[opensource-dev] Review Request: STORM-1793 1) Treat all mini-map altitudes above 1020 m as the same height 2) Improve z-level accuracy

Arrehn Oberlander arrehn at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:34:47 PST 2012


On 1/27/12, Jonathan Welch <jhwelch at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been discussed several times at the server group meetings.
> Fixing this just to have a fully correct map display is more trouble
> than it is worth; having to run two packet formatters in parallel
> forever, having to query the viewer what packet format it wants, etc.
> is just not worth such a big effort.


It's 2012. If this is seriously the official reason why SL's premier
client can't support more than 8 bits of z-height data, no one's
buying it, least of all professional software developers. I could have
said that same thing for 2002 as well.

Wake up people.. More than 1/2 of the grid is already working around
this architectural deficiency via all manner of LSL-based hacks. What
do you think the cost of that is compared to making it right? In one
word: apalling and embarassing. As it should be.


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