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Lex Neva
wears dorky glasses
Join date: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,361
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07-04-2005 12:04
Physical objects seem to only be visible if you're within 20 meters or so. This can be a pain for games that have physical components, because players may not be able to see them from the opposite end of the playing arena.
I just spent a few hours dissecting the issue, and I made a discovery: you can make a physical object out of the Light material, and it'll be visible from much further off. I hope this helps someone avoid wasting hours figuring this out like I did.
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Synergy Belvedere
Prim Reaper
Join date: 7 Jul 2004
Posts: 253
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07-05-2005 10:09
Awesome Lex! Thanks! 
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Komuso Tokugawa
Registered User
Join date: 3 Mar 2005
Posts: 93
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07-05-2005 14:20
Awesome X 2...I just had this problem and it was bugging the hell out me...now all ok  |
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Jeffrey Gomez
Cubed™
Join date: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,522
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07-05-2005 15:02
Actually, this doesn't have so much to do with Physics as it does just general viewing.
Smaller objects (that is, objects with less mass) are visible at greatly reduced range. This is by design, but pretty damned annoying.
And yep - light prims are the way to fix that. You can easily have a light prim attached to an object with an invisible texture and it'll be visible at extreme range.
Very useful.
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