Hi Toni that is so teasing to think about a 10*10km region - i was at an os 512*512m megaregion, and that was realy a better experience than with the region crossing, specialy for vehicle usage.
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Toni Alatalo <ant...@kyperjokki.fi> wrote: > On ma, 2010-09-06 at 08:21 +0200, Peter Steinlechner wrote: > > terrain creation. Could the region size then be set on a per region > > base or just globaly per opensim server ? Either way would be fine for > > me, if we could run then a 512x512m area instead of 4 normal regions > > per server. Could i change the required setting somewhere in the taiga > > server or in the database ? > > Reportedly (opensim devs told us) that it's a compile time constant in > OpenSim. REGIONSIZE = 256 or so. So it is AFAIK global, and you can't > have variable sizes. This constant is respected more in 0.7 than in > earlier versions, so they recommended that it would be good to test with > that. So to test this you need to change some config and recompile. > > The reason why it's been fixed at 256 so far is that the Linden protocol > and viewer, I suppose exactly in the multiregion part, supposes that. > > Naali doesn't (currently) have regions at all, just a single global > scene, and it doesn't have size limits. There is a couple places in UI > now where we've hacked a couple 0-255 checks currently, I think for when > you move objects when editing and in camera movement code. But these are > easy to remove when testing this. > > I'm looking forward to seeing a 10km * 10km sim and testing some racing > there :) (Nebadon of osgrid fame has a racing megaregion, iirc 8km*8km, > and said that would be interested in testing that thing on a single big > region with Naali) > > ~Toni > > > 2010/9/6 Antti Ilomäki <antti.ilom...@gmail.com> > > We've been intending to do big region tests for a while now, > > it > > shouldn't actually be too difficult. The Naali viewer doesn't > > limit > > the region size and changing it in OpenSim is relatively easy > > as well. > > Terrain is a bit problematic since it doesn't scale, but you > > can > > generate a suitably large terrain mesh in Blender or Max for > > example. > > > > 2010/9/6 George van Zeeland <vanzeeland.geo...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Hi there. > > > > > > Pedro wrote: > > >> I'm sure it must be some legacy from opensimulator that > > regions can > > >> have just a size of 256x256m. But would'nt it be somehow > > great to have > > >> free definable region sizes > > > > > > A region is hosted on the grid and the grid is 1000x1000 so > > i guess it > > > might be posible to create a region as big as 1000x1000. > > > And i guess it would still be possible to have different > > (sort of > > > regions) by navigating on the hypergrid that allows > > navigation between > > > all the grids hosted on the open sim. > > > > > > Pedro worte: > > >> though it might then need bigger terrain textures maybe. > > > > > > This would be undesirable. > > > Not only would bigger ground textures (referring to higher > > resolution" > > > put a lot more pressure on you system rendering the texture, > > it would > > > also put more pressure on the bandwidth of your connection. > > If you > > > could create a region as big as 1000x1000 the to render > > ground patches > > > would still be 256x256 the don't stretch with the region > > land the > > > would just tile the same way over a bigger pice of land. > > > > > > Pedro wrote:> IMHO this would open up some great > > possibilities, > > > specially for bigger > > >> sceneries > > > > > > I doubt it one would benefit from having bigger regions, one > > of the > > > great advantages of heaving more than one region is that its > > possible > > > to set a new set of textures for every region. One big > > region would > > > mean one texture set for the complete scenery, and > > especially with > > > bigger scenes different texture sets are a great + If you > > like the > > > same textures blending the same way your first region does > > just copy > > > the settings. > > > > > > Perdo wrote: > > >> I don't have a clue if it's technically a miracle to make > > this happen, > > >> but i definitly know that the dev's here are achieving one > > miracle > > >> after the other. > > > Hell yes the are :)) > > > > > > Best regards George z. > > > > > > -- > > > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > > > http://www.realxtend.org > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > > http://www.realxtend.org > > > > > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > > http://www.realxtend.org > > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org > -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
