On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:29:12 -0700 (PDT), a...@skyhighway.com wrote: > There was some talk lately about draw distance. i mentioned that from my > place if i have my draw distance turned up over about 150 i can almost > count on crashing when i tp. i'm really sorry i can't describe the > problem any better than that. If someone wants to tell me how i could > understand it better, i'd love to listen? > > Anyway, i mentioned in mail to this list that it would be really cool if > there were an onscreen widget like the movement & camera controls that > made draw distance a lot easier to change. Please forgive me for not > having already figured out how to do that myself. Just sayin' tho, it > would be really nice if, like for instance, Snowglobe had either a mouse > gesture, keyboard short cut, or onscreen widget (all three?) for rapidly, > easily changing draw distance, i think it's a function that lots of > people would use heavily. i know there's performance concerns, but if, > for instance, the onscreen widget included a simple performance bar > indicator that went down as the draw distance was turned up, that would > communicate pretty well to all the people who didn't know better for > whatever reason. > > The tp crash i get is just one more reason to make the setting easy to > deal with. Besides, to me it seems like such a natural part of camera > controls that i don't know why it's not there already? If it was me > adding the feature i'd put it in the camera controls widget. i'd been > using SL for several months before i even realized that draw distance was > configurable.
You just described what already exists in the Cool VL Viewer (which v1.25 branch is also based off Snowglobe v1.5): http://sldev.free.fr/ Henri. _______________________________________________ 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
