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Using same movie on multple prim with different positioning.

Dao Tiger
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Join date: 29 Nov 2005
Posts: 26
02-01-2006 13:07
I've seen movies played on more than one prim. I was referring to several TV prims playing the same thing at the same time. If that is true that we can do that, can one scale the movie inside each prim to show only a section of the movie. Like prim 1,2,3 and 4 displays the same movie loaded from a URL at the same time. Prim 1 would show the top left section of the movie and prim 2 shows the top right section of the same movie and prim 3 shows the lowerleft and prim 4 shows the lower right of the movie. I want the same movie play on all the prims at the same speed and frames but have each prim show a different section of the same movie. Can anyone help me get started on building this movie prim?

Dao Tiger
Lord Wishbringer
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Join date: 3 Dec 2004
Posts: 209
02-01-2006 14:22
Two ways of doing this:

First way is you can apply the tv script to four seperate prims,then using the tools in the edit menu,stretch the texture on each prim so each is showing a corner of the full picture,then offset them so they line up.

Second way is stretch one prim with the tv script/texture and rez another the same size with a simple cross texture on it with an alpha channel so you can see each corner of the large screen through the transparent alpha part of the second prim.

-LW