Rez-in what I'm looking at?

Time after time I go to a new place, a store or something with signs etc, and in order to see a particular feature I have to wait & wait & wait while all the many details of the whole environment rez-in.

It would be wonderful if 2L could be much smarter about what to resolve first, in particular, to resolve the thing that my avvie is facing -- or touching -- or focussing on with zoom-in-click.

Instead of rezzing all the scenery bits in more-or-less random order in a circle with x meters radius around the AV -- or so it appears -- which takes a LONG time in a busy environment like a store -- prioritize the resolving based on AV behavior, in particular, direction of gaze, especially if that direction is emphasized by the mouse in touching or looking.

A second possibility would be to give object-makers a simple FG/BG option on any object, FG meaning "this is foreground, it tells the viewer something useful" and the default BG rank meaning "this is scenery." FG would get priority -- so your vending machines could resolve in detail before your trees, your water, your walls, etc.

Ah yes, medlar, I share your feelings on better optimization in the SL client for viewing things like this. I believe it's being worked on, as per a few emails I sent awhile back as well as suggestions of my own that I made to this Forum too.

In the meantime, did you know that hovering your cursor over an area does give it priority loading? Test a few times with signs in front of you and see.

Rezzing-in behavior seems to have changed from earlier versions of 1.5.x .

i just found that out by accident like 2 days ago. that needs to be better known for sure.

YES IT DOES. 'Twas Kex Godel who first told me.

Wow, I always did that in the hope that it would work, but I was never really sure. Kind of felt like tapping on the screen to try to get something to happen.

neko

I always just right-click the objects and then click away, but if hovering does it too then thank you for the time-saving tip! ^_^

LOL Neko, I KNEW I wasn't crazy and all that impatient mouse-wiggling was actually DOING something

This is how it works already.
If you zoom in on an object, the texture will load faster.

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No reply from the higher-ups.

Maybe they are doing something in the upcoming 1.6 patch? It does contain a graphics engine change, after all.