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

[talin sands]

The reason I sugessted that the sim owner create the megas for use is that
they may not want to allow anything over a certian size and as such they
would have full control of the megas on their sims.

On 14/05/2008, Matthew Underwood <sakkaku at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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