[Opensim-users] Rectangular holes in the terrain

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:37:39 -0500, "Frank W Sweet"
<fwsweet at backintyme.com> said:
> This is just an oddity that I have noticed. It happens in all SVNs.
> Come to thinkof it, it also happens in Linden's SL.
> 
> Sometimes when an avatar TPs into its home region, there are large
> rectangular holes in the terain. If you walk up to one of the huge
> rectangular holes in the land you can look down and see water way down
> there. Large prims are also sometimes invisible (building roofs,
> monument bases) after a TP. It is not a serious problem because other
> avatars in the same place see things normally, and relogging usually
> fixes it.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why this happens? Like I said, it sometimes
> happens in SL too.

I only get this temporarily while a sim rezzes, and only quite rarely.
It seems to me to simply be slow rezzing of the terrain, likely affected
by dropped packets.
wow.. wondering how to make it more general and less hard-coded is making my head hurt. that's a good sign that it's my code