1.8 Already?

coco

The exciting bit to me is the Z coord being supported.

I look forward to seeing Z in the bar at the top of the screen, instead of just X,Y the way it is now!

Hi ya, just done the testing on this and duration is new for 1.8, passing a time to either the new add functions will add them for x amount of time, the about land boxes with say like (5 minutes remaining) etc after their name, if you pass a value of 0 or lower for float it will ban them indefinately which is just like adding them manually, the access list looks good as it will allow the scripted control of access for x minutes or hours etc and this could be triggered by the money event

While I know it's a preview, it's weird what bugs crop up in areas where supposedly no change is taking place.

Try stacking a bunch of physics cubes and you'll see them stay spaced apart as if the calculated size is bigger than the visible size.

Does this mean they are working on the issues with collisions?

I haven't seen an explanation of llTeleportAgent yet. Could someone give me an example of how this function will work? Obviously it's different than simply TPing someone to you, or using a TP device to teleport somewhere; 'splain it to me, Lucy?

Thanks.

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** Future LSL functions:
* llTeleportAgent(key avatar, string simname, vector position, vector lookat) (?)
- Teleport an avatar at a location (requires agent permission)

I think it would work like this.
You click my new Fancy come to my shop thingy. A blue dialog menu pops up with some info(simname, position, etc) and a yes and no button. Press yes and *poof* there you are at Frans' Turkey Farm.

Oh joy. Real scripted teleportation.
Now we can have even better querilla tactics and such.

Like a really big wind machine? I though that's what those big fans at Abbotts were for.

My nVidia 5600 doesn't seem to lose many FPS looking at a sim full of water. And they could make it like particles, let you tone it down or tun it off. I'm glad they let you put a limit on the particles instead of just enabling or disabling them. I wish they'd do that for shiny, too, I mean... in RL even a mirror doesn't look as shiny as high shiny makes stuff look... and I'd much rather 'turn it down" than "turn it off".

Err. that happened in 1.6 and 1.7, and it's been documented for ever. The bounding box of an object for physics calculations has always been a little larger than the object itself.

Even better, a teleport HUD. You put it on and it'll track your teleports and let you teleport back to your last location or a preprogrammed waypoint.

Examples of use could be a hud device with a favorites list of places, or say the infonet terminal could have a button teleport to this location etc, another use would be to replace sithack teleporters (although they will be more reliable where landing spots are in use)

Welcome to havok 1.0, the collision detection is only accurate to about 0.01, which is why that's the minimum size of objects in world.

This reminds me of the "spaghetti code" term from long ago, code written in such a convoluted, tortured, twisted path that a little change in one spot causes unforseen troubles somewhere else.

I hope that is not really what is going on.

The term is still in use. And yes, I'd bet money that's precisely what's going on. For the record though, it always happens to some degree in projects involving groups of developers larger than 1. Employee turnover also does it. Even just a long enough period of time does it.

oh ya, gold star for spelling spaghetti right . I never get it right.

OK, so in other words, not that much different than today's TP devices, except without the 300m/same sim limits?

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Correct P2P teleports in the same sim are veryyy quick around a second, as assets dont need to be saved, and no limits on distances etc, although the limit here is with if there is a landing point and you will be taken to the closest one, if no landing point it will work exactly as a sithack tp, ie click an object, accept permission and go, in theory you could have it detect you via collision so have a stand on pad to detect your key, which asks permission then you go.

Yea but the gap is bigger now... you could stack cubes just fine before

I'm trying out P2P in the v1.8 preview, and I'm having more fun flying nap-of-the-earth through lag-free sims trying to avoid hitting anything than using P2P.

And I'm hoping LL limits P2P to LPs, because P2P to any random "oh I dodn't know I had to set an LP" location is going to be insane.

I could code up a HUD for that in 5 minutes. Someone will do it with fancy graphics and have it for sale by release date once it's implemented in the preview grid.

I have the same objection to shiny. It doesn't stop people using it EVERYWHERE.

wonder how much overhead the water takes compared to shiny

Shiny is a staple like sugar or flour, Sir.

Yay! I FINALLY took the oft-repeated advice of installing the Omega drivers for my 9600 card, and suddenly I can now see the rippling water!

For those of you running an ATI card, I'd suggest trying them...

http://www.omegadrivers.net

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Then I demand Diet Shiny.