Hi,
do prims that are being used in a HUD contribute towards the prim limit of an area?
I want to put some dynamic text in a HUD but even the most limiting design solution will contain around 400 prims. However since any single HUD is only rendered by a single user theres no need for it to go through the server and hence may not count towards the prim limit.
Thanks,
Rabit Aldrin
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Rabit Aldrin
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08-11-2009 06:02
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Ceera Murakami
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08-11-2009 06:09
Nothing attached to your avatar, either to your body or your HUD positions, counts against the prim limits for the parcels you are on.
*however...* Attached prims that attach to your body do contribute to local lag, and a very complex HUD would at least affect lag for the person wearing it, even if it affects no one else. You can't change the texture of the HUD prims to make your dynamic text? That can be done with changing the texture UUID displayed, and doesn't require a pile of pre-textured prim building blocks. What are you doing that makes it require so many prims? _____________________
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Rabit Aldrin
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08-11-2009 06:23
An extension to the SL GUI for teaching/lectures in SL so that the main lecture text, student questions and answers to said questions are logically seporated and posted in the GUI. This will hopefully make SL lectures clearer and easier to understand.
The current design has 3 lecturer boxes (last 3 messages from the lecturer) and displays one question and one answer to that question from the audience. As well as buttons for next question, next answer to current question, previous lecturer messages etc... to manage the text I was planning to just use the xyText script. Unless theres a better way? thanks for the quick reply. Rabit |
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Rolig Loon
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08-11-2009 07:07
Wow. So if every student in the area has one of those HUDs, there will be quite a bit of local lag...... Students could be waiting so long for the messages to rez that they may be distracted from the lecture altogether.
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Vance Adder
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08-11-2009 07:16
Maybe have a teacher HUD and a student HUD (with limited functionality).... or just have the students interact with something in-world instead of a HUD for each of them.
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Argent Stonecutter
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08-11-2009 08:28
Using XYText you can get 5 alphanumeric characters per prim, so 400 prims means you're trying to display 2000 characters of text!
I would recommend using llSetText and have the text appear as floating text over a plain white background prim. _____________________
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Rabit Aldrin
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08-11-2009 08:31
found a solution, llSetText still works in a HUD.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/johnchaz/Lightattheendofthetunnel.jpg |
