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Limiting Text Chat Range?
Shambolic Walkenberg
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06-01-2009 18:23
I'm trying, and failing, to find a way to limit the range of normal (text) chat to my parcel boundaries. Is there any way at all to do this?
Eva Ryan
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06-01-2009 18:34
In a word, No. It's built into the server software.

Whisper = 10 meters
Speak = 20 meters
Shout = 100 meters
Shambolic Walkenberg
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06-01-2009 18:40
Damn.

Thought as much, but hoped there was some secret trick to it :-(
Nina Stepford
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06-01-2009 19:59
this is the stuff fantasies are made of.
it would be great if local chat were more like voice chat, with the possibility to have a private parcel channel.
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RockAndRoll Michigan
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06-02-2009 02:09
Which is why there's a jira entry promoting the creation of llParcelSay.
Ava Velde
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06-02-2009 09:33
From: Shambolic Walkenberg
I'm trying, and failing, to find a way to limit the range of normal (text) chat to my parcel boundaries. Is there any way at all to do this?


I use:

Skype, MSN, or:

IRQ

*waves*
Shambolic Walkenberg
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06-02-2009 11:04
From: RockAndRoll Michigan
Which is why there's a jira entry promoting the creation of llParcelSay.


Can someone explain in plain English what the two jiras in the search results for that actually mean?

/me is not so good with script speak

If they'd mean a checkbox in the land properties, to restrict local chat to the parcel, then all good cause that's what I'd be wanting to do! :)

From: Ava Velde
I use:

Skype, MSN, or:

IRQ

*waves*


Hmmm, not exactly an in world solution for trying to have just the one window running, and be able to chat away without disrupting the neighbours!
Meade Paravane
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06-02-2009 11:16
/me points and shouts "VOTE!"

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1224

From: SVC-1224
New feature: llParcelSay

Similar to llRegionSay, it might be nice to have a chat function that goes to every resident/script on a parcel. Since it'd be limited to a single parcel, I think the no-channel-0 restriction that llRegionSay has wouldn't be needed.


From: Shambolic Walkenberg
Can someone explain in plain English what the two jiras in the search results for that actually mean?

They're asking for different things. SVC-1224 asks for llParcelSay and SVC-1532 asks for llDefinedSay (or llRangedSay) that works like llSay/llWhisper/llShout but you can tell it how far to go.


From: Shambolic Walkenberg
Hmmm, not exactly an in world solution for trying to have just the one window running, and be able to chat away without disrupting the neighbours!

Oh... That'd be yet another feature request. The other two JIRA issues are scripting-only things..
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Sling Trebuchet
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06-02-2009 12:01
Although...

LLParcelSay on channel 0 would allow only those on the parcel to hear.

Anyone who wanted to 'say' something would need to chat at a device that relayed what theyed type via LLParcelSay ... so it's not quite the 'normal chat' of the OP.

I once sat around in a circle of friends having a chat session that could not be overheard outside the parcel

I passed out copies of a placard-on--a-pole.
Every thing we typed on channel 1 got displayed on the placard we held.

It was a fun chat session.
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Meade Paravane
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06-02-2009 13:00
/me adds http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-4331

From: SVC-4331
new "About Land -> Chat Doesn't Cross Parcel Bounds" option

It'd be nice to have a parcel option that would allow owners to say that people chatting on their land can't be heard by neighboring parcels, even if they're within 20m. Or, plan B, maybe an option where owners can say that chat from neighboring parcels don't make it onto their land.
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Oryx Tempel
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06-02-2009 13:29
Hooray! Thanks Meade, this rocks.
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Meade Paravane
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06-02-2009 13:30
:)
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Damien1 Thorne
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06-02-2009 13:34
Wouldn't llParcelSay have the same scripting concerns as llSay?
Meade Paravane
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06-02-2009 13:39
From: Damien1 Thorne
Wouldn't llParcelSay have the same scripting concerns as llSay?

Er.. Right.

/me edits the llStuff comments from the description.
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Shambolic Walkenberg
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06-02-2009 16:58
From: Meade Paravane
/me adds http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-4331


I'm amazed this hasn't been done before (my search skills are such that I didn't want to lose my jira cherry duplicating somethnig already there)!

Thank you, looked at and voted :)