[Opensim-dev] Negative z values

[Mister Blue]

When I built BulletSim, I build for positive only altitudes because I
thought that was the rule. The only implementation reason I see for not
allowing negative terrain altitudes would be finding all the random places
where code makes sign assumptions.

If negative altitudes are needed, it would not be too hard to make it
happen. I can see the geographically oriented people wanting zero to be sea
level and allowing land to be above and below that.

-- mb


On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Cinder Roxley <
cinder.roxley at phoenixviewer.com> wrote:

> Given reasonable constraints, I don't see why viewers wouldn't be able to
> adapt to support variable depth. I'd certainly be willing to write a viewer
> patch if support cropped up.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:52 AM, David Saunders <abitar.com at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I wounder how hard it would be to modify varasm to allow a start and end
>> to the Z axes so we can stack a deep ocean and a space sim to the normal
>> sim :)
>>
>> But then again would the client handle all these changes? (partly do)
>>
>> So the solution is to make deep water simulators, But any test this? I
>> never been asked to set up any sims with deep water so I not experience
>> with "outside the box" water :)
>>
>> I was drawn to opensim with the idea of making "pure" space sims where
>> you can float around in real space but I dug into it and I would have to
>> rewrite so much code to do this and after that  would the client handle it?
>> So I stuck with making Moon simulators, Low gravity fixed sky....   This
>> was a long time ago,  back in the early days of opensim.
>>
>> Now times are changing, I think I might dig into doing it again since
>>  varasim allow you to make a 4096x4096x4096 regions :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> At 04:09 26/04/2014, drWhiet wrote:
>>>
>>>> even boat creators must keep an eye that the engine does not move below
>>>> -0
>>>>
>>>
>>> Remember the default water level is +20m (adjustable on a per region
>>> basis)... with a "normal" terrain base of 0m.
>>>
>>> Maybe its global warming in the metaverse that raised the sea level :-)
>>>
>>>
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