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Ability to edit all prims owned by parcel?

Saur0n Hax
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Join date: 2 Jul 2007
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05-18-2008 17:01
I was wondering if there was anyway to select every prim on a parcel for bulk editing. What I'd like to do is raise everything on my parcel high enough so that people can't see the ugly stuff my nieghbor has built. hehe Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks
Keira Wells
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05-18-2008 17:19
You could click & drag around all of them with 'select only my objects' enabled in the tools menu.

This keeps you from accidentally selecting a neighbor's items and getting 'can't reposition' errors.
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Xhawkx Holden
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05-18-2008 17:54
you can also edit one object and the SHIFT click others.. selecting mutiple
Ceera Murakami
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05-18-2008 19:07
One thing to watch out for is LOD culling. If you are, let's say, hovering 100 M above your parcel, you can select "Select only my objects" in the Tools menu, select one item, and then shift and drag-select to grab *everything you can see*. But small linksets that are entirely invisible to you because of distance will NOT be included. For example, I successfully selected a three-story building and all its interior doors, but missed the two porch lights that were separate linksets, and too small for me to see.

Best trick:

As before, activate the "Select only my objects" button.

In the "Advanced" menu, go to Rendering, and in the pop-up for that, check "Hide Selected".

Now, walk up to your front door, and select it. The prims will vanish, leaving only highlighted edges. Shift click and repeat this to select every item that you own. You can also drag-select to add more items to what is selected.

Eventually you'll see that all the desired prims are now just glowing prim edge outlines, and none of them are otherwise visible. Now is the time to drag it all upward, as you propose.

I use this trick to make sure I haven't accidentally left behind any unlinked prims when I link together a complex build.
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Kitty Barnett
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05-18-2008 20:34
Added suggestion for Ceera's method: if everything you own on the parcel is down on the land you can use your prim count in About Land. When the number of prims selected matches the number of your prims on the land, you'll know that you got all of it.

As an added note: Linden plants never select with drag-selecting, you need to shift-click them to add them to the current selection.

(Personally I just select everything one by one as I go and in this particular case manually add an easy number to Z. Nothing is going to go wrong that way and it's not going to take a whole lot more time or is actually faster if you want to drag everything from 20m to 1000m which involves a whole lot of incremental dragging with the chance of loosing control if you try to drag something too far out of range)
Boreal Latte
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05-19-2008 05:27
From: Saur0n Hax
What I'd like to do is raise everything on my parcel high enough so that people can't see the ugly stuff my nieghbor has built. hehe

He he - I just got this picture of Charlie Chaplin and Jack Oakie sitting in each their barber chair in the movie "The Great Dictator".

No, I have nothing further to add how to carry out the practicalities.