Wednesday 29 December 1999

Are You Using Megaprims??

 This is a pretty big build, including buildings that are circular sections and larger than 256m, so yes it was tempting to use megaprims. Especially since we can now build our own custom megaprims up to 4096m.

But it gets a little bit fiddly working with megaprims, besides having to create each custom one individually.

Also due to nature of, well whatever it is, when you get a big prim, say a cylinder, and hollow it to 99%, its' physics stays at 95%, meaning you can only approach the edge of it so close, and not quite to the edge.

But even more importantly, since the change from OpenSim 0.8.2.1 to OpenSim 0.9.1.1 megaprims are not allowed to be non-phantom. While this is actually only one tiny line of server code, well a switch or flag really, it seems silly to beg the Powers for that.

AND, if we were working with phantom megaprims as buildings, we would then have to add invisiprims to maintain solidity of walls and such. 

So, the long answer is no, we are not using megaprims for most of the construction, but will be using some megaprims for environment etc. For example our moon surface is 1536m x 1536m

Below is an overview of MBA seen from altitude, the moon surface is a single 1536m x 1536m megaprim.

The demarced box in the middle is the actual 2x2 land area of the host world.
The four perimeter boxes are additioanl 2x2s that will be visitable with auto-teleport on this same sim, making it possible to fit this 4x4 project on a 2x2 world.




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