[sldev] Google Summer of Code 2008 update

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-05-02, at 14:46, Anna Gulaev wrote:
> I always thought it'd be a good half-solution to allow builders to  
> define a volume (a prim) as "indoor space". So, you'd place a few  
> large prims inside your building to roughly fill the space  
> (including the interior wall surfaces, but not the exterior), make  
> them fully transparent, flag them as "interior volume", and any  
> surface that was fully within one of those volumes would not  
> receive sun/moon lighting or any local lighting that originated  
> outside the volume.

Only if these prims were guaranteed to never under any circumstances  
able to be selected unless you have BOTH "show transparent" and "edit  
mode" on. Trust me, it's swingingely hard to interact with ANYTHING  
when you're inside a prim.