<p dir="ltr">I said the same thing on IRC Oren i also thing that ODE must support var before this happens.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2015 1:37 AM, "Oren Hurvitz" <<a href="mailto:orenh@kitely.com">orenh@kitely.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Strong -1.<div><br></div><div>Varregions don't support ODE, therefore megaregions must remain.</div><div><br></div><div>It's important to keep support for ODE because it has significant benefits over BulletSim:</div><div><br></div><div>Most importantly, ODE has consistently good performance, whereas BulletSim sometimes gets into pathological states where it consumes extremely high CPU and makes every avatar in the simulator freeze in place. I reported this bug here: <a href="http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6789#c26617" target="_blank">http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6789#c26617</a> , but it's still happening (I checked again last month). This is a huge problem and it's the reason Kitely still uses ODE as the default physics engine. (We provide BulletSim as an option, but we warn users against using it.)</div><div><br></div><div>Second, BulletSim has some strange behavior that ODE doesn't. E.g., in BulletSim my avatar can walk vertically up some large prims! That doesn't happen with ODE.</div><div><br></div><div>Third, some users prefer ODE's behavior, and they have many scripts that are fine-tuned for ODE. Switching to BulletSim would kill their scripts.</div><div><br></div><div>If Varregions supported ODE then it would be ok to eliminate megaregions. But until that happens, megaregions are important and need to remain.</div><div><br></div><div>Oren</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Diva Canto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>Yeah, don't worry, there's no rush.
      We'll wait for people's input. Eventually support for megaregions
      will be dropped. The question is whether to drop it on the next
      release or wait a few more months.<div><div><br>
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      On 9/4/2015 4:29 PM, Nicky Perian wrote:<br>
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        <div>Diva,</div>
        I don't have any technical input but, I don't think a complete
        input cannot be provided by posting this at the beginning of a 3
        day holiday weekend in the US. Hopefully, a decision will not be
        made over this weekend.
        <div>Nicky</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:34 PM,
          R.Gunther <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rigun@rigutech.nl" target="_blank">rigun@rigutech.nl</a>></span>
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              <div>Yes, am fine with it when it get removed. it's not
                good.<br>
                But i expect some people that get sad because the still
                say megaregions work betetr and use that.<br>
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                But Kill it ! :)
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                    On 2015-09-05 00:29, Trinity wrote:<br>
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                      <div>KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!<br>
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                        5:00 PM, Diva Canto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a>></span>
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                          We're cleaning up a few things in the code,
                          and came across megaregions. Now that we have
                          varregions, there is a strong will among core
                          devs to remove support for megaregions,
                          because they were just a temporary hack for
                          when viewers didn't understand spaces greater
                          than 256m. Now that they do, the hack seems
                          unnecessary moving forward. Megaregions
                          implementation is contrived and makes a lot
                          code unnecessarily complicated.<br>
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                          Any objections to its removal?<br>
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                          Diva<br>
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