[Opensim-users] Graphic question: View distance (more than 1 region?)

[Mic Bowman]

You cannot get this effect through server "configuration" but you can hack
two routines that determine adjacent regions to increase view distance to
more than immediately adjacent regions. We used this to get 10x10 regions
viewed in the yellowstone regions of sciencesim (10x10 was the max that the
viewer could handle). However... the code to manage connections to neighbor
regions is pretty "brittle" so the technique really only works well when you
have an isolated "island" of regions and want to expose all of them.

--mic


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:42 AM, jabbaah <jabba at annuna.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> As I could not find anything about this topic on google I'd like to post my
> question here.
>
> OpenSim gives us the opportunity to model complete landscapes spread over
> several regions.
> And many ppl do so as cost for one or more regions is substantially lower
> as in Second Life.
>
> Prerequisites:
> - Setting view distance of viewer (Imprudence used) to 512 meters
>
> First test in Second Life (Mainland):
> - Can view 512 meters - meaning about 3 regions far:
>  1st region: the one I am currently in
>  2nd region: the direct neighbour region
>  3rd region: the region behind the neighbor (can view only partly / 512
> meters)
>
> Second test in OSGrid (same client / viewer, same configuration as above):
> - Can only view 2 regions far:
>  1st region: the one I am currently in
>  2nd region: the direct neighbour region
> - not depending on the region being hosted on the same sim or not (same
> behaviour)
>
> Can this behaviour be changed by tweaking some (server side) configuration?
> If not, is it planned to increase the viewing distance to more than one
> region in the neighbourhood?
>
> Thanks and greetings to everyone ;-)
> jabbaah / Stefan
>
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