Mega prim Creation

Well, I'm done making them. My home sim's already been "fixed" so it can't be done there, and by the time I get off work, the other sims where I can create new megaprims will be converted, I'm sure. I'll pack mine up later today, and will make them available to builders, most likely via SLX, for free.

I can still build on my home sim but cant get slproxy to find the ObjectAdd file I made and can only make 100m ones with nicholaz viewer really annoying I need 120x50x40 well I need several to get this sculpty platform the right size

Just for kicks, try renaming the packet file to something without the studlycaps, like mega.packet, and then try /in mega <blah> (should be able to do this without restarting the proxy.) I don't know what OS you're on, but I'm wondering from the error message you mentioned in the other thread if there might be a case sensitivity thing getting in your way.

thanks for reply tryed it with mega.packet instead but is the same still says it cant find the file

Apparently my island is due to restart tomorrow so for a limited time come get your prim on if you wish. Clean up after yourself and don't leave anything laying about, and go up about 300m preferably.

Send me a set please

My land in Moran (206,134,54) "Solomon's Parkland" still allows the creation of megaprims; I've got the land set for 15 minute autoreturn if someone forgets to clean up after themselves. Please come and make all you want while you can!

Thank you, I took you up on this and made a *lot* of prims.

Thanks I'll look for them. mmmm fencing... drooool

Seriously folks. Got ahold of a 15x15x15 and it worked quite well for the station. More like 28 wide.

They are on SLX now. Just search for "Megaprim".

Don't say I never gave ya' nuthin'.


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Or come grab a set inworld, and check out my store.
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I don't suppose anyone made some 20/30/40 x 1 x 0.1 or similar did they? I was so busy making other sizes I forget to sort my fences.. (the 1.5 of Ceera's are too high )

Use a 1.5 vertical repeat and bury the lower 1/3, for 1 M high.

And you can use a 0.5 dimple to make a 0.75 M high fence. A dimple of 0.33 will make it a 1 M fence.

(make it a sphere. dimple one end to 0.5, make it a box again.)

Thanks Ceera! I can't bury them.. they are along walkways in the air.. but will have a go at dimpling

Tested this. Use the 1.5 M high megaprims that are very thin, in my kit. Dimple begin of 0.333, vertical texture repeat of 1.5, vertical offset of -0.25 gives you a 1 M high fence with what appears to be 1 vertical repeat. Set your horizontal repeat as desired.

I made some 30, 32 and 64x1x.1 specifically to use as fence walls in 512s and 1064s parcels. I'll send you copies inworld.

hey guys about megaprims , do they cause any lag more then usual ?
I just got some and i am changing the bike/horse-paths on my groups sim and i was wondering if i should actually do it, i mean if i could change all the paths it would save lots of prims for other stuff, but if its gonna cause extra lag then its not really worth it.I think i heard that the old ones did but it might be just me imagining it,

So do megaprims (new ones) cause more lag then just using multiple prims to get the same size?

This has been said before, but it's worth saying it again.. isn't it great how these megaprims really showed what a great community there is in SL Makes me proud to be an avatar.....

It seems to depend a lot on what you do with them.

Most of the new ones are "better behaved" primarily because they don't need to be heavily "tortured' to be the shape that they were created at. Their bounding boxes match their appearance.

So, for example, a 100 M long, 2 M wide, 0.5 M thick new mega could be used quite well to replace a strip of ten 10 M long, 2 M wide, 0.5 M thick normal prims. But if you position a mega so it crosses sim borders, or make it physical, I would imagine it has the same problems as the old ones.

Right now, I still advise using these with caution. They can allow creation of things that are flat-out impossible in SL by any other means. Such as an arch that is a perfectly circular curve with a 50 M radius. But just using them to reduce prim count should be done cautiously, comparing sim condition before and after their creation.

There are two strongly held opposing schools of thought: yes, and no.

In any event, they may be coming back.

Andrew Linden discussed the plan here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Andrew_Linden/Office_Hours/2008_05_15

Here's a summary of his plan from that page, minus the chatter in between while he was talking:

"I just posted my revised outline of my "Megaprim Liberation" plan, which is not official LL policy, but merely the plan I would submit to others in LL should we ever have a meeting to talk about megaprims...So the steps toward Megaprim Liberation are:
(1) Add a feature that allows land owners to return any object that overlaps their land (aka Prim Encroachment)
(2) Make static objects collide across region boundaries
(3) Gradually (every few weeks or months) increase the default max prim size (and perhaps linkability) so... to 16, then 32, then 64m etc... up to 256 max do it incrementally so we can have time to fix any resulting problems (server or client-side) that crop up as a result
(4) Add a feature that allows Estate/Region owners to set void, distant horizon, and cloud layers/textures (to eliminate the need for >256m megaprim sky/horizon effects)
(5) Crack down on megaprims with sides > 256m"

Sidewinder Linden: One of the internal discussions is to look at viewer performance impacts..

Cool thank you , seems like there is no definition answer yet.