[sldev] A patch to allow creation of megaprims from within the viewer

[Able Whitman]

You're absolutely right, my patch is a hack.

My biggest question is: is it a hack because it's taking advantage of a bug,
or because it is taking advantage of an incomplete feature?

If it's a bug, then at least there's a hacky way for people to create custom
megaprims.

If it's an incomplete feature (and I hope that this is the case) then this
kind of hack will only be necessary until the LL sim fully supports
megaprims.

I seem to recall some discussion during the Havok4 beta days about having
full support for megaprims (in essence removing or raising the artificial
10m limit) once there were some better land management tools in place to
allow people to more easily deal with the griefer scenarios caused by
megaprims. I'd love to know more about the status of these efforts.

--Able


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:37:21 -0400, Able Whitman wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > This is the second small feature I've been working on lately. Apparently
> at
> > some time in the recent past, an LL server update re-enabled the ability
> to
> > create prims with dimensions larger than 10m on a side. There are
> already
> > lots of new megaprims available, mostly for free (like here on
> SLExchange:
> >
> http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=685589
> ).
> > I'm pretty sure most of these prims have been created using
> LibSL-derived
> > tools.
> >
> > I don't know if this new-again ability is intentional or not, although I
> > certainly hope it is because megaprims are incredibly useful. Either
> way, I
> > wanted to be able to create large prims directly in the viewer. My
> biggest
> > reason for wanting this ability is so that any builds I produce using
> these
> > prims will then list me as the creator, instead of the creator of the
> prims
> > that come from megaprim collections. Being able to create them myself
> also
> > gives me the flexibility to have large prims in whatever size I need,
> > regardless of whether someone thought to create one in advance or not.
>
> I myself produced a patch a while ago and recently made it part of the
> Cool SL Viewer standard set of patches (see http://sldev.free.fr/).
>
> The Cool SL Viewer is therefore able to edit large prims (I voluntarily
> limited the maximum size to 100m, because of grieving concerns), but only
> on OpenSim, due to SL's current server side limitations.
>
> Your approach of allowing the creation of arbitrary sized prims is
> interesting but it is indeed a hack (and a SL-specific one as it won't
> be needed on OpenSim based servers).
>
> As much I would _love_ to see LL allowing the free (like in free speech)
> creation and editing of large prims, I consider such a hack as a way to
> work around a limitation that LL _wants_ to stay in force for now...
>
> Not sure how LL would react to a viewer which would implement such a hack:
> any Linden to tell us LL's law on this ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Henri.
>
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