Invisible object-can't be seen with highlight transparent

Bingo

So megasculpties to drive people crazy could become a cottage industry.

All the "ghost Prims" I've had weren't sculpties, they were stuff that didn't take/delete right. The key to tell is whether your "selected/sat upon" is bizarrely high.

I meant I was wondering if some of these reported ghost prims are really just sculpty extensions like this case.

I don't really understand why the sculpties have these invisible areas around them.

This is a bingo also

The physics engine still thinks they're a sphere.

That's why they have to typically be phantom with a "real" invisible prim to provide the actual collision.

Ah. Is there any way to view them as the physics engine sees them? Does it make a difference if it's made with SL tools or imported into SL?

I don't know of any way to "see" collision boundaries. Other than something like the freebie popgun to make an outline of it.

Doesn't make a difference where the sculpt was made.

All sculpties are imported. They cannot be made within SL.(ETA: The sculpt map is made outside of SL, I mean. The sculpt object is made by applying that texture as a sculpt map, within SL.)

And all sculpties have a physical representation different than their visual.

They may have something other than a sphere (Though sphere is the most common type, I think). Some have a torus physical representation, there are a few types you can have.

And I don't think you can see it's physical representation in any way..though maybe.

You can see the bounding box, though, which is it's very outer limits of where you *might* hit it when walking. To show this, go to Advanced >> Rendering >> Info Displays >> BBoxes


If you don't see the advanced menu, CTRL+ALT+D will show it.

Also, this shows ALL bounding boxes, so it may seem a little cluttered at first. Not sure what the different colours mean..but after looking at it for a bit, you get used to it a little and learn to angle your camera to see what goes where better.

Hope this helps!

Yeah, you can set the type other than sphere via a script.



Ah, very useful, thanks

Yes I was looking for that.

At one time, I was totally addicted to Softimage/3D and XSI1.0/2.0 and could just live in my own creations. The idea of sculpties and prim limits hasn't captured my imagination, so I am pretty ignorant about SL sculpty issues.

I made a few sculpties with Blender, but not in at least a year. If I could just import anything made in Softimage into SL, I'd buy the new version of XSI right now. I think SL would have to be built much differently for Softimage to be as useful with Sl, as I would dream for.

I had the identical problem two times, and in each a different fix was required:

1. A purchased build was full of invisiprims. The prim count on the built was huge and I was in the process of "deconstructing" it only to find these enormous mega-invisible-prims. I used tools such as LOOKSEE, Magic Bracelet, Deep Scan, and others to identify each one, then delete them - in this case once found (with a beacon) they could be deleted if selected "just so". Each often took many tries.

2. My own build. Possibly as a side effect of creating, moving, deleting some mega-prims (and mega-prims with cutouts), I had an invisible prim that would not show up with view transparent, had no beacon. It did show up using the tools above, but all the information about it (other than its existence) could not be found, usually with the message "object out of range". In this case, a ghost prim I think. Region restart fixed the situation right away - no more ghost prim.

Good Luck

Invisible prims show up against a semi-transparent object -- I have my work pads set to 2% transparency for this purpose.

A good way to see if you have ghost prims is if your selected/sat upon number is out of kilter in the objects tab in "about land."