Two Q's: Locking a building down, and security

Is it possible to lock a building in place so that it can't be accidentally selected or moved while you are moving objects around inside it? Also, is there a way to prevent ppl fr going through your house w/ cam control? Will ban do it? Are there any other security measures to keep peepers fr looking through your stuff?

In the edit box while you have the prims selected. check the box called "lock"

No way to keep people from doing that....except buy up all the land around your property and turn on the banlines.
You could also put your building high up in the sky. Someone with wings could still look in, but they'd need to know the buildings there. For all other avi's on land, you would be out of sight.

TY MM for that ...

Sooo very duh, on the lock click in edit. LOL -- and TY for the advice on the skybox fix. Sigh ... I really wanted to stay on the ground ... and just hate ban lines. Not good for flying my pod.

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Actually ban lines won't affect you. You won't see them and anyone you add to your land's access list won't see them. For those with access, flying will not be impeded.

Everyone else without access, will see them and be affected.

Thanks, Stephanie. I was talking about other ppl's ban lines and trying to fly my pod around them. I can barely ride it anymore since so many ppl have ban lines up in my sim. I didn't want to have to put them up, but it seems like the only workable solution to keep strangers from peeping in my windows. I wish there were a better way.

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I think ban lines only go to a certain height so if you fly at a high enough altitude, you won't be affected bythem.
Of course, that takes away some(all?) of the fun of flying I suppose.


and don't sweat not seeing the "lock" feature. Theres all sorts of stuff that I am still learning as I go.

Don't sweat the strangers looking in the windows. they're just curious. I usually notice people doing that with my minimap and if they hang around too long I stop what I'm doing and go over and say hello.
this usually catches them off guard and they either stay and chat for a bit or they just disappear. LOL

Ban lines do not stop people from moving their camera/viewpoint into your property. Neither can any security system. The only way to use ban lines to stop cameras is to have your house or whatever private area far enough from all edges of your property that nobody can get their camera to it.

I'm told there are ways to defeat ban lines even if you do this, but itt would stop most people. If you don't have enough land to get that much setback, there's no possibility of real privacy ...putting up ban lines won't help, so why not be a nice guy and leave them down?

Ban lines will keep people out.. but some can glitch in, and they do only go so high. if you have a sky box, i would recommend a ban/security script that will remove anyone within an alloted amount of time you set in a radius of 96M usually.

As far as camera controls go.. anyone skillfull with this can peep anywhere. There are tricks and limits with this, that can help someone view up as far as possible, given the right circumstances. the only way to have complete control over this would be to have a sim. Disable scripts, fly, push and build. Ban 3/4 of it and have a house 600M to 700M high with nothing else around. i can't think of any other way. Of course i am sure there are other ways and scripts that can keep people from viewing in. I always test the limits of this ability

Actually there is absolutely nothing to prevent someone from using the camera to get in.

The only way to stop someone from seeing into your property is to own your own sim and lock it down.

Camera constraints can be disabled making it where someone can camera anywhere in the sim they want without having to move at all.


The security bots to keep people out of a skybox that's above the lines is fine....however, I caution you to put a warning timer and limiter on such devices. Ones that have no warning and TP anyone that comes on the parcel at all instantly are not only rude, but could get someone reported like I'm close to doing to the lone wolf airport near my main store. My customers are complaining about get TP'd home instantly when flying demos of my vehicles and I'm getting tired of getting the vehicles returned to me when they zoom unpiloted off world.

Course I think it's rude to buy land almost directly in front of a starhip/shuttle store and put up ban lines anyway...especially to put up a skybox that's above their lines and they had to use this griefer bot to protect it anyway.

The advice about the mini-map has been great. I have used the map already to spot peepers and curiosity seekers coming up close. I really, at this point, have no intentions of putting up ban lines on my prop, as I like ppl to see what I have done with my little spot on the sim. I have also now learned to just ask ppl with nearby ban lines if I can be on their access list -- no one has said "no" yet. LOL

TY for all the great advice on the skyboxes, too. I do plan to build one at some point, if I can resist using up all my prims on landscaping!

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