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

[Matthew Underwood]

I am sure many people would love to have the maximum size increased
somewhat on the mainland as well, say to 15 or 20m.

Why don't they add in a check for megaprim attachments?  I have yet to
see a valid reason to have a megaprim attachment yet.  A good portion
of megaprim griefers (on no-rez) were using megaprim attachments
either with flashing colors or invisibility textures.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Matthew Dowd
<matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> This approach sounds "right" in that it captures the policy which was (at
> some point, possibly still is), that megaprims were allowed on private
> estates but not on mainland.
>
> The implementations suggested sounds a little complex, I'd propose something
> simpler:
>
> An estate owner has an additional option in the estate tools "Allow
> Megaprims".
>
> If you are on a sim with that option checked, then you can rez megaprims
> (there probably should be some maximum to the dimensions, but this has been
> discussed elsewhere), and the restrictions in the build tools is relaxed.
>
> If you are on a sim with that option unchecked, then megaprims fail to rez
> (and no copy ones remain in inventory) with a suitable "prim too large" type
> message, and the restrictions in the build tool are enforced.
>
> The assumption is that mainland would have this option unchecked.
>
> A slightly more versatile (and IMHO preferable) variant would be to instead
> of a checkbox, have a sim-wide maximum prim dimension which the sim owner
> can adjust (in the same way they can adjust sea level).
>
> So the default (and value for mainland) would be 10m, but an estate owner
> could set this to 100m, or larger.
>
> Again the same rules as above apply - the build dialog restricts to the
> value of the sim, and prims sized above this limit fail to rez.
>
> Matthew