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How high can you go?
Galdor Halster
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12-02-2009 10:21
Hi

Till a few days ago I thought that 1000 would be the highest Z value you could go, but then I got teleported into a skybox at around 1700 height... and now I'm wondering how high is the highest you can go?
And are there any disadvantages to going above a certain height?

Thanks
Pete Olihenge
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12-02-2009 10:23
Highest you can do is 4096m.
Galdor Halster
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12-02-2009 10:25
Ah that was quick, thanks alot :)
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12-02-2009 10:30
From: Galdor Halster
How high can you go?

That would depend on what exactly your avatar has been smoking, wouldn't it? :D
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Pete Olihenge
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12-02-2009 10:33
(You can take your avatar MUCH higher than that - limited, I think, only by the size of the floating point numbers that the SL software can handle. Strange things start to happen to your avatar at about 1,000,000m.)
Rolig Loon
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12-02-2009 11:14
From: Pete Olihenge
(You can take your avatar MUCH higher than that - limited, I think, only by the size of the floating point numbers that the SL software can handle. Strange things start to happen to your avatar at about 1,000,000m.)

Somewhere in the archives of this forum or maybe the Scripting Tips forum there's a lovely narrative report by someone who did an experiment to find out how high he could fly. As I recall, he started flying straight up and kept going for a couple of RL days before he finally disambiguated completely. Unfortunately I do not remember how high he went (or any other details for that matter) but if you go digging patiently you'll find the post. It's no more than a year old.
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Galdor Halster
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12-02-2009 13:11
Oh I'm sorry if i wasn't exactly clear what I meant: I meant, what's the highest you can place a prim without it causing all kinds of weird things (scripts not working right anymore or something)?
Pete Olihenge
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12-02-2009 14:34
No problem at all: we got your meaning. I just mentioned the high altitude flying as a vaguely interesting aside, and in case I had misunderstood your question.
Loco Mycron
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12-02-2009 15:00
An interesting aside..with a combination of Raise Terrain and Terrain Baking (a Region/ Estate tool) I was able to gradually drag the terrain mesh up to 10,000 meters in 100m increments. ... SL Everest anyone?. Sadly avatars cannot stand on terrain mesh at anywhere near that height, even close to 1000 meters high your avatar will continually bounce up and down off the terrain surface.
Pete Olihenge
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12-02-2009 15:53
Have you kept this? I think I'd've liked to have seen it.
Loco Mycron
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12-02-2009 16:21
From: Pete Olihenge
Have you kept this? I think I'd've liked to have seen it.


Hi Pete - no, unfortunately I didn't keep the giant mountain. The next time I have an empty sim I will recreate it and send you a message. I tried to save the raw file but the data was cut off above 256 meters in Photoshop and Backhoe (not surprising).

To use this method over a grouping of 4 or so homestead sims would be the ideal foundation for something this size. I only used a single unanchored region which did not lend itself to being able to stand back / or camera back far enough to to take a meaningful screenshot.

Next time I will try to push it beyond 10,000 meters and then TP to nearby region to see if it is visible. Occasionally when I TP to a nearby region (even across void ocean) I can see the distant terrain shape of the sim I have just TP'd from.
Pete Olihenge
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12-02-2009 17:09
It sounds like a fair bit of work for something almost entirely pointless, but that's what SL is for I guess :)

The photography issues are intriguing; my first thought was of mountain tops rising above the clouds. But with SL clouds anchored at 200m, and draw distances limited, I can't offhand think of how to best record such a phenomeneon.