[sldev] Re: Privacy Pocket

[Argent Stonecutter]

>>> * Parcel owner would be able to enable a parcel option that would
>>> make from 650m-768m on the z-axis private.

>> Why this arbitrary area specifically? I'd implement this as a new  
>> sort
>> of primitive. Simply create a box (I'd like spheres too) in whatever
>> area you want, and assign it access parameters.

> It's not arbitrary.  It was selected as a compromise between the  
> ability
> to navigate aircraft over the mainland and room for the privacy  
> pocket.

There is no altitude between 0 and 4096 meters that isn't going to  
interfere with navigation. It's bad enough that ban lines have been  
expanded as it is, having invisible boxes in the sky that trash your  
plane would be intolerable.

And there's no reason to put the region in that range anyway. It  
could just as easily be flagged by a non-zero *global* Z coordinate  
as by a specific *region* Z coordinate. In region coordinates it  
could be presented as being at "-768 meters" or at "10000 meters",  
but when you get there ground would have a zero Z coordinate but the  
global coordinates would have an origin at <12345,67890,-768>. Since  
it's a "sealed" volume at parcel boundaries navigation at these  
coordinates across region boundaries simply would not happen.

>> This also reminds me of a suggestion I already made before:
>>
>> Change the way banlists and land access work. Instead of this  
>> annoying
>> fence, simply make the sim pretend there's nothing there. People
>> could move over the land, but wouldn't see anything in it, and
>> somebody on the parcel wouldn't see the unallowed person either.
>
> I'm not sure the current Havok implementation can deal with that.

I think it could. I've talked to Lindens about it and the objection  
wasn't "Havok can't do that", but "It could be confusing".