4    Administering Your Palace Site

What to do

How to do it

Automatically kick off users who send lots of 

 flood

 command

messages

Create a list of authorized URLS for web 

 allowedurls [on|off|URLstring] 

based user access.

command

Create custom avatars for web based users 

 avatarurl [on|off|URLstring] 

command.

1.  Guests have limited privileges to your Palace site; they cannot wear props nor have custom 

avatars.

2.  You can also allow robots room by room through from your Palace user software. Enter opera 

tor mode using the instructions in Owner and operator commands on page 30, go to the spe 

cific room, then select Wizard:Room Info, and check No User Scripts. 

3.  For more information, see Owner and operator commands on page 30.

Changing the look of your Palace site

You can change the look of your Palace site by customizing and adding rooms. These 

rooms can be linked together, have original artwork, and scripts that execute when 

users enter the rooms. You can use a new template from the Palace to change the look 

of your entire Palace site. You can also create and customize rooms with new art and 

scripts through authoring mode on the stand alone Palace User Software.

Using a new Palace template file

The easiest way to change the look of your Palace is to download a template from the 

Palace website and then have your Palace use this new template. Templates are the 

look and feel of your Palace site; they contain artwork, sounds, scripts and a 

configuration file (

.pat)

 containing information about your Palace rooms. The Palace 

website has many different configuration files you can download, such as a beach 

resort or an office. You can download as many of these templates as you like, and 

change the look and feel of your Palace whenever you want.

To obtain a new template, go to the downloads page and select the templates section. 

To use this new template, configure your Palace to use the

 .pat 

file associated with 

this template.

M

To use a new .pat file

Use the 

roomsfile command to indicate the template you want. For example:

 roomsfile "psdata/Beach.pat"

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