Plant a Movie (and random streaming experiments)

With the advent of streaming movies in 1.6, and the ability to pick any texture by key, I noticed that you can also change the textures of trees. I just opened up "trees.xml" in my secondlife folder to get the key of the tree, and then set PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_TEXTURE to that texture key. Now, the video is not transparent, The tree will turn into "blocks"... Well, here, I'll take a picture:



Quicktime also can open images. JPG's, even TGA's. I tried making transparent versions of both and was unable to find any way to make the transparency carry over... So using this as a "hack" to replace the Linden Tree textures with my own textures ain't happenen it appears. And I have no idea what it could be used for, but I'd bet somebody, somewhere out there can use a "Streaming Tree" for something...

This can also be done with particles, your streaming movie texture can be a particle's texture, and this could be used to make a "flickering" monitor among other things...

So, I'd guess that someone could also replace the default ground, water, other textures, ect... Strife has already shown how we can replace the mouse cursor to make HUD's...

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Just tried setting my skin itself as the streaming media texture and it did NOT work, FYI... Tho I can think of about as uses for the "Streaming skin" as I can for the "Streaming tree"

i tried the "movie" shirt couple days ago. likewise failed. but have found that i can view my movie on a neighbors parcel (i believe someone already posted this).

Cunningham fan, huh? nice vid.

You can view your movie on a prim on someone elses land in the next sim, even.

No you can't. Movies won't display unless you're inside the parcel they're streaming from.

You can stand on the plot that is streaming the video and see the video anywhere within your view. When I set up my movie screen I used a default poured concrete texture. My neighbor, about 100m away in another sim, had also used this texture on thier build and I could plainly see my video playing on it. Its true you have to be on the originating movie plot to see the movie, but any texture that is being used as the screen will show the movie. The only restriction is how far you can see.

Heh, Aphex Twin fan. Cunningham's alright, has done a lot of his videos.

Elle pollack said "No you can't."

I'm sorry Elle, my statement is absolutely correct, I've done it.

Of course, the video you see is that set for the land you are standing on, but it doesn't matter where the texture is if it matches the media texture for the land you're standing on, even in the next sim.

Trust me, Elle, it's true. Go try it.