[sldev] Linkable prim over 256

[Frisby, Adam]

AFAIK, OpenSim has native linking of objects >= 256 prims. You can take a look in the Hippo & Meerkat viewers as both support it.

Adam

From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com [mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Suzy Deffeyes
Sent: Tuesday, 22 December 2009 3:13 PM
To: Teravus Ovares
Cc: SLDEV
Subject: Re: [sldev] Linkable prim over 256

My hazy memory seems to recall that it was somewhat protocol limited, I think the field in the packet that is the object count was an 8 bit value, which means the protocol limited you to 256, not the client or server code. I might be off on this, it was a while ago that i looked into it.

I made a small change in the hippo viewer that will allow the end user to select a random number of objects to link, and they get linked into groups of 255 and squirted across in the protocol. So the way to use that to link more than 256 is to select a group of objects, and then do the link step *twice*. It's not pretty, but allows builders to link groups of objects without having to sit there and fuss with counting objects.  It seemed to work on both OpenSim and the main SL grid.

Suzy/Pixel
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com<mailto:teravus at gmail.com>> wrote:
Just a clarification here.    The code may also be server side..  but
if you create 444 objects and try to link them all on OpenSimulator
using the Standard Linden Client downloaded from the website it
presents a message box that says 'Unable to link these 444 objects.
You can link a maximum of 256 objects'.      This means that it is
also client side because there is no server side code to restrict the
number of objects you can link in OpenSimulator without a 3rd party
addon module.

Regards

Teravus

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Rob Nelson
<nexisentertainment at gmail.com<mailto:nexisentertainment at gmail.com>> wrote:
> It's server-side, you can't change it unless you're running on OpenSim.
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 14:37 -0500, Andrew Simpson wrote:
>> hi guys,
>>
>> i am trying to find the code that set the limit on 256 link on the prim
>> in one, wher it is in the code source or iut in xml? let me know thank
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