Please increase the link limit...

Hi, I've recently come back to SL in hopes of being able to model WW2 era ships. I still see that y'all have not increased the link distance past 30-40m....


Please...


WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO INCREASE IT !?!??!?!?!?!??!


Thanks,

-James Few

To a first approximation, based on extrapolation from other feature requests, probably never.

Apparently it's in Havok 2.

never and its better like this ^^

How does the linking limit prevent you from modeling the warship?

And who is this 'y'all' you're talking about?

I don't understand why this limit is stopping you..

link parts, build front part of ship, link it..build middle, link it, build end, link it...then edit it all, right click it, take..in your inventory will be one part.

And when you pull out, have edit window opened already (ctrl 3), and then drag it out. then it will still be together, so you can move it as one peice, etc..

The link limit is not a show stopped for anything, you can always get around it.

The link distance limit is not a technical constraint (so it's got nothing to do with Havok versions), but a social constraint. It's LL's way of making sure someone doesn't build a 500M long object, and piss off all their neighbors, their neighbors' neighbors, and their neighbors' neighbors' neighbors. I don't know how they came up with the 40'ish size they've implimented, but that's the number they settled on, and they've stuck with it for years. I doubt they will ever change it.

In any case, as others have stated, there's no reason link distance contstraints should stop you from modeling anything, whether it be WWII ships, houses, giant hippos, or whatever else might strike your fancy. I've got two full size starships hovering above my land, one 123M long, and one 90M long. They're certainly not all one link set, but who cares? For objects that are non-physical, linking is really nothing more than a quick selection and organization tool. It wouldn't benefit you on a large build for anything more than that.


By the way, just so you know, I've seen lots of WWII ships inworld. Some have looked really spectacular. Link distance didn't stop those buiders. Don't let it stop you either.

Go get a copy of Builder's Buddy from the scripting forum, its really useful for packaging and rerezzing large objects.

The rezzing is not the probblem, it's the getting it to move. I really don't like using multimove and would rather use a non physical script for 1 big piece....

Um, it's called Rez Foo?

well, I care. But I'm pushing the envelope.

I just finished packaging my build in BonnyDoon so that I can rez it from a box and it was quite a challenge. It took me about 30 hours of work to do it.

The build is 230m x 160m x 180m. 11690 prims linked into 1125 objects. 375 of those objects were Linden trees because they can't be linked at all.

But I don't really want to link something that large as a single object until and if we get the ability to maintain the hierarchy of linked objects. But it would be nice to link the build into 20 or so objects. When you're dealing with hundreds of objects, it's a time-consuming process just to put a script in each object and to take a copy.

So I guess I agree that the link distances won't stop you but they sure as hell can slow you down at very large scale.