Will transparent prim stop copybot?

If you encase your work in a transparent prim will that stop copybot? I know that it would be prohibitive to encase large items if you are close to your prim limit.

What about de-linking your work? Would they have to copy each little piece?

Last question, is there a way to detect an ingame snapshot? If so, it would be fun to program a transparent prim to react to that and flash a watermark between the camera and the item.

They could mouse inside a transparent prim.

De-linking can make it far harder for them to copy. Some sculptors are doing this now to protect major sculptures.

Flashing a visual wouldn't help, as it is the prim data that gets cloned, nit what you see visually.

I advise placing a 'signature' texture on all unseen surfaces (rather than blank or plywood), or on a surface that is normally colored to black or a very dark color. The signature texture would get copied with the rest of the linked parts.

Delinking will limit the copybot to copying all the prims and textures, but none of the positions/rotations. The end result is a 3d jigsaw puzzle. But any reasonably determined person can reconstruct your object if given enough time.

a transparent prim would not do jack, if its an object the copy bot can intercept its data no matter if its made out of transparent prims , opeq prims, or jello prims ...

delinking would slow it down to a crawl tho ... since each prim would repersent a seperate object

lets face it, if your using copy bot as a pirate tool, your probally too lazy to get all of the prims one by one and copy them and re-sculpt the object

altho if someone handed me a 256 prim statue unlinked i would be pissed

which extreme do you wish to face, i guess thats the argument .....


personally its not effected me .. 99% of my items are made out of basic simple prims, that a 3 year old would be able to point out ... if i were a sculpter, biulder, whatever else i would have more of an opinion about the whole thing

imo this is nothing new ... just a next gen, more publicly aware way of doing it

So copybot grabs the textures too? I knew you can get the textures via other means, but didn't realise that copybot snatches them.

It applies the same texture that was on the origional to the copy. You still can not do anything else with that texture unless you already owned a copy of it. You will not get a copy in your inventory and can not put a one from the copied item into your inventory.

But you can still stretch and align the textures on the prims I assume?

And also, if you was to make further copies of the copybot clone using normal SL tools, would the texture be retained on those further copies?

Yes, Hiro. Just as you can duplicate a prim that has a texture on it that you do not own.

Case in point. I worked with another builder to design a house. She happened to use a texture for a walkway that I didn't own. I can still take one of my copies of the house that she and I built, and can copy individual prims for that walkway, and can re-shape them at will, and they retain the textures they started with. So I am certain that this could be done with a structure duplicated with Copybot, as well.

I'm looking seriously at using Rex Foo or similar products to deliver homes to customers, and making them of far more individual sections. The customer can still use their rez box to re-rez or move the build, but a copybot thief would get individual odd sections...