new surprise at 500m?

Just started today, right at 500m there seems to be a large texture simulating the curve of the earth with some farm land iamge on it.. but its not a prim? When I hit about 700m I see the ocean and sims below again.. but around 500-700m I just see this strange field of dreams..


I need to see some other isles and see if its something new my estate owner did?


pics

http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/482m.jpg
http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/501m.jpg
http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/939m.jpg

I want to see, what sim is this?

Are you sure it's not a nasty mega prim, is anyone reporting floating in that sim when they're not sat down?

Congratulations. You found Second Life Heaven.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ecstasy/63/58/24


Fly up to see what I'm talking aboot.

edit** crap... its gone! but if it was a mega prim shouldnt I be able to click to edit/see its owner?


edit** shoot, its back! set to daylight and it took a minute to show up

Ecstasy is Steve's rentals, right? You may want to contact him and ask him to check it.

I am gonna check it out. This sounds cool.

photo from above and below the strange thingy

http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/482m.jpg


http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/501m.jpg

usually when you hit a certain height (is it your draw distance or a set height?) all you see when you look down is ocean. Could they have replaced that with something?

No I can still see the ocean, if I am underneath this phantom field.. and the sims below.. but once I pass 500m, until I hit about 700m, I see this thing.. my draw is at 200m

turned draw distance to 500m, and at 939m high I see most of the thing, with the ocean below..

http://f1nd.org/dr/pie/939m.jpg


crazy, I never knew space was at 1000m!! I gotta move my home higher now!

it's a huge prim.. keep flying up, you may find another one that shows continents... I've seen these in use on some private sims.. interesting effect

I'm not in world to see it in person, but it looks positively smashing from the pictures the OP put up. That picture of him floating over the farmland is way cool.

I thought it was maybe an island impostor like the way they have avatar impostors.

That is a trip! I wonder what it is?

Could be, but when you cross sim boarders it just vanishes. Wouldn't you still be able to see it if it were a prim? Also no way to select it either.

Pretty cool though.

EDIT: NVM. Yep, it is a prim called infinite floor. I finally got a spot to edit.

wouldn't I still be able to click to see properties, etc?

Do you have "Select only my objects" checked? If not, try flying closer to it and trying to click it - if you haven't disabled limits on select distance, it might be too far to click on.

If neither of those works, I'm stumped. But megaprims are weird and ill-behaved.

I was able to find the creator and owner and the fact it is only taking up one prim. Steve may have it removed if he finds it. hehe.

It was hard for me to find a spot to click edit on.

You'd need to be near the center of the megaprim to do that. And it's definitely a megaprim. Nice use of it, in fact.

I've built an improved starfield if anyone wants it. Inner dimensions are 100 wide, outer are 256. Spawn it at 700m and make it physical, hours of fun. IM me in-game.

thanks, I found the center.. it spans 3 sims! eeesh

Nice texturing, though it would have to be a lot bigger to hide the SL horizon

Interesting. Servers where Havok 4 has been rolled out hard cap prims at 256 meters in any direction. Spawn a 1024 prim and it'll come out as a 256.

Speaking of megaprims, having read the discussion on Havok 4 now it seems pretty clear megaprims only cause lag when they're marked as physical, which is just a silly thing to mark them with to begin with. One can only hope the whining about imaginary megaprim lag stays alive long enough for the beta to go final and shut it up in one fell swoop.

theres many of those up the air, but not many that big.

Had to be nosey and take a look ... looks fantastic.

To find the properties of a Mega prim you have to try to find where it originated. I've seen this a couple times and after searching around it, was able to find the place to edit and return it.