The other option for a view distance beyond 1 neighbor region is a 'megaregion'. It's more complicated to set up, however, and has some known border crossing issues out of the megaregion that place your avatar in strange places. Using a megaregion, you get to see all of the region segments that make up the megaregion at the same time up to your viewer's set draw distance and far clipping plane. I think the viewer has a hard far clipping plane that is 2500 meters. You can see this visually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmkJ1EJxCJc when looking at the video, bare in mind that it's 4 regions wide and 32 regions long or 1024mx8192m.
For more information on MegaRegions, whitestar, zonja and a few other people wrote up: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Setting_Up_Mega-Regions Regards Teravus On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Mic Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
