[sldev] Optimus Prim vs. Megatrim: "The Big Prim Problem"

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 10:26:42 PDT 2007


On 17-Oct-2007, at 11:46, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Well, you can't completely ignore them in the physics engine.

You can continue to treat them ALL as cubes, as the physics engine  
currently does, but then you get the inadvertent invisible  
obstruction problem.

Perhaps the thing to do is to have them ignored UNLESS they're cubes  
with no twist, profile cut, taper, or sheer. Path cut should be OK  
because that is a simple transform that the system already models  
correctly.

OK, then:

Have an option to remove restrictions.

If a prim > 10m is a cube with simple geometry, it is treated as such.

Otherwise, it's ignored by the physics engine.




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