Somebody told me that I could use the UID of any texture in a script, instead of putting the texture in inventory and using its name, and it would work forever. This seems to be true. I uploaded a texture, copied its UID into a script, then deleted the texture, but when I used the UID in a llSetTexture call, the texture appeared where I wanted it, even though it no longer existed in my inventory, or anybody's inventory.
Can this be true, that every texture ever uploaded to SL remains in some heavenly inventory, forever, until the end time, or until pigs fly, whichever happens last?
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Lee Ludd
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09-02-2005 22:41
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
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09-02-2005 23:11
Yes, the UUID is a permanent key for the asset - texture, sound, anim... whatever.
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Ben Bacon
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09-03-2005 02:21
How permanent though?
I would hate to have people running off to do this, only to find that the asset servers garbage-collect every 17th of the month or something. If non-running scripts don't hold references to textures no longer in inventory, could they vanish in the proverbial puff? |
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Alondria LeFay
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Join date: 2 May 2003
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09-03-2005 09:07
Not so far. UUID's for textures I made in Beta still hold their UUIDs.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
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09-03-2005 10:24
Dude, texture UUIDs are so permanent, one of the first scripts ever written before SL had even hit alpha still holds valid UUIDs
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Keknehv Psaltery
Hacker
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09-03-2005 13:06
I saw one of those early LSL scripts that looked like PASCAL... And the UUIDs are still there...
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Strife Onizuka
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09-03-2005 23:52
Map UUID's are garbage collected.
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