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What to do with Megaprims
Second Life Insider
Oct 13th 2007 11:51PM So, you would be happy if your megaprim floor were invisible unless you were standing at its center?
What to do with Megaprims
Second Life Insider
Oct 13th 2007 9:55PM You're making a mistake in assuming the only resources are storage.
Consider a case where you have a group of ten avatars on one side of a sim, and a mall on the other. If the mall consists of a giant megaprim, then it will be visible to everyone in the group, and its texture and geometry information must be streamed and processed to everyone present. That consumes bandwidth and CPU resources.
But if it consists of ordinary prims, the combination of size and distance will cause them all to be culled. The mall effectively consumes ZERO resources in this case.
The resource allocation algorithms are all based on an assumption that the basic building block is a certain size. Megaprims break that assumption, and degrade the grid for everyone.
What to do with Megaprims
Second Life Insider
Oct 13th 2007 7:00PM I believe all the people who are screaming for megaprims are missing the point. It's not about pros vs cons, or griefing, or amazing builds. It's about resources. I've posted a lengthy rebuttal on my blog here: http://playprocyon.blogspot.com/2007/10/destroy-all-megaprims.html
Advertising on the television
Second Life Insider
Dec 10th 2006 5:16PM I see it maybe once or twice a week, but I don't recall which shows it aired on. I had only seen it on TV before today; I don't play WoW or visit their website.
Advertising on the television
Second Life Insider
Dec 10th 2006 11:43AM You haven't seen the WoW commercial?
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html
