User:Luisa Bourgoin/Burn2

The Burning Man Temple rebuilt inside SecondLife

If you take a tour around Flickr, searching for snapshots of the original built you will see visitors left inscriptions on the construction wood. I aimed for establishing something similar for the SL Temple rebuilt.

The technology restrictions are very limiting. Since some years the most one can do to add text onto a Prim is using hoovertext. The LSL call llSetText() allows showing up to somewhat 255 chars above a Prim.

Some tinkering revealed that the position of the text shown is dependant on the Z size of the Primitive. Mostly one experiences hoovertext floating way above of any item, because builders can't change Z size to make it fit better, in any cases.

Taking these two ideas, using small Z sizes and a substring of the total data amount of user-recorded text has lead onto the following code. It scrolls through the user recorded chat messages. People left up to a dozen poem lines on the construction plywood that years.

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