Not to hijack another thread, but i have some questions

It's about attachments, blings, prims, teleporting and whatever else related to the questions. I'm assuming the following, so please correct me if i'm wrong about descriptions:

Attachments = anything that adheres to a character's body (including eyes and all the parts to make up the look of hair or shoes)

Blings = a particle effect used to make items/attachments sparkle?

Prims = a geometric shape used towards making a item in the game world (like a sock might use 2 (prims) geometric shapes to make up a attachment)?

Rez = restoration of a full character image during a loading process?

These are questions are what i have after reading a thread about attachments relating to teleportation. if i'm correct with the assumptions, i would be wearing over 20 attachments, with far more Prims involved and no items with Blings. So would wearing less showy/glamourous attachments reduce the problems associated with teleporting?

So far, i haven't had any problems getting around except for the lag, which causes part of my hair to reappear after a few seconds even when i'm flying.

The short answer is yes. Having a lot of attachments on can slow down teleportation and sometimes make it completely impossible.

Whether or not wearing scripted prims makes it even worse than just wearing non scripted prims... I'm not sure.


Very ornate hair made with lots of cut toris has been rumoured to lag sims.

Spot on, Sylfie, and welcome to SL. To clarify on the attachments, eyes aren't considered attachments, they are part of what makes the AV (body shape, hair, skin). Unless, there are prims attached to the eyes.

Attachments are objects (anything that has a little yellow box icon beside it in your inventory) you must right-click and choose "Wear" to put on. Hair may or may not be an attachment. There is such a thing as non-prim hair, I hear.



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I've had this explained to me by different people, but essentially, yes. "Resolve/d" (as in, how a domain name resolves to an IP of a target server) is how I had it explained to me first. Rez, though, I think has just become a word in its own right - strictly within SL-ese. You can "rez" a prim (meaning to create one), your hair may not have "rezzed" (meaning it's not completely viewable), you can "rez" a house you bought from someone (meaning just to drag it to the ground).

Pretty flexible word.

For "rez", think "materialize".

I guess that the player made hairpieces would be considered as a attachment involving prims but at a much less Prim count than default ones. This makes me wonder now outside of the basic blank default humanoid shape, the basic default hair, clothes that a newbie begins with are all attachments really, since they are removable items.

i think eyes are considered textures since they are not removable from the actual AV (avatar), therefore not considered as a attachment in a Prim descriptive sense, similiar to skin textures?

Body shape could be debated that it is a series of default Prims which doesn't affect teleportation, that kind analogy of makes you go hmmmm?

Actually, I'd like to add my own question to this.

Are clothes attachments? I mean not prim skirts, but just say a pair of jeans and a sweater? Shoes are, they're made of prims. I've always been confused on this, so ty Sylfie for starting this thread that reminds me I have been wanting to ask.

and welcome to SL

kat

No. Not attachments.

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A common misconception is that your clothing somehow effects loading times. I've heard people say "I only wear a shirt and some pants, so I don't lag people" and stuff like that. It's not true. All your clothing is combined into a single 'baked' texture, so it doesn't matter what your wearing. It all takes the same amount of data.

None of your starting things like hair are "attachments" either, by the way. Hair can be 'removed' in the sense that it can be changed for other hair, but you always have hair (Even if your bald, you still technicly have hair, its just tiny, inside your skull). Think of it like system settings on a computer. "stock" hair, eyes, skin, clothing, etc are like preferences on a file. You don't add or remove them so much as you change them... they are always there. You may have your hair setting set to long hair, or a mohawk, or bald, but you always have a hair setting. You may have your body textures set to be buck naked, or a tuxedo, or a chearleader outfit, but you always have body textures. Etc.

Thanks Reitsuki! I didn't think so, but eh, I wasn't sure.

Originally, i thought it was a anachronym for (Rez) Resurrection from the other online games i've played when a player perished and brought back to life for adventure purposes. It's way too flexible of a word in slang use and can easily be misinterpreted.

So setting everything aside from what was said, it all comes down to seeing what item/s you're wearing is actually a geometric shape from inside your inventory??? Like a sock which looks like a sock icon is not a Prim, but a sock that looks like a box is a Prim related object?!?!

yes sylfie that is correct objects in your inventory that look like a "box" are prim objects.

Think of it like icons in any computer operating system. (Just using the icons on my system, I can't speak for yours), I know any icon that looks like a yellow file cabinet being squished by a vice is a .zip compressed file. I know that any icon that looks like a blue Q is a quicktime movie. I know that any icon that looks like a spiral-bound notebook is a text document. Etc.

Likewise, in SL, you have the same basic things.

Yellow boxes are prims or collections of prims
A little collection of black and color pixels in a square is a texture
Clothing-shaped icons are clothes.

Etc

Yes.

Oh, and along the same lines as rez = resolve, perhaps we should discuss what the word "prim" actucally means. I think most people are aware that prim stands for primative, but I don't think everyone knows why the word is used. In 3D modeling, basic shapes such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, etc. are referred to as primitive shapes, and more complex things like human faces, dogs, trees, bees, educated fleas, etc. are referred to as compound surfaces, or mesh models. In SL, compound surface modeling is not possible, so the only way to make complex shapes is to combine several primative shapes together. With the exception of land and people, everything in SL is made up of only a handfull of basic shapes, primitives, which we call prims.

"Rez" and "derez," meaning to create and destroy something respectively, may have multiple sources. But one of my favorites would have to be the movie TRON. In fact I was sure I ran across an SL dictionary that included this and other references, but I can't think of where it was now...

I can confirm that it does indeed come from the movie TRON. The Lindens are kind of geeky.