I saw a testing box in the test grounds, but I never looked at how it was done. You sat in the box, which as transparent, and when inside the box, you could only see the ground. All other objects disappeared.
How do we get this object occlusion to work? I've attempted various types of transparency, solids, etc, but I haven't figured out how to make it work yet.
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Androclese Antonelli
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05-25-2006 15:37
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Draco18s Majestic
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05-25-2006 15:49
Did you try the ... whatever it is that people use to hide avatar limbs in non-standard avatar attachments? It makes the prim invisible, as well as certin alpha layers. It is entirely possible that the object-object occlusion still sees this object as hiding others.
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Androclese Antonelli
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05-25-2006 15:52
Did you try the ... whatever it is that people use to hide avatar limbs in non-standard avatar attachments? It makes the prim invisible, as well as certin alpha layers. It is entirely possible that the object-object occlusion still sees this object as hiding others. If I had any idea what was, I would give it a try. _____________________
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Sator Canetti
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05-25-2006 16:39
Occlusion Culling: occlusion culling detects hidden objects and prevents them from being rendered.
How this is implimented, in SL, as I know, is that objects you can't see, because something is blocking them, aren't rendered by the client, at a limit of about 10m. Basically, there's a lot of stuff over at point x, you're about 30m away, you place a block between you and the stuff at point x, say, halfway, large enough that you can't see the stuff at point x. With occlusion culling, the client no longer renders the stuff at point x, until you can see it, and therefore is not using graphics processing power to render things you can't see. This is why the largest fps improvement is found when one is indoors without windows. All that stuff outside isn't being shown. _____________________
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Androclese Antonelli
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05-25-2006 17:49
Occlusion Culling: occlusion culling detects hidden objects and prevents them from being rendered. How this is implimented, in SL, as I know, is that objects you can't see, because something is blocking them, aren't rendered by the client, at a limit of about 10m. Basically, there's a lot of stuff over at point x, you're about 30m away, you place a block between you and the stuff at point x, say, halfway, large enough that you can't see the stuff at point x. With occlusion culling, the client no longer renders the stuff at point x, until you can see it, and therefore is not using graphics processing power to render things you can't see. This is why the largest fps improvement is found when one is indoors without windows. All that stuff outside isn't being shown. Yeah, that part I got, it's listed in every post about why it works, I just cannot find a way to replicate the way it worked in that test cube in the test realm. That invisi-prim thing sounds like the solution, but I don't know how to do that and search is not coming back with good results. I must be searching for the wrong keywords. _____________________
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ed44 Gupte
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Edit/Texture/Transparency
05-26-2006 20:33
Check out the texture tab/transparency number. 0= visible, 1= totally invisible. Then try different values on different sides of a cube, and look through the cube in different directions. You may be surprised!
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Shack Dougall
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05-26-2006 23:15
Did you try the ... whatever it is that people use to hide avatar limbs in non-standard avatar attachments? It makes the prim invisible, as well as certin alpha layers. It is entirely possible that the object-object occlusion still sees this object as hiding others. I first became aware of this trick here. You can probably check Beatfox Xevious' in world profile for a location where you can get one. _____________________
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Draco18s Majestic
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05-27-2006 10:09
I first became aware of this trick here. You can probably check Beatfox Xevious' in world profile for a location where you can get one. Yes, that script. I yoinked a copy out of one of my avs (not that I've needed to use it) and what I was refering to in my above post. |