[Opensim-dev] Ruth vs Gas Clouds: Bug or feature?

[Kyle Hamilton]

This falls into the category of "wishful thinking":

I'd rather see "clouds of gas" than some of the horribly-built furry
avatars I've seen. :)  (I'd also like to see an option to force others
to become clouds of gas -- that is, stop getting their animation
updates and the clothing/prims they have attached.)

If that could be a parcel-settable option, you could even have more
than 70 people in a sim for an in-world event without bogging down the
bandwidth and CPU of the server.  (Parcel sets which avatars are
visible, the rest become vague low-alpha 2D silhouettes.)

Aaaand I've been awake FAR too long.  My apologies.

-Kyle H

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Arthur Valadares
<arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone..
>
> I've been looking into a "bug" where if you get a brand new avatar and
> create pants, shirt, shape and skin and wear all of them, you turn into
> a gas cloud. After lot's of research, it seems this is "kind of"
> expected behavior. Let me try to explain what I think is happening.
>
> After SL Viewer 1.20, Ruth no longer existed. If you took off all
> wearables, you would now become a cloud of gas. Apparently, the viewer
> thinks that if you use all those 4 wearables without changing anything,
> you have become Ruth, and so you should now be a cloud of gas. If you
> make the 4 wearables, but change ANY parameter, you no longer become a
> cloud of gas . The thing is on OpenSim you start as Ruth, and not as a
> cloud of gas! Which is kind of confusing that the viewer thinks you
> become Ruth when you're actually trying not to.
>
> So I wanted to gather some ideas on how to circumvent this, if my
> assumptions are correct, or get corrected otherwise. I can only think of
> creating default clothing, like Second Life does.
>
> Thanks all!
>
>
> --
> Arthur Valadares <arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
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