Stop The Resize Scripts!!!

Hmm
If you think they are laggy you simply remove the script from your object and POOF, gone lag..

Come on folks
for every problem there is a simple solution.

Hmm
If you think they are laggy you simply remove the script from your object and POOF, gone lag..

Come on folks
for every problem there is a simple solution.

Hmm
If you think they are laggy you simply remove the script from your object and POOF, gone lag..

Come on folks
for every problem there is a simple solution.

(No General topic but this is starting to annoy me now.)

This is a disease spreading throughout content. It does not make it easier to size things and it does not stop things being copied but this isn't my complaint.

IT'S THE DAMN SCRIPTS AND THE LAG!

I've just bought a skirt that a) I don't like the fit of, can't sensibly modify to fit because repeatedly clicking the item, then "this prim", then +/- whatever is just insane but b) 246 prims with resize scripts!

So as a test, I sat on an object and pulled up the estate tools and this skirt has scripts that consume 0.5ms. Doesn't sound much but when I add in Damselfly hair, one of the other main culprits of the same scripts, that's another 0.5ms.

Yes the instructions say take them out when done but then I also have a hat which is resize scripted, but no copy. So I don't wish to take them out because then I can't change the hat ever again in future.

Now if anyone thinks these numbers are insignificant, I did some tests a few weeks ago and a "typically scripted avatar" with AO and a couple of other things was between 0.2 to 0.3ms. Add in Damselfly hair, some jewellery with channel 0 bling on/off listeners and I was easily over 1.2ms and have observed a couple at a dance place at nearly 5ms for just those two with scripted shoulder pets and all their other junk.

Take a look at the sim statistics in shift ctrl 1, Time (ms), Spare time and think again how this junk affects a sim with 0ms available.

Best bit is, these people come to a place and then bitch about lag.

*sighs

that script design is very old and outdated. the old reason to add scripts to every prim was because you can't read individual prim data from a cript in another prim... this is still true. HOWEVER, you can shut them all off via script AND use remote load in a server prim to reload all of them in a few seconds.

The best solution is for creators to provide copiable items whenever the resize scripts are used, and this is my practise. Then for you, the customer, to keep an unaltered master. Resize the copy to fit your size, then simply use the "delete" option in the menu. Voila---no more scripty badness.

And if you change your shape/size, whip out a new one and go again.

The best solution is for creators to provide copiable items whenever the resize scripts are used, and this is my practise. Then for you, the customer, to keep an unaltered master. Resize the copy to fit your size, then simply use the "delete" option in the menu. Voila---no more scripty badness.

And if you change your shape/size, whip out a new one and go again.

Argent--I feel your pain. It's no great joy however you do it if you want to change your shape often.

Nah, what people actually do is go buy mod hair/attachments from someone else instead. Seems some creators are locked into thinking they can get away with this because their products are just too good/important/whatever not to buy. They are wrong and when scripting limits hit the grid they're going to see exactly how wrong they were.

I hold no love for resize scripts. But LL is (surprise, surprise) once again fixing the wrong problem. The CAUSE of those laggy resizer scripts is IP theft. Strengthen IP protection and most builders will gladly get rid of those awkward scripts.

That's what LL should be doing, not crippling everyone's abilities.

I hold no love for resize scripts. But LL is (surprise, surprise) once again fixing the wrong problem. The CAUSE of those laggy resizer scripts is IP theft. Strengthen IP protection and most builders will gladly get rid of those awkward scripts.

If Linden Labs strengthened the already annoying DRM in Second Life to the point where it was actually effective, they'd have to break SL so badly I'd have to find somewhere else to nibble toes.

You're the software ferret, not me, so I can't argue. But it seems to this layperson that there must be SOMETHING that can be done. Go, code boffin! Gather up your clan and be Clever!

When we first went to talk to these record companies -- about eighteen months ago -- we said, "None of this technology that you're talking about's gonna work. We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content.

Then let's stop the casual thieves, at least.

They greatly outnumber the dedicated pros, anyway.

Then let's stop the casual thieves, at least.

They greatly outnumber the dedicated pros, anyway.

Argent...what if they made all scripts, animations, and textures absolutely no copy/no trans in world? And then have the sellers of these items do so only out-world, on third party websites?

Would it really break SL that badly? After all, these things are mostly manufactured out-world anyway (except you can script on a notecard, if you want).

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content ... What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet — and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock — open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it — puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.