Prim Count

While out in a club, it was brought to my attention that I was over the Club's Prim Limit. How can I tell what my personal prim count is?

I don't think there is an easy way to tell.

But if you have to ask, you're probably wearing too much.

You can count the number of items you are wearing that are attached to your avi...........such as hair, jewelry, prim clothes, shoes and such to get how many prims you are personally wearing. But I was told that prims attached to an avatar don't count against any allotment for a region or sim. So, I'm a little confused about what you are asking unless you are asking how many prims on the parcel you happen to be on might be. If that is the case you can go to the world tab and down to the about land and click it. On the general tab (or it might be on the object tab) you will get a total prim count vs the total allowed.

I've never heard of anyone wearing too many prims for anywhere..........but if it's a private island or sim the owner may have some control there to lessen lag. Something I've not run into yet though. If I did, I suppose I would leave................not going to take my hair off because SL has lag. Sorry.

At busy places people with lots of prims tend not to rez properly to other viewers, so angel wings look like sheets of grey cardboard and prim dreadlocks look like grey plasticene! I tend to keep myself simple for that reason.

By 'brought to your attention' do you mean a member of staff told you? Some places have rules about how many attachments you can wear and scripts you can run (anim overrides, bling etc) if they get very busy, so as to lessen the load on the sim - not so much a land prim count thing as a consideration thing. When you're going somewhere that's likely to be really rammed it can be a good idea to have an alternative outfit - low prim attachments, non-prim hair, that sort of thing.

What you do is find a nice place where you can rez objects. Then go into your inventory and drag your individual attachments to the ground. Right click each of them and choose edit. The general tab will show you how many prims are in your attachment. Add them up and you have your total prim count.

Exactly. A staff member told me. Do they have a way of seeing how many proms each visitor has without counting item by item? Thanks for all the answers. It makes sense, to limit prims, in places where a lot of Bling Might show up.

Hehe, basically you have to dress your most unattractive when going out in public.

Heh, no, just avoid the mega-clubs and popular slingo places.

yay newbs..once again..you've forgotten something....


what you wear...whats attached to your body...and other things that are ACTUALLY ATTACHED to you...do NOT affect the prim count for the sim or area of land..

The person that told you that you were over the limit..was obviously either an idiot. or figured you to be one and wanted you out.

one again. What you wear and have attached to your body. DOES NOT affect the prim limit for a certain area.

All the textures and prims still need to be rendered, and the scripts and animations use resources.

In heavily used sims, or ones that already use most of the sim resources (like Samurai Island or Dark Life), everyone reducing their personal strain on the sim is a good thing.

In some places bling is considered low-level griefing.

As well it should be ;D

Yes, Simba, as we said earlier, prims worn do not count towards a parcel's limit - they do, however, put extra stress on the server. If you get 40 people together wearing 20+ prim wigs and jewellery in the region of 100s, it's going to slow things down.

I don't think you can tell per say how many prims a person is wearing, because worn attachments give you the same right-click options as the avatar wearing them would, not the same as a plain object. But when you're familiar with building (or just how things are put together) it's pretty easy to tell when someone's wearing a lot or a little. If someone's wearing the basic starter av with nothing else attached, it's unlikely they have many prims on 'em. Once you start adding a curly wig, or detailled shoes, or complex jewellery, you can guess the numbers are just going up. When a dragon drops into your nightclub you know there's gonna be problems

If you do want to go to busy places, it's nice (for you and others too) if you can make up a pretty outfit with the bare minimum of prim attachments and scripts. A nicely made 'standard' hair (someone here makes nice ones but I forget who - anyone got any suggestions? Wanted to pick one up for similar reasons!), low prim shoes, texture jewellery as opposed to individual prims, that sort of stuff.

All that reducing the prim count on your avi sort of takes the fun out of "dressing up" to go out to a club, don't it? I guess we are really only supposed to dress up and look all shiny and decked out to just stand alone on some barely used sim........now that's what I call something to really look forward to.

Ya know, that thought crossed my mind. Earlier a few of us ganged up on a griefer, maybe it wasn't even a club staffer that told me. It bears looking into.

Usually when it's a club there's one or two sploders around, constantly generating waves of particles. Tip jars that flood an entire room with particle "thank you"s. 1 light per m² and some constantly rotating 1024x1024 textures and a 100 prim dance floor that changes colour every second.

Someone would have to be covered head to toe with individually blinging twisted toruses to even come close to what some clubs all have around .

Robin Sojourner makes some lovely standard hair in at least two styles (I own both) and a selection of colors. The texturing is key, and she offers some very nicely detailed texturing and a pony tail attachment for a low-prim attractive style.

I seem to be in a very small minority of established residents who don't use prim hair. Only Robin provides a styling that works for my close cut, swept back hair style. The advantage is that I don't have to worry about prim hair lag or showing up bald until my hair rezzes.

I got to the botom of the situation, and Boy am I embarrased. I assumed the message was from someone from the club I was in at the time, but it was actually from my landlord!I must have had too much junk lying around the apartment when I went out. OOPS! Sorry for the needless thread. Thanks for all the answers, though.