I am not quite happy with how difficult it is to derender stuff when you KNOW nobody visiting your land wants to see that stuff. I’d love to be able to give a “touch box” or a parcel experience with “recommended objects to derender,” and it would do so automatically if your visitors choose. But that, just like leaving massive objects right in your neighbor’s doorstep, can be abused, and I guess big object -owners came first and are thus served first.
Anyway. You can derender stuff you want to avoid seeing, making your neighbor’s or favorite spot’s view uncluttered by junk like this. The drawback is that you might find a romantic spot, and want to take your significant other on a lovely date, but to do that, they first have to derender a bunch of crap so it doesn’t ruin the date! I have a suggestion later on, tho.
Anyway, I suggest you practice derendering on my neighbors’ items in Jonesford, where Carnal Elite location, and my newbie info stuff currently is. (Apparently, the owner is no longer active but “isn’t going anywhere,” so f***.)
What derendering do?
Derendering is a non-intrusive way to stop yourself from seeing unattractive objects. It will only hide the objects from your view, but remain unaltered to anyone who hasn’t derendered them. The owner will not know you can’t see their objects.
When the owner removes the objects, they’ll also be removed from your asset blacklist list, that you can see from World-> Asset Blacklist. From here, you can also “remove” the objects from the list that make them reappear in the world.
How to derender?
You can go through each item one by one, but it’s really not practical. Rather, use Area Search and blacklist all of a specific owner’s items at once. If you only remove their walls, you’ll have floating furniture to deal with and what not, but this way, you’ll get rid of it all at once.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to derendering Second Life objects in bulk.
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Find the offender.
Find the ba****rd who did this by right clicking one of the objects you want to never see again. Find the OWNER of the object, not creator but the owner.
Copy their name (from their profile is easiest.)
2. Go to World->Area Search
From World, Area Search, Find all objects that belong to the said user. If it comes up empty, you may have to go to their region if they’re a region-neighbor, and if the access to it is blocked, you may have to go to the filter tab and UNTIC “exclude neighbouring regions” box.
3. Select everything that b***rd owns and blacklist it.
(I love hating my neighbors. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Love loving them, too, really. Anyway.)
Select everything they own with a click at the top, hold down sift and click at the last item until they’re all blue. Then, right click on “blacklist.” The objects will vanish instantly.
4. You might still see crap.
You might still see stuff you don’t want to, like in this case, another neighbor trying to hide the same s*** with a nicer sky backdrop, but I don’t need it there anymore, so I’ll blacklist it, too, although I understand why they put it there.
Another reason may be that there’s more than one creator on the parcel in question. Go to edit mode with another object and search by group instead, or simply find the owners.
I’ll do this for this particular object only; it’s right click, more, more, derender, blacklist.
5. Enjoy the clear view.
Prepare for a date, party, or event by sending derender instructions to your guests.
If you know the place you want to take a guest to, maybe bring them near the spot you’ll take them to a day or two early.
If it’s a surprise, ask them to lower their view distance to 32, and keep them as far away from the spot as possible, perhaps on a neighboring region, and ask them to untick the “exclude neighboring regions” tick from the search filters. Then, have them derender the stuff before the date.
If you figure they’re the curious type, and you really want to throw them off your scent, take them to some random spots you found ugly things on and have them do the same on all of it.
Builders
I would always build while the neighbors crap is out, and try to create scenes that hide it as much as possible. Then once you’re quite happy with your parcel, derender, and perhaps advice regulars on how to do the same.