checked with a friend

whisper: 9 meters
chat: 19 meters
shout: 97meters

distance check with prims and scanner to know the distance 100% for sure

Ah, but maybe the distance of 20m & 100m is in the x,y,z system, rather than simply the x,y plane. Was one of you taller than the other?

Which is raises a point: at what point on the avatar is the chat measured from!?

that is rocket science, but as i`m bored...

the distance was measured in between 2 avi`s so you could say that the 19 meters between is excluding ~0.5m of the avatar itself so that makes it 20 meters from the point of hearing/not hearing it anymore, the avi hight might be of some influence to it`s absolute center but we tested it on a flat area

Pythagoras tells me that one avatar would have to be 6.24 meters taller than the other for 20 meters on the diagonal between their heads to equal 19 meters on the horizontal. I've seen some tall avatars, but never one that tall.

Well given the accuracy to which the numbers are given, it's not safe to assume there is a 1m difference. But yes, the avatar height comment was meant tongue in cheek I suspected they may have been at different heights of land, but as Alicia subsequently confirmed, they were on flat land. It would be interesting to know where chat is 'created' on the avatar, as I suspect the disagreement is a combination of rounding and the measurements being taken from points other than where the chat is 'created'.

Avatars are usually centred on the pelvis, for distance or location purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised it chat originated there.

-Atashi

so what your saying is that our pelvises speak for themselves.

/me avoids obvious Xcite joke

o.0

Whisper? What whisper?

Did I miss a memo on a Feature?

~Jessy

You can script an object to whisper, but AFAIK there's no way for an avatar to whisper any more.

I'm too new to have any first-hand experience, but one of my many dear, close FIC friends (*snort*) tells me there used to be a "whisper" button over by the "shout" button, which LL in their wisdom later removed. Sigh.

The functionality is still there internally, maybe the open source community could add the whisper button back in.

-Atashi

So LL didn't want us whispering? O.o

Paranoid much? LOL

Mine has, and it has gotten me in a lot of trouble. O.O

You know, despite the critical tone of my previous post ("in their wisdom...", I can't really think of a good reason to have that back in the UI. Hard to imagine a situation where the difference between a 20 meter range and a 10 meter range does anything useful. Maybe if you knocked the whisper range down to, say, 5 meters it might open up build possibilities for intimate (in the proximity sense) conversation areas spaced rather more closely together, and then toss in a sticky control to "always whisper"... but then you risk breaking scripted content that uses whisper and assumes a 10 meter range.

I dunno, still more trouble than it's worth IMHO. Best it just fade away.

just for the record all those chat distances are RADIUS

if chat were just a 2d only 1 direction thing it would be going 20m infront of you and 20m behind you too

so since your av is the centerpoint your normal chat can be picked up in a 40m sphere around you no problem

lolz geometree

You mean 100m along the hypotenuse as opposed to the horizontal? That would make sense.

Actually, what you describe as "a 1 direction thing ...infront of you and...behind you too" would only be 1d.

The next bit you said was right though. Radius, by the way, is also 2D and refers to a circle in either the horizontal, or vertical plane (or any diagonal in between), but never both at the same time.