[sldev] A thought on how to lower resources used by sensors

[Jamey Fletcher]

Nexii Malthus wrote:
> I think rather than keeping the problem on the LSL side, it would be 
> more suitable for being a viewer-side feature entirely that replaced the 
> necessity of such silly HUDs and Gadgets. Finally removing the source of 
> the problem alltogether, and virally so due to the big advantages of 
> being able to be tied into the user interface.

I actually like having it going SIM side, exposed to LSL - different 
people want to crunch different things out of the data.  Right now, the 
HUD I built gives me distance and relative direction, as well as all of 
the agent status flags, such as flying, typing, sitting, walking, etc...

I rebuilt it out of a freebie one I found - and I then had it split the 
list of detected AVs into ones within chat range, and ones outside of 
chat range.  The whole point being - I made it *MINE*, not a built-in 
part of the interface.  That means it takes up the screen real estate I 
want - not the screen real estate of the mysti-tool, or the Friends 
window, or whatever you want to choose.

Of course, should Linden Labs introduce avatar scanning into the UI, I 
will probably end up using it, just because it's there.  But there's a 
fair chance I'll continue using mine, anyway.  Because it does what *I* 
want it to do.