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Answer to Multiple Movie Screens.

Jessica Elytis
Goddess
Join date: 7 Oct 2005
Posts: 1,783
08-15-2006 10:56
In reguards to this post /139/95/130181/1.html Contrary to what Kelly posted, it is possible to view more than one screen on your land.

The trick is to subdivide your land into seperate parcels. I reccomend having an experianced person(s) help you with this division. I would also suggest laying out the borders you wish to have (for where you want each seperate screen) in prims to assist in your thoughts.
!!!WARNING!!! Be extremely careful when subdividing or combining lands. If it gets set to "sell" and the price is ridiculously low, there are people using scripts and bots who will "swoop" your land out from under you. Set prices into the millions to be safe and tripple check everything before clicking accept.

This has no effect on your tier, but does add to the complexity of your land management as each parcel is concidered it's own seperate land. Setting the land to a group may work, but I would advise waiting until the new land options for groups in version 1.12 are out and you familiarise yoruself with those first.

NOTE:: You will also need seperate viewers for each parcel, so concider this cost as well. You will also need to set the land option to restrict sounds to the parcel to prevent movies from "overlapping" each other on sound.

~Jessy
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
08-15-2006 11:10
Ah I am sorry I wasn't clear enough.

You can only view 1 movie with any 1 viewer from any 1 parcel.

A parcel can be subdivided into multiple parcels, and each of those can have their own movie stream. However you can not sit in the middle and watch 2 or more streams. You can only see (and hear) the movie that is playing on the parcel you are on.

You do not need to set restrict sounds to prevent overlapping movie sounds. You will only hear sounds from the 1 movie that is playing on your parcel. It may still be advisable to use this to block out other sounds being played on the other parcels, but you will not get overlapping movie sounds.

If you have a repro for overlapping movie sounds from streaming movies I would be interested in seeing that.
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