Inara Pey

The Bellisseria Linden Homes all come with a land capacity of 351 LI. With mesh and considerate use of Convex Hull physics when linking humble prims together (or to mesh), this can add-up to a lot when kitting out your new home. 

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However, when it comes to vehicles - particularly for those of us living on the waters of Bellisseria - much of that 351 LI capacity can all too quickly vanish when placing out our favourite boats and planes. When we have more than one favourite, this can lead to both some hard choices, and at times a tedious amount of swapping between rezzed vehicles and those in inventory, and the associated irritation of then aligning boats / planes with piers / moorings.   

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One way around this - and remembering to both be considerate of script use, and the fact you must still reserve LI for your "heaviest" (LI-wise) boat / plane, plus vehicles must be Copy / Modify for this to work - is to use a rezzing system. It doesn't solve all the problems you may encounter when wanting all your boats / planes available, but it can make it more convenient in making them available when you have limited space / LI-wise, and don't want to keep pulling stuff out of inventory (and while I'm specifically talking houseboats / boats / seaplanes here, the idea can equally apply to road vehicles). 

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Note that in saying this, I am not talking about any kind of temp rezzer; those are an absolute blight on SL and should be avoided (and are against the Bellisseria covenant anyway). 

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One of the more suitable rezzing systems I've used for this over the years is the RF Device / Multi-Scene Rezzer. I point to this system for a handful of reasons: 

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•    It costs just L$250;
•    It is comparative low-script (133 kb)
•    It is flexible and can be put to a variety of uses (want to have a number of furniture layouts available? the RF system can do 

      this as well). 
•    It is exceptionally easy to use, and the rezzer can be repositioned without the need to re-record the rezzed positions of its

      contents. 

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In addition, and in particular, the system allows you to select between whether the system rezzes individual items (automatically deleting anything previously rezzed from it), or groups of objects (with the same removal options), or rezzing objects while leaving other rezzed (or manually deleting them). For vehicle rezzing purposes, it is the first and last of these options that are of particular interest. 

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This first option is particularly useful if you have limited space / LI in which to place (say) your boats, as you can have the system automatically delete a currently rezzed vehicle and rez the next when swapping. The image below demonstrates this approach. 

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The option to leave objects rezzed when rezzing others is useful if you have particular vehicle rezzed and might only occasionally want to remove, and wish to rez-up another for use, and dispose of it later. 

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For example, with my houseboat, furnishings, decor and mooring account for 122 LI. This allows me to keep my two favourite Bandit boats (my 460AK and 50/3) "permanently" moored, while having 66 LI set aside for friends' boats when they visit, or for rezzing  /swapping between some of my other vehicles. I only need to delete one or other of the Bandits should I wish to have an equally-heavy (LI-wise) vehicle such as my DSA C90 King Air rezzed, I can easily delete one of the Bandits and then re-rez it after I've done with the C90 (and deleted it) in the knowledge it will rez and be correctly aligned with its moorings without me having to fiddle around with manually placing it. Both of these options are shown in the image below (note vehicles are manually deleted by me between each rezzing).  

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Using the RF Device / Multi-Scene rezzer is simplicity itself:

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•    Place the rezzer control panel (2 LI) where you want to use it (note that in the images that follow, I've customised the textures

     on my rezzer). 
•    Position your first Copy / Modify vehicle where you wish it to be rezzed. 
•    Edit the vehicle and drop the RF scene rezzer script into the contents of your vehicle. Wait a second or two for the vehicle's rez

      position within the region to be stored. 
•    Take the vehicle back to inventory, then edit the control panel and drop the vehicle into the panel's contents.
•    Repeat for all remaining vehicles. 

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To rez a vehicle, touch the rezzer and then click the number button corresponding to the vehicle you wish to rez. 

To configure the "control panel", right-click on it for 2+ seconds and the admin menu will open (shown above). This will allow you to:

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•    Set access rights to the rezzer (owner / group / all). Note this will *not* affect the rights assigned to any vehicles rezzed from

     the unit (so setting access to All means anyone can rez a vehicle, but they cannot necessarily sit in / drive the vehicle - those

     rights are still set from the vehicle itself.). 
•    Determine whether anything already rezzed from the unit should be deleted or not prior to rezzing another item. 
•    As noted above, this is useful if you have limited space for vehicles, and don't want them appear one "on top" of the other. 
•    Set the range at which the rezzer can be operated, and the maximum distance at which it will clear rezzed objects (thus

      allowing you to use 2 rezzers, if this were required).

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Obviously, using rezzing systems like this isn’t a new idea;  it’s probably as old as the (Second Life) hills in some respects. But, if you haven’t considered it before and re pushed for LI capacity with your Linden houseboat (or home, as noted above), trying out something like the RF Device / Multi-Scene rezzer might be worth considering if you don't want to resort to constantly pulling stuff out of inventory and positioning it whenever you want to use it.