There was some talk lately about draw distance. i mentioned that from my place if i have my draw distance turned up over about 150 i can almost count on crashing when i tp. i'm really sorry i can't describe the problem any better than that. If someone wants to tell me how i could understand it better, i'd love to listen?
Anyway, i mentioned in mail to this list that it would be really cool if there were an onscreen widget like the movement & camera controls that made draw distance a lot easier to change. Please forgive me for not having already figured out how to do that myself. Just sayin' tho, it would be really nice if, like for instance, Snowglobe had either a mouse gesture, keyboard short cut, or onscreen widget (all three?) for rapidly, easily changing draw distance, i think it's a function that lots of people would use heavily. i know there's performance concerns, but if, for instance, the onscreen widget included a simple performance bar indicator that went down as the draw distance was turned up, that would communicate pretty well to all the people who didn't know better for whatever reason. The tp crash i get is just one more reason to make the setting easy to deal with. Besides, to me it seems like such a natural part of camera controls that i don't know why it's not there already? If it was me adding the feature i'd put it in the camera controls widget. i'd been using SL for several months before i even realized that draw distance was configurable. Thanks for listening! _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
