[sldev] visual muting

[Dale Glass]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 20:41:16 Eric M. Tulla wrote:
> Using impostors for visual muting allows you to display a muted avatar
> using only 2 triangles (a billboard) with minimal pre-computation, while
> still preserving form.  Using LOD would require greater overhead for the
> actual muting and less of a performance gain, especially if you want to
> preserve shape (even with a really low LOD you'll still be drawing many,
> many more triangles per frame).

The problem I see with that is that my reason for wanting to visually mute 
somebody is that I don't want to see them, because they're say, wearing a 
mature attachment in a PG area. 

I've had plans for some time to do some related work and will get back to 
it as soon as I finish some more urgent pending things.

But my basic idea is to make the viewer fully mute avatars and all their 
stuff that are banned on the parcel the user is standing on. The current 
situation is that if you ban somebody they still can hang around the ban 
border and play sounds, use particles, etc. 

My plan is to mute banned people completely. Make them fully invisible, 
including the avatar, attachments, sounds, any objects they own and 
particle effects.
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