So yesterday I'm walking around my riverboat and OMG a prim is out of place....now this is like a bugger hanging out of my nose (which would never happen btw because I'm always checking my face in the mirror...actually have one at my desk... anyway getting sidetracked) because anyone who knows me could come by and go, "OMG look, she can't even line up prims pffft..." so I have to look out for my rep...
Anyway, I'm checking this prim and it's 5x10x10 (hxwxd) and all the prims around it are the same. It's set at say 11.5 m up height, I check all the prims around it and they are all set the same, I check the width, depth and it is exactly 10m from the prims to the side....
So wtf! There is no logical reason why this prim has a gap!! I then proceed to raise it about 6 clicks and walla it looks great but it is bugging me now cause I know it's not supposed to look right! It's like having the wrong color underwear on or socks and you just know people can't see it but OMG what if I get hit by a car and they see that my underwear is mismatched while I'm in the emergency room and I'm unconscience so I can't explain that it's wash day and...getting sidetracked again..
So why is this prim not perfectly align? It makes absolutely no sense!
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Cunundrum Alcott
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04-09-2008 13:25
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Cristalle Karami
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04-09-2008 13:28
It happens - no one knows why. Maybe rotation is off a little. Or maybe your video card just doesn't want to play. Or ... it's just a "feature."
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Har Fairweather
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04-09-2008 13:29
If it looks right, don't mess with it. Same thing with underwear...
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Yosef Okelly
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04-09-2008 13:33
Just grasping at straws but are there any path or profile cuts? The center of the prim stays the same even if half of it is cut away. But you would know that already ... so not much help.
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Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
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04-09-2008 13:34
I once accidentally destroyed someone's houseboat because I was trying to click on something and I ended up dragging and moving a big segment of it. It was set to no-modify, but the segment of it I moved was a separate object that seemed to have the "allow anyone to move" box ticked.
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Har Fairweather
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04-09-2008 13:34
More seriously, have you checked ALL the available coordinates under Edit>Object and under Edit>Texture? One or more of those might be out of alignment and causing the odd appearance.
Doesn't sound like the dreaded Prim Drift, the one millimeter or so displacement that sometimes occurs randomly because of an incompatibility in the ways the grid calculates prim locations and resulting rounding errors. |
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Cunundrum Alcott
A Sardonic Pessimist
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04-09-2008 14:05
Doesn't sound like the dreaded Prim Drift, the one millimeter or so displacement that sometimes occurs randomly because of an incompatibility in the ways the grid calculates prim locations and resulting rounding errors. Oh thats comforting, so the longer my ship sits the more I could be adjusting prims to look right? _____________________
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Quaintly Tuqiri
Still learning
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04-09-2008 17:53
Cunundrum - did you ask somebody else to come over and tell you if they were seeing what you were seeing? That would tell you whether it was only displaying that way on your viewer or whether others were seeing it too. Like how sometimes I think I look normal but others tell me I'm ruthed.
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
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04-09-2008 18:11
So yesterday I'm walking around my riverboat and OMG a prim is out of place....now this is like a bugger hanging out of my nose (which would never happen btw because I'm always checking my face in the mirror...actually have one at my desk... anyway getting sidetracked) because anyone who knows me could come by and go, "OMG look, she can't even line up prims pffft..." so I have to look out for my rep... Anyway, I'm checking this prim and it's 5x10x10 (hxwxd) and all the prims around it are the same. It's set at say 11.5 m up height, I check all the prims around it and they are all set the same, I check the width, depth and it is exactly 10m from the prims to the side.... So wtf! There is no logical reason why this prim has a gap!! I then proceed to raise it about 6 clicks and walla it looks great but it is bugging me now cause I know it's not supposed to look right! It's like having the wrong color underwear on or socks and you just know people can't see it but OMG what if I get hit by a car and they see that my underwear is mismatched while I'm in the emergency room and I'm unconscience so I can't explain that it's wash day and...getting sidetracked again.. So why is this prim not perfectly align? It makes absolutely no sense! Right. I believe I know exactly what you mean. I have had prims that all of a sudden have to have a number put in that makes no logical sense. With that number, they should be OFF kilter. And yeah, like you, I know nobody but me is going to know that that prim is in the right place with the WRONG NUMBERS. When this has happened, I've gotten rid of the prim and put in a new one. Even though it wouldn't bother others, it bothers the heck out of me. I think sometimes prims just get internally corrupted somehow. I think of them as little rogue prims that have developed minds of their own, and think they know what's best. But they do not know what's best for them! So out they go. coco Edit: And that is after checking - and REchecking - all the coordinates. Fortunately, this sort of apparent corruption is a rather rare event. _____________________
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Weston Graves
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04-09-2008 19:17
Something like this happened to me when I accidentally set my object detail lower than when I built my skybox. Some prims that had been rotated during building looked like there was a gap even though the numbers should be right. There were either gaps from far a way that disappeared up close or vice versa. Boosting my object detail back up seemed to fix everything.
Now with the new improved viewer some of us are defaulted to a lower detail. Could something like that be happening? I'd love to see your riverboat. I once had to do a couple of illustrations using a riverboat and it was a bear to draw. I can't imagine building one. Is it a public place? |
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Kornscope Komachi
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04-09-2008 19:28
I've noticed this too lately. Bugs me as well, I want my joins perfect but perfection is only something we can aim for.
Up the MAX PRIM SIZE to 16 or 32 or 100m Ha! No not 100. Less prims less joins less joining problems. Less worry lines. |