"Sound"proofing.

Is there anyway to "sound"proof a prim so that if you are inside the prim, no one can hear you outside and vice versa.

For that matter, is there any way to have a real sound (like music and stuff) NOT play in specific rooms?

Thanks for your help.

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... But seriously....

I don't think this is possible, unless the object has walls greater than 30m thick.

As for actual sound files and music... there's not really any cure for that.

how would people feel about either lowering chat distance or allowing more flexibility on how far you can be heard?

Would be nice to be able to have a quick private chat with a group of people without having to all exchange cards an enter a group IM.

Part of prob is measuring distance, I guess if they're all huddled in a There-like chatgroup circle and bound to that it ain't such a prob then. I'd be up for that on occasion.

Sometimes there is privacy wanted, understandable, and someone flies by and tries to nudge in so the topic is changed. If you could do lockable chat circles, that has a purpose. (And I know, some will say "it's rude" and it could be perceived as such, but going into IM can be construed as such too... the other party just doesn't know it.)

Logical extension of having such a sense of community in SL is that control for privacy will come, or at least be asked, to come along with it.

Tail wags the dog!

I'm not exactly sure how far Whisper actually goes.. but may be it could be possible to add a button or something to allow people to switch to Whisper-mode. Objects can whisper, so that means avatar/agents could too but there just isn't a mechanism in place to whisper yet. It still doesn't prevent people from eavesdropping.. heck.. with camera controls, you can spy on someone behind a thick wall anyway..

Use IMs, group your calling cards into folders and use the folder to open the dialog with that group of people. Or.. build a skybox at an obnoxiously high altitude.. oh wait.. that would be rude.. lol

Our group was trying to think of a way for just Officers to talk without other people listening in. We decided to just create a new group for just the officers. However, maybe a feature suggestion could be to have multiple levels in a group, and have level-based IM's instead of just whole-group-based.

Anyways...

Marcus

I was thinking more of the room defines the area where the conversation travels.

For instance, if I was upstairs in a house, I wouldn't hear what was going on downstairs in the room that's on the opposet side.

It's not so much that I'm trying to keep a conversation private, more like trying to keep what goes on in the room stays in the room....

I'd like to see this kind of a feature...somethin' where you could simply drop a script into a wall that "destroys" all sound attempting to travel beyond it...


...of course, that's not likely to happen. I would assume (probably very safely) that the distance in which a say can be heard is determined when the avatar or object finishes typing and hits the "enter" button. At this point, a line of code fires saying "distribute this voice for xx sq. m." depending on whether they are whispering/saying/shouting. There is no "collision test" in this instance.

This seems like it would be a great feature for apartment buildings.

Sound filtering elements in SL are greatly limited. Being underwater doesn't provide as convincing "mufflage" as it could, and not enough environments take advantage of ambient sound fully. Infact, quite a few use the same pitched-up water loop, which is not wrong but points to a lack of variety.

Like popular computer games, having reverb in a long hall or cathedral-type building would contribute greatly. This might be like the audio equiv. of pixel shaders, artistically.

More to calculate tho.

It's not real practical, but you *could* divide your land into a seperate plot for each room or rooms you want to restrict sound to. Then there's an option in the land tools where you can "restrict ambient sound to this parcel". There's no nice built-in solution for text chat, however.

It would be really nice if Gesture type sounds were limited to chat range as well.

Not too many things more annoying than hearing someone's gestures when we're on opposite sides of a sim.

Funny, there used to be a "Chat with" command on the avatar pie menu that used to pull you into a There style "cone of silence" with a chat range of like 2m. No one ever used it.

You guys have one major advantage right at home....its called turning off your speakers, and turning up your Stereo! Or if you can live without winamp <like me> its called simply moving away from ppl who are sound spammers, hehehe ^_^

via prim-usage, this isnt posible, becasue of our lack of tangeble planes, where things would have to intersect to create your safety bubble with scripts...

However, you could create a whisper box in the center of the room , and simply "/say" everything, where the whisper range would only be as large as the room.

Also, i had a conversasion once about why you dont need private rooms when you have the availablity of private messages. The fact remains, it's still a bitch to start a conference, and it's far easier to speak in general chat than to fumble with an IM window.