Big lake in second life

Hmm, this puzzled me until this morning. In Safari on a Mac, I see three concentric squares, the inner of which is solid blue with a white question mark overlaid. If I do CTRL-click, it opens the link/image.

Actually, as we're talking about rez areas, especially personally owned ones such as Rime's, what happens if someone tries to rez an object with a large numbers of prims?

I have an airship, approx. 60m long, with over 300 prims. If I were to try rezzing something like that, wouldn't it exceed the area prim limit?

What happens then? Does Rime, or whomever, get told off by Linden?

If the parcel has sufficient free prims it will rez fine. You'll just need to hop aboard and start flying before the 10 minute (or whatever parcel has set) auto-return expires.

If there are not enough free prims you'll get a message to that effect.

The rez zone I created is not huge but as long as the root prim of the airship was on it I believe it will rez (or maybe not) However, a sim crossing in a 300 prim vehicle might prove altogether an interesting experience.

If you head out to open water from my dock (go due West) you hit a region edge fairly soon so best to head out slowly and watch the co-ordinates. Once you cross into the next region you have an entire Linden Water region to play in.

Rime

Well that's good to know. I'd hate to get anyone in trouble because I made a mistake.



I have visions of half the craft being left behind!

The thing simply wouldn't rez.
It would be better to check the available prims before trying to rez.

Look at the 'Objects' tab in About Land - which you get either by right-clicking the ground or by the often easier option of clicking the parcel name up in the title bar of the viewer window.

The first line ends with the number of prims available for rezzing.
Our island in the middle of Miru sim has over 2600 prims available, so your airship wouldn't have any probs


Those rez zones in the NE corners of Blake Sea sims generally have even more prims available.


If you do use other people's parcels for rezzing, it's polite to move out as soon as possible.

My apologies if this is derailing, but any suggestions for underwater worlds where it would be fun to drive a submarine? I would need to rez it, but it's low prim, only 29.

This thing is so beautiful that I can't resist it, but I can't just let it sit in my inventory.
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Another useful thing to know. Thank you.

The Blake Sea sims and the water around Nautilus City to the West of the Blake sea have reefs / submerged ruins/ caves / wrecks / free-swimming fish / etc.

I can't remember sim names off the top of my head.
I good technique is to get to a water sim and check look at minimap.
You'll see a number of black rectangles that represent objects. If thinly/evenly spread, these are probably just seaweeds.
If you see a cluster or some biggies, these generally represent some underwater builds of various types.

I second that. The sea bed isn't just a blank canvas. It's extremely attractive, with all kinds of fish, plant life and at least one "hidden" temple off one of the islands. I can give you the exact location for that if you want it.

You might also try here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Betacourt/156/186/2

That looks like a sweet little craft! Darn it! I might just have to have one

Underwater exploration is a lot of fun. The self limiting sight distances seem natural and moving slowly underwater is the norm as is floating in waterspace as opposed to air space.

The more conscientious water parcel builders have some wonderful undersea builds and leave the surface free of clutter. It irks me no end to see huge areas of water covered in fake land or boring flat platforms.

In my undersea explorations I have found all sorts of oddities and wildlife but the undersea dance club was a fun find

Rime

It is cool, isn't it? It's described as a "physical vehicle". Last night I was toying with getting a boat, and came across some which were "non-physical". What's the difference? Aren't all objects in SL "physical".



Is this a building on the sea bed, or an open area?

Da Vinci?

There is a lot of open sea in front of the Forum Cartel Hangout, too. Nothing there, but nice expanses of blue.

All objects that can move on their own are physical, most verhicels are physical as wel so they can use the build in verhicle engine but physical objects are limited to 31 prims, the driver and pasangers count as a prim to so most verhicles are limited to 29 prims. to make bigger verhicles creaters have to script their own verhicle engine, these are called non physical and have less realistic interaction with ground and other objects.

I have to add: Looking at the sellers other items is very, very dangerous. I did that after I posted on top of this page, and now I have not one, but half a dozen vehicles I want to buy! Not to mention the builds....

....no, I am NOT the seller's alt. I wish!

Oh I see. Thank you. So my 300+ prim airship is definitely a non-physical vehicle!

Not necessarily (although it could be). A common trick with some vehicle is to provide an attachment that you wear which looks like the vehicle. You rez a "vehicle" that is physical, low prim, and typically has a poseball to sit on, then you sit on the poseball and wear the attachment. My sailboat works like this.

I haven't come across one of those yet. The airship isn't like that.

Thanks for all the great suggestions of rez spots. I wish that all the seas could be connected and navigable. I also wondered if there's a map of (grid-wide) navigable waterways. It's really hard from the world map to see how/if the ocean areas connect.

(Would rather sail than TP)

Here's a map of the Blake Sea fyi:

I'd suggest flying it out of Hau Koda (rez zone behind the hangar) and taking it over the Gulf of Lauren. There's a lot less boat traffic out there than in the Blake Sea.

Last time I tried, the waters accessible from the Forum Hangout's dock in Allana were surprisingly navigable.

Blake Sea is unparalled for sheer expanse of sailable water/air, and for class boat racing. For sightseeing, I like to sail around Caledon -- some rough sim crossings but always something neat to look at, and sometimes folks around to chat with. You can go up through lovely Winterfell now as well.

And, again for sightseeing, I occasionally just take the swan boats from RiverWalk upstream, to savor the sheer density of cool oldbieness.

Theres a smaller lake in our sim, Grote, where the person who owns the lake land made it public for all. And we have a small dock you can rez at if you wish.

I've got a free rez zone at the southern edge of Vyzmanavin. (The only problem with that one is that the sim name is easy to misspell and thus people can't find the zone. But you can sail out into about a dozen water sims, so it's a nice one.)

Use search and look for Yacht Clubs: Nantucket, Starboards, Triumphal, Mowry Bay, etc. All the bigs and any decent yacht club on any continent will have a rez area for you to put down your boat.

One thing that may not be obvious is that the oceans are perhaps the least fun places for underwater vehicles because they're limited to 20m depth. A lot of "freshwater" lakes are much deeper, and give more diving and surfacing room for subs.

(It's also wise for scripters to test their new vehicles to make sure they're not accidentally depending on llWater() being 20.0, nor on less than 20m between surface and bottom.)

It's by no means the largest nor deepest, but the North Reservoir on Zindra is one such deep lake; there's a tiny corner of my Laffoon shop parcel on that lake; no dock or anything but rezzing is allowed and there are tons of prims available (but with one minute autoreturn, so board quickly).