Curious... what is it? New type of prim???

I really don't care what it is.

At this point LL needs to backpedal to get to the level of service they were a year ago. Nevermind all the "new features" when the old features do not work properly.

I want new features!

Anyway, I was thinking, the count down (up?) is going to 4096. Could each one was named "corner" to start, but now has changed to qarl. Could it really be that the new prim will have 4096 "corners" that we can change?

cute

here's a memory refresher course

I responded to a post about bump mapping that confused it with the height maps of the terrains, you disagreed with my post here > /327/12/179531/3.html#post1483603

which corresponds well with the information here >

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=bumpmap

in which you claimed

> No. Firstly bump maps are different from displacement maps

which is clearly rebutted by the fact that Yumi was talking about the bump map feature of SL, which is actually integrated just in a limited fashion.

> a texture can only have 4 channels and one alpha

which is not true of all formats, only some.

Which I rebutted as well.

Every time I rebutted, you either

a) change the subject and conveniently forget what you were talking about and wonder why I'm still talking about it - deflecting the fact you're had it wrong -

or

b) disagree with it again in some other odd tangent. > "it's altering the mesh, not the texture. "

/327/12/179531/3.html

Which is still wrong, because bump maps don't alter the mesh at all. And to repeat an earlier posting - bump mapping is old tech. You claim its new tech to do such things. Nuhuh. Bump mapping has been around for a long long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_mapping

Blinn, James F. "Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces", Computer Graphics, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 286-292 SIGGRAPH-ACM (August 197

OLD.

When you have something wrong, just say so and move on. *shrug*

I hear ya about the service, but this feature is going to be mighty useful for some of us merchants.

I could use it yesterday, already.

Hypatia, my apologies. I'm not sure where my head was yesterday; if I'd bothered to go back over the thread I would have picked up on that. What I should have said to start with is that I think Yumi was using bad terminology when she referred to a "bump texture" and was talking about displacement mapping, not bump mapping.

The bit about the number of channels was a pretty dumb thing for me to say too.

All in all, lots of confusion over nothing really, sorry.

EDIT: This is what I was talking about when I mentioned "new" tech, if you're interested.

"IT'S BIGGER THAN YOU AND YOU ARE NOT ME. "
web on a prim
-LW

Could be, the new version of uBrowser has been released recently.
But what makes you conclude so ?

The Cube Went Down To Georgia
Lookin' For A Square To Steal
He'd Lost His Mind 'cause He Could Not Find
The Sphere That Made The Deal

* Claps *

AJ wins!!

Sounds like a fairly novel approach to things actually. Can't wait to try it out.

I dunno, I had so many brain burps yesterday something was bound to be close.

If the page changes each day, someone should really be archiving it somewhere so that everyone can go through and examine the changes.

It would be hilarious if these weren't cryptic messages to hint at new features, but a wild goose chase to mess with your minds and keep you busy.

I think that's exactly what it was, you know.

The same we they gave us the preview of the new rendering engine 2 years or so ago?

If this is for real -- meshes or nurbs or metaballs or whatever in SL -- I'm gonna pee all over myself.

I'm just thinking of that relatively simple motorcycle that I want, but is just much too curvy do well in SL right now. Oh, and airplanes and stuff. And plants! OMFG... imagine the amazing/cool/creepy avatars you could make...

Actually, I think I kinda did pee already.

@ Stormy -- Please keep in mind that SL isn't the only company in this niche (Sony Home, anyone?), and if SL fails to continue to innovate, they will be left behind. Working on new features and fixing bugs is a balancing act that is extremely difficult to do, but I know of NO software project that drops feature development to solely work on bugs.


(GAH! I keep parsing "metaballs" as "meatballs". Kinda like Cheesy Bacon.)

Bah, I was so new to SL back then I didn't know what was going on. I never heard of them doing that. Sounds interesting, anyone have any pics or something?

As for the concept of this being some sort of new prim mesh or whatever, it seems like it would create an awful lot of polygons that would end up slowing down the lower-end users' processors. Didn't they say that the entire reason they didn't make rounded corners on cubes was because it was just too much rendering? I can't exactly remember what they said.. I bet there's a thread about it somewhere if I look hard enough.

well im gonna ad this here because its kinda looking like they might be related. This looks like a 1 prim sculpture

http://www.qarl.com/qLab/pile/ao/sculptedprim.jpg


from this blog (found this link on slexchange)

http://www.qarl.com/qLab/?p=47

Also, there is a new entry in the wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims

Checking the history, it was done by Qarl Linden



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Oh, yeah, got the above link from this 3PointD blog entry.


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oh neat

been watching that page, kinda annoyed he posted a page without putting any content on it.

People have been using lots of prims to create cubes with rounded edges anyway.

The new method will be much more efficient and faster to render. We also wont get those horrible seams where prims don't meet up properly.

Not to mention (but will) the possiblity of saving a bunch of prims... I've been annoyed at the 15k prims/sim limit - this new stuff may make that a lot less painful.

http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=11827
so is this confirmed?