A cool use case that comes to my mind immediately (but I don't know whether it's easy or not :-)) is the relocation of airboxes. I remember having to relocate a 10000+ prims airboxed city in SL, and it was a real pita. Moving all objects manually was out question because it would have been too time consuming, and mass-selecting 10000 prims is buggy, to say the least -- additionally, the viewers are very stupid in that respect, because mass selection does not select Linden plants and trees. I ended up by mass-selecting anyway, then manually moving up the airboxed city (which caused of course incredible lag), and then a lot of smaller objects had escaped the selection and had to be moved manually, etc.
It would be great if the load/save oar pair would allow for the following: 1) Saving everything in a sim between z1 and z2 meters (effectively storing one aixbox level only), and 2) Load the previous oar with an offset of z3 (i.e., all objects would get their previous z plus z3, which could be positive or negative). As I mentioned previously, I don't know if this falls under the "easy" case category or not :-) Indeed, once one starts to think in the direction of saving anything less than a whole sim, the relocation problem appears immediately. What if I save a building in a partial oar but I want to have it load-merged in a different position? Of course this can also be done with linksets, but large linksets tend to be unmanageable -- or with coalesced objects, but the same problem applies, and besides they are not currently implemented by Opensim. I think partial oars can fill a hole here, but at the price of implementing relocation in the load-merge operation (and possibly some form of z-rotation too). /Zonja On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Justin Clark-Casey < [email protected]> wrote: > > Cool easy things with real world use cases get highest priority :). And > of > course it's all dependent on what time I have available :) > >
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