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

[Andrew Meadows]

The patch is a hack because it's taking advantage of a bug.
The simulator update rollout starting today should fix it.

I've been talking for a while about an unofficial project
called "Megaprim Liberation".  Bridie Linden has organized
an internal meeting on 2008.05.15 to talk about megaprims,
I think to form some official policy/plan on the issue.

The "Megaprim Liberation" project is in progress: Qarl Linden
started working on the first prerequisite: a solution for "Prim
Enchroachment" -- allowing land owners to return objects that
overlap onto their parcel.

I've got office hours tomorrow evening 2008.05.15.  Anyone
who wants to talk about megaprims is welcome to come and
raise that topic, or to ask about any conclusions from the
aforementioned internal meeting.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Andrew_Linden

- Andrew

Able Whitman wrote:
> 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.
>