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Giant Prims - suggestion
Ralph Doctorow
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Join date: 16 Oct 2005
Posts: 560
11-28-2006 19:57
From what Phillip said, collision detection is the big problem with giant prims, so how about this?

Allow > 10M prims, but like flexi-prims, force them to be phantom, maybe just render them just on the client.

The purpose of having these would be to act as a second texture layer on objects which is out of phase with the main texture layer so surfaces wouldn't look so uniform. You can do this now, but it takes a lot of prims to cover larger surfaces, so most people don't bother, leaving SL looking completely clean and uniform. Also butting these generally mostly transparent layers together has some visual problems.
Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
12-03-2006 15:18
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Allan Saltwater
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Join date: 20 Oct 2006
Posts: 36
12-03-2006 16:41
From: Ralph Doctorow
From what Phillip said, collision detection is the big problem with giant prims, so how about this?

Allow > 10M prims, but like flexi-prims, force them to be phantom, maybe just render them just on the client.

The purpose of having these would be to act as a second texture layer on objects which is out of phase with the main texture layer so surfaces wouldn't look so uniform. You can do this now, but it takes a lot of prims to cover larger surfaces, so most people don't bother, leaving SL looking completely clean and uniform. Also butting these generally mostly transparent layers together has some visual problems.


Why not go one stage further and permit tiling of a (possibly "smallish";) texture over a large area (effectively "carpeting" the area). The advantage with tiling like this is it reduces tha amount of data sent to the client saving bandwidth.