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blaze Spinnaker

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Join date: 12 Aug 2004

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12-22-2004 02:23

Am I the only one doing this? Has anyone run into any significant reliability problems with this?

Some of my newer objects have a lot of preferences which configure via the dialog and I store by setting the prim params on a "preference prim". I am wondering how 'stable' this storage is.

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

blaze Spinnaker

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Join date: 12 Aug 2004

Posts: 5,898

12-22-2004 02:28

Ok and setObjectDesc / setObjectName as well .. it now occurs to me that I can use this as well.

Does LL randomly change these values when sims get reset or you fly between sims, etc etc?

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Raphael Rutherford

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Join date: 26 Mar 2004

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12-22-2004 02:35

Stable is not a word that goes well with LSL.

You can be pretty sure that LL WILL (at the most inconvenient time) change anything they like (withouth telling in advance ofcourse).

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Goodbye and thanks for all the prims.

Strife Onizuka

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Join date: 3 Mar 2004

Posts: 5,887

12-22-2004 05:03

some things are stable and some aren't. Primitive params once set are generaly stable as long as they are valid. There are some values for prim shapes that are going to generate prims the sim will not like and the sim will delete it, a prim that will be invisible, or a prim that will have a bad bounding box (or worst case it will create a prim that will crash the sim).

But once it is set it's stable.

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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey

Using llSetPrimitiveParams for local storage of preferences
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	12-22-2004 02:23 Am I the only one doing this? Has anyone run into any significant reliability problems with this? Some of my newer objects have a lot of preferences which configure via the dialog and I store by setting the prim params on a "preference prim". I am wondering how 'stable' this storage is. _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	12-22-2004 02:28 Ok and setObjectDesc / setObjectName as well .. it now occurs to me that I can use this as well. Does LL randomly change these values when sims get reset or you fly between sims, etc etc? _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Raphael Rutherford Resident Resident Join date: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 236	12-22-2004 02:35 Stable is not a word that goes well with LSL. You can be pretty sure that LL WILL (at the most inconvenient time) change anything they like (withouth telling in advance ofcourse). _____________________ Goodbye and thanks for all the prims.
Strife Onizuka Moonchild Join date: 3 Mar 2004 Posts: 5,887	12-22-2004 05:03 some things are stable and some aren't. Primitive params once set are generaly stable as long as they are valid. There are some values for prim shapes that are going to generate prims the sim will not like and the sim will delete it, a prim that will be invisible, or a prim that will have a bad bounding box (or worst case it will create a prim that will crash the sim). But once it is set it's stable. _____________________ Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence. - James Nachtwey

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