-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 visually impaired people would still need to know if the door is open, if the trolley is on the station, if someone bumped into them etc
On 16/4/2010 12:48, Dzonatas Sol wrote: > I don't think you thought through all cases. Consider blind users, as > they would only be concerned with objects within relative space, then > even on a busy sim the sim would not have to send any updates to the client. > > Even if not blind, lets say someone has their view limit set only to > relative space, as would be the potential possibility for those that > mainly leave their client open for chat. Normally the viewer is set to > greater than 64m away view distance, yet if someone has the chat window > maximized then that distance isn't really needed. It would be an option > to have the viewer automatically drop viewable distance to 30m or less, > which would be optimal for chat distance. > > It's a use-case/concept that is low-hanging fruit for client-side physics. > > Dale Glass wrote: >> It seems to me you're optimizing for rather narrow cases: sims of mostly >> static objects, and presumably nobody else around. But why optimize for >> something that is going to be very fast already? >> >> The most benefit would be gained from improving the performance of busy >> sims, but it sounds like those ideas would rarely work in such a case. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvIzXgACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmX2nQCdHlBNhgn/8HtaivsklbcaMeRK oWUAnAmJsLFRcl9l9dlzAD+hKJvHfNV0 =Avci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
