Tenants pick the texture of shop walls?

How is it possible to rent out a space of land, mall, house etc and allow the tenant to pick the texture of the walls they rent?

What gadget do I need and do you supply it

I've seen it happen in a couple of places and I can't believe the owner goes around altering things manually and even if they do, there has to be a better system someone has developed.

Thank you for any help solving this mini puzzle of mine.

Hi Maran,

I've rented many shops over the years and some have been quite open to changing the shop to suit your preference. And that's exactly what they did at those times, manually changed the shop, wall textures or whatever, to your specifications. I'm not aware of any 'gadget' that does it for them and have seen them doing it while standing there.

Another way for shop renters to change walls is to use a few of their allotted prims and create walls of their own. I know of several merchants who do this on a regular basis.

~B

I've never seen it myself, but this definitely could be scripted. The script would be a bit complicated because you only want the tenant to be able to do it, and to be useful, pretty much the whole Texture tab on the object editor would have to be replicated in scripted controls (probably a HUD). So, it would be a kinda big deal, but I don't see any big gotchas, so maybe somebody already has such a product.

Make walls group objects and all members of group can amend the walls

A friend of mine has a home that has scripted walls, its pretty cool... but its ownly owner controlled. Kind of a pain when his partner can't change things herself. He said the creator was going to work on making it access list controlled.

Changing the textures on wall faces is the same process as changing the textures on window faces. It's just changing the texture on a prim face.

The Hippo rental system has an add on for window control. The control can be selective by face.
It allows for preset arrangements and as I remember, allows a user to add their own arbirary textures by UUID in chat commands.

Drop the Hippo window scripts into walls and there's your "gadget".
The nice thing is that the 'wall' control is permission-linked into the Hippo rental box.

Adding to my post above:

If you have a mall in which a single prim wall separate two rented shops, you would have "issues".
The system would have to restrict the face numbers that a given tenant would be able to control. That one would be a custom script.

Yeah, that's a huge advantage because the permissions would surely have to be set as part of the rental process somehow.That's a reasonable approach. The alternative I had in mind was pretty ugly: the wall would accept a touch from only the renter, then briefly llAllowInventoryDrop() of a texture control-dragged onto it.Except I'd imagined that a custom wall texture might need to have repeats, offsets, and possibly rotation be user-adjustable--hence a HUD to do all that. On the other hand, if it's just an unrotated, centered 1x1 logo, for example, none of that nonsense would be needed.

Script the wall to allow inventory drop, and to look for a texture file with a specific name? I've scripted changes of texture for a known collection of textures, but if you specify the needed file name, you could use that, having it update on change.

Might also want to see if there is a way to restrict inventory dropping to your land control group.

Thank you all for the many idea's . Looks like I'll be speaking to a scripter to see if its practical to offer the service to people renting. I'll be sure to point him in this direction for idea's

If anyone has any other suggestions by all means pass them along.

Just to chime in...yup, it's annoying that I can't change the color of the office I rent. There should be an easy 'allow perms' to the renter if the owner sees fit...

Some tenants shouldn't be allowed to manipulate the previous color scheme...lol. While other more capable residents have the savvy and eye for it.

By the way, in all the places I have rented so far, if I didn't like the walls or if I wanted a logo sign, I just covered them with my own prims or made my own sign. Though one nicely designed merchant street that I rented on had store signs that the sim owner would set up for the merchants, and that didn't count againt your prims. That was actually rather nice.

If your interested in a scripted linked texture changing device, my partners and I developed one for a photo studio once. It was only usable by the group, and then with a hud which the owner gave out. It also automatically loaded any texture put into the prims. This meant you had to drop your texture in all the prims of course. It did not however scale to suit your individual needs, but overall was a pretty handy device. Contact me in world if you're interested. One of us still has a copy I'm sure.

I think yes, many people let the tenants or renter choose the texture for walls , floor etc like me in my shops