Er... Just color the dots based on talk/shout/toofar? ;) -Adeon
On May 9, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Ricky <kf6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Correct, but most often a thick horizontal plane centered on your avatar's > altitude is considered the most critical area. This volume is supposed to be > indicated by the dots being round instead of triangular, thus giving the > vertical filtering while the circles give the horizontal. I admit that just > changing the shape of the dots is most likely not enough - if they changed > brightness, and maybe hue or alpha, as well it would be clearer who's in the > same thick plane. > > I say "supposed to be indicated by" because of the now well-known issues with > resolving coarse altitude differences above about 1km... > > Ricky > Cron Stardust > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Zai Lynch > <i_really_needed_a_new_mail...@gmx.de> wrote: > Well, I don't know either about these circles. I only read about them in this > thread, though it seems they're supposed to indicate if someone is in chat > range or not. Though a circle won't indicate that, since SL is 3 dimensional. > If someone appears to be in chat range on the mini map, they might not be, as > chat range is a sphere, not a circle. > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Lance Corrimal <lance.corri...@eregion.de> > wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 12:27:40 schrieb Oz Linden: > > > No... the user experience folks decided that the minimap was confusing > > enough and that the circles made it worse. > > says a lot about those folks ;) > > > As punishment, we assigned it to them to find a better solution :-) > > I like the sound of that. > > That being said, has anyone ever seen a member of the user experience team > inworld? > > > bye, > LC > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > -- > @ZaiLynch > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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