Did I just set a new resident altitude record?

Hey everyone

How high can you go in SL? I thought it was only 4096m but I just managed to reach over 200000m! A pointless waste of time I know but was bored. LL obviously doesn't contemplate residents going so high up as the view and sky color stay exactly the same.
Left a small weight on the page up key on my computer for an hour. First SL woman in space - lol!

That's high but not even close to a record. =)

One fellow in this thread claims to have hit 7.2 million meters.

/120/5d/44817/1.html

Wow! That would mean leaving the computer going for a couple of days at my rate =)

Honestly you can go as high as you want in no time by creating a SLurl and changing the hieght co-ord to what you desire

Under the old Havoc1 engine you could actually orbit avatars to over 2,000,000,000 meters pretty quickly, or send them down -2,000,000,000m.

My altitude record is over two billion meters. Beatfox Xevious did me one better when I announced it and came up with a script that shot him over a trillion meters up in a fraction of a second... at which point I acknowledged his mastery and bowed out of the competition.

Sheesh, and I thought going up to 4km and parachuting down was fun.. you guys are wild

I want to go up into space and fly to other planets

Crazy! That is about six times the distance to our moon. Ok, I still have a long way to go

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Limits#Building?
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Limits#Building

At 2 Gig binary meters the altitude counter rolls over to negative, that's a hard limit in the software. At much lower altitudes graphics can go wonky, probably due to rounding errors.

Yep, I hit over a million meters first time I got orbited. It sucked, pretty much.

Time to set a skybox at 1 Gig. Why? Just because I can. LOL

As they say in spy shows, "this is a non-operative statement". SL uses floating point numbers for altitude, and 2^23-1 is not a limit for floating point numbers. I know I was over 2^23-1 meters because my altimeter script used integers to display the height, and the floating-integer rounding operation truncated (not wrapped) the altitude to 2^23-1. Beatfox's altimiter just displayed floats, and reported his true altitude more than 500 times higher than that.

High as a kite again.

I hope someone's OFFICE computer wasnt the launch pad.

I was referring to the altitude counter on the top of the screen, not what might be shown with a gadget, it does roll over to negative, as the photo I linked to shows.
I entered a SLurl with 10^15 as the Z value (0.1 light year, if anyone cares).

In practice, there is not much use going above one million meters other than just playing around. There is nothing to see up there, and even your avatar starts to get messed up.

Irrelevant, just a UI bug. That wasn't even there when Beatfox and I were doing our mad science: all you could see was X and Y. We later figured you could get the correct info out of the UI using the camera position overlay in the Client (now the Advanced) menu.

In practice there's no point in going above 4096 meters, other than messing about, and seeing just how high you can get is a perfectly legitimate kind of messing about.

Over in /327/01/338909/1.html , there are people who want to get seriously high.

Yeah but that's only allowed in the Netherlands.


Is the 4096 just one of those computer things, like how everything is some division of 4/16/256?

Or is it just somebody's idea of a good number.

4096 is a power of two, yes.

It makes some sense for the horizontal dimension of a region to be 256m, since the texture map for the ground will then fit in graphics memory efficiently. Don't see why altitude should be a power of 2 value other than programmers are used to thinking in those units.

Curiosity numbers: The buildable volume of a region works out to 256 mega-cubic meters. You can fit 268,435 ten meter cubes in that volume (the largest default object size), which means about 1/18th of the available volume could be filled with plywood cubes.

It's convenient for all kinds of things if you use powers of two, such as packing a coordinate into an integer for storage or transmission. Using powers of two is planning for success.