"Headroom" for prim allowance

I am putting together a club and am wondering what the perils are of maxing out the parcel prim allowance, and if there are some, what kind of headroom I should be considering. Thanks.

The only peril I know of is you'll run out of prims and won't be able to rezz anything while you have no prims available. Other than that - go ahead, knock yourself out.

If you intend to have live musicians, some of them may need over 100 prims for setting up their stuff. And if you want to add things like contest boards or noticeboards, that makes a difference too.

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Some of the more advanced multipose furniture need to rezz pose balls on demand e.g. they might rezz no pose balls when not in use then one or two pose balls depending on how many people are using the furniture.

These will, of course, stop working if the parcel is too full for them to rezz the require pose balls.

There are probably other scripted items where it is useful to keep a few prims spare for them to work (e.g. I have a piano which can optionally rez sheet music when you open the lid).

Matthew

If you're talking about the rezz balls for dancing that come out only on command all I can say is they suck terribly. While it seems to be a great idea it has way too many kinks at the moment. And I've seen the same problems in different places which have different balls. While you're dancing someone calls the balls or changes their dance, now your dance whatever it may be is also changed as well as a few other annoying problems.

Really? Maybe I should "productize" my version of this after all. I'd decided to reserve it for just personal and friends' use after I discovered that there were already products on the market that do something like what I'd made. At least mine doesn't have this weird dance-changing problem, and it uses temp-rezzed poseballs, so it's unlikely to hit a parcel prim limit. But after some grid update it developed a sync glitch that interacts with multi-part animation sequences that I haven't bothered to track down yet.

But I'm guessing the post was actually about MLP-like furniture (some use the straight MLP scripts, some are like devPose or SexGen or whatever) that rez seating poseballs. I've never really understood why these aren't temp-rezzed: if you're not gonna sit on them in a minute, probably they should just disappear anyway. But they don't work that way, so if you're using those kind of devices, yeah, some prims would have to be free for those poseballs.

We use the INTAN couples dance ball, and have no problems. The machine will rez up to 15 sets of couples balls, and each set can be controlled by the dancers to individually select their dance from the menu.

This product does what it claims. You can rez a ballset or access the menu by touching the main dance machine, or an auxiliary dance machine that can be located *anywhere in the sim*, or from a HUD that is available from a dispenser gadget.

The only drawbacks:

1. It's a pretty expensive product.

2. Configuration is tricky. The maker offers a service for an additional fee to pre-load your dances and configure the machine for you. The way it works is, you tell her you want to buy the machine. You send her your couples dance balls in a folder. She rips out the animations, puts them in the Intan machine, configures it, sends you back the completed product and your (now empty) dance balls, and sends you a bill.

3. The balls rezzed by the machine seem to want to stop and re-sync a little more often than the original poseball set.

Really? Do you know where this was happening because I have never had a problem with them. Not even in a full sim with 90+ people jammed into the club.

Are those pose ball rezzing devices using temp prims? As long as the person is sitting on them it won't dissapear right?

Right. If an avatar is sitting on it, it stays. As soon as you stand up, *poof* and it's gone.

We also use INTAN and have had no issues with them, except for when I turned scripting off by accident one day :X