[Opensim-dev] Idea for 100% smooth region crossing

[Buckaroo Mu]

The one big hairy problem I see with this is physics. If I drive from 
one sim in another, and the road suddenly takes a dip/rise/dead-end in a 
building, what's to keep me from either "flying toward infinity" or 
falling right through the ground? Unless I'm mistaken, neighbor-sims 
known nothing about the physical items (or even non-physical, 
non-phantom items) across the border.

Let's take a for-instance. I'm sitting in a sim, and directly across the 
sim border is someone's store/home/office/whathaveyou. I walk across the 
border - and right through the back wall, ending up (potentially) where 
I shouldn't be - because there's also the issue of parcel entry 
permissions to look at.

On a more (potentially) disastrous example - I'm driving along in my 
physical vehicle, and cross the sim - straight into a hill, building, 
grandstand, etc. Suddenly, the sim I'm entering receives the handoff - 
and my physical vehicle is interpenetrating other prims. WHAM, into the 
sky I go.

My $0.02.

-Buckaroo Mu

Mircea Filipescu wrote:
> That wiki page describes what I meant very well, as well as the "soft 
> handover" system for cell phones. But is that possible in Opensim or 
> not? I think I heard a few people yesterday saying the client might 
> need to be modified as well to support this, although as far as I know 
> the client only connects / disconnects to / from a sim whenever that 
> sim tells it to, so this should be completely up to the server and 
> possible to have compatible with any SL client in existence.
>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:50:43 +0100
> > From: homerhorwitz at googlemail.com
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Idea for 100% smooth region crossing
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Lc <lcc1967 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > i used to write the "soft handover like" wiki for a "better sim 
> crossing"
> > > but the wiki page is gone.
> >
> > - Open http://opensimulator.org
> > - Search for "handover"
> > - Click link: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/A_better_SimCrossing
> >
> > Wiki-pages usually don't "go" without heavy DB editing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Homer
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