2013 Kit: Land: About Land Window

About Land Window 

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You use the About Land Window to see and change the settings on a parcel of land. 

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The instructions here are for Viewer 3.2 and later.  Instruction details may not apply to other viewers.  Right click on the land for things you can do with/to your land. 

Land options

Right click on land
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Vocabulary

• About Land Window:  World (top menu) -- About Land 
• Edit terrain, Terraform.*  Terraforming, Starter page
• Parcel. Like a lot or plot of ground.
• Region/Sim, private sim, private island, estate   Region, sim, parcel
• Subdivide: Create separate parcels. How to subdivide and join parcels
• Access control: Access control, parcels, regions and estates.
• Group, Deed to: Transfers ownership to the group.
• Group, Set to: allows group members to set objects to the group, avoid autoreturn

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About Land Window

General Tab

• Information about the parcel.
• Parcels are often set to groups.  
• This allows some building rights for the group.
• Parcels may be deeded to groups.  
• Deeding allows extensive group control.
• The settings in the about land windows can only be set by the parcel owner.
• Or by someone in the group to which the land in deeded. 
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• CAUTION. Deeding land to a group

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About Land Window

Objects Tab

• Information about object in the parcel
• Controls to find and return objects on the parcel

About Land, 
Options window
• Permissions control what people can do on the parcel.
• You can limit building, for example, to members of the owning group

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About Land Window, Media Tab
You can set a media source (usually video) on the land.  You set the web link on this page.  You also specify a particular texture to be used where you want the video to appear.  Normally, you would put this texture on a large flat prim to make a screen.  You can put the texture in multiple places and on prims of odd shapes to produce unusual effects.

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About Land Window, Sound Tab

You can set an audio stream on the parcel with this tab.  Note that you use a special kind of web link.  An ordinary link to a web page will not work.  Most sources that stream music or audio via the web will list a streaming link on the web page.  The following link tells you how to get and use the streaming link from any Shoutcast site. 

Guide to streaming audio. Shoutcast. Performances.

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The sound window also has check boxes for controlling voice

• Enable/disable voice on the parcel
• Restrict voice to the parcel or let voice cross to other parcels.

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About Land Window, Access Tab

Specify conditions for entering the parcel and listing banned residents.

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Parcel: Part (or all) of your land that will have the same settings. You can cut you land into multiple parcels . Parcels can be as small as 4x4 meters. Each parcel can (and should) have a different name and different settings.

Parcels: How to subdivide and join parcels 

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