Link Objects Borked!!! Photo To Prove It!

Ok, I admit that I am still learning the trillion things there is to learn of SL, but Look At This Picture....

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/yrrek_gran/nolink_002.jpg

It is difficult to learn some of the obscure properties 'inworld' but I KNOW HOW TO LINK 2 PRIMS TOGETHER!

I have done it a million times. 4.5 meters are LESS than the 32 meter limit!

Tried it with 3 different viewers, not the viewers. What gives?

I have birds flying around my property that are linked 20 meters apart, I watch them every day.

Why is no one else seen this?

The max link distance for two .5M prims is about 4.25M. You've got your two objects 4.5M apart. That's about a quarter meter too far. Either increase their size a bit or else place a third prim in between them, and you'll see that they link just fine. With just the two of them like that, you won't be able to go much beyond 4.25M separation before the link will fail.

The 32M limit you mentioned is for prims that are 10M in size. The linkable distance gets smaller as the prims get smaller. Link distance works kind of like gravity in that sense.

Those birds of which you speak are either made of larger prims, or else they have other objects in between them to bridge the link.

But,

If the 32 meter limit is measured from center of prim to center of prim.......?

That is how Wiki explains it.

I guess I will never understand all of this stuff, besides I am blonde.

Chosen, maybe you can help me then, I see that you one of the enlightened from your past posts. I have to transmit a sound from 77 meters in the air to ground level. The maximum volume is not substantial to carry that far or just barely. I have played with the amplification of the wave file and such, but there is too much distortion and it is not acceptable.

I was planning to use message link between prims to act as extension speakers nearer ground level. I have linked the master and slave together at 30 meters and I seems to work fairly well except the POLE connecting the two prims.

I only not just need to bring the sound closer to the ground, but also make it multi-directional around a building. Any suggestions?

Objects can llShout() up to 96m. So, have your main object llShout() to the remote speakers. Have the remote speakers listen for the "play" command. When they hear it, play the sound. No need to link anything.

100m, actually. You may be thinking of the (supposed) max sensor distance.

Everyone told me to use message linked so I quit using llSay and llShout.

This works great!

Thanks! : )

Make sure you use a channel other than 0 !

Then the Wiki is wrong. Someone posted to exact algorithm somewhere once, and it turns out to be very complicated. The reason it is very complicated seems to have something to do with the way that 3D graphics engines work.

As a simple rule of thumb, you get the "...about 30 meters for large objects..." statement, but it is no the ful algorithm.

The 32 meter limit in the Wiki is talking about a build that is connected (or touching each other). Their prim centers need to be no more than 32 meters.


What Chosen is talking about is that the distance between two prims that are NOT touching need to have their centers no more than 4.25 meters apart.