[opensource-dev] Draw Distance

Suz Dollar websuz at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 17:31:47 PDT 2010


This is one concept that I have wanted for at least four years in SL. I 
change draw distance multiple times a day depending on where I"m 
visiting. Many of my own estate regions I can use a full powered 512 
draw distance. Going to my public sandbox, however, requires an instant 
drop to 128 or lower. Visiting my old 'hometown' of Caledon, mandates 
the same. And I have to be honest, the places I can still use 512 draw 
distance with viewer 2.x has dropped dramatically. I now usually can't 
use higher than 256 yet have been assured since the first beta release 
that there should be no performance difference between 1.23 and 2.x with 
regard to graphics. An easily accessible way to change draw distance 
would be awesome. I'm also frustrated that its so much harder with the 
slider to hit the magic numbers: 64, 96, 128,  256.... you get the idea. 
But if the slider were at least out on the main UI somewhere, my own 
preference being up in the navigation area, but anywhere directly 
accessible, would be AWESOME.

Char


aklo at skyhighway.com wrote:
> There was some talk lately about draw distance.  i mentioned that from my
> place if i have my draw distance turned up over about 150 i can almost
> count on crashing when i tp.  i'm really sorry i can't describe the
> problem any better than that.  If someone wants to tell me how i could
> understand it better, i'd love to listen?
>
> Anyway, i mentioned in mail to this list that it would be really cool if
> there were an onscreen widget like the movement & camera controls that
> made draw distance a lot easier to change.  Please forgive me for not
> having already figured out how to do that myself.  Just sayin' tho, it
> would be really nice if, like for instance, Snowglobe had either a mouse
> gesture, keyboard short cut, or onscreen widget (all three?) for rapidly,
> easily changing draw distance,  i think it's a function that lots of
> people would use heavily.  i know there's performance concerns, but if,
> for instance, the onscreen widget included a simple performance bar
> indicator that went down as the draw distance was turned up, that would
> communicate pretty well to all the people who didn't know better for
> whatever reason.
>
> The tp crash i get is just one more reason to make the setting easy to
> deal with.  Besides, to me it seems like such a natural part of camera
> controls that i don't know why it's not there already?  If it was me
> adding the feature i'd put it in the camera controls widget.  i'd been
> using SL for several months before i even realized that draw distance was
> configurable.
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
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