[sldev] Physical Object Prim Limitation

[Aimee Walton]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 05:16, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> How  about allowing phantom and non-phantom prims to coexist in the  
> same link set, and only have the 32 prim limit apply to non-phantom  
> prims and avatars? Or better yet, have the avatar proxy become  
> phantom so it wouldn't count either? I have no idea how difficult  
> this would be to implement, but there seems to be some precidence  
> for phantom and non-phantom prims to share a linkset when flexible  
> and non-flexible are linked together, assuming flexible and phantom  
> are processed the same way for physics.


That was my first thought too, allowing phantom and non-phantom prims  
to be linked would also solve other problems, such as making  
buildings easier to package when they contain phantom parts. How many  
times have you walked solid into a curtain or flower prim linked to a  
building? :)

On Jul 31, 2008, at 05:15, Soft wrote:
> It might also be useful if seated avatars worked as phantom objects as
> well. This way vehicles wouldn't stop when too many people sit on
> them. Given that avatars register as prims on the end of link sets, it
> could ease implementation as well.


Need to be careful about making avatars phantom though, stopping that  
was previously a hotly debated deliberate change back in 2005,  
there's lots of old discussion on it.

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=29561
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=58338
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-264

Although a lot has changed since then. Andrew Linden suggests in one  
of those posts sitting on a non-physical prim to move through stuff  
was considered a bug to be fixed then, while 'fixing' it now would  
break just about every teleporter in SL.

Aimee.