Correct, but most often a thick horizontal plane centered on your avatar's altitude is considered the most critical area. This volume is supposed to be indicated by the dots being round instead of triangular, thus giving the vertical filtering while the circles give the horizontal. I admit that just changing the shape of the dots is most likely not enough - if they changed brightness, and maybe hue or alpha, as well it would be clearer who's in the same thick plane.
I say "supposed to be indicated by" because of the now well-known issues with resolving coarse altitude differences above about 1km... Ricky Cron Stardust On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Zai Lynch < i_really_needed_a_new_mail...@gmx.de> wrote: > Well, I don't know either about these circles. I only read about them in > this thread, though it seems they're supposed to indicate if someone is in > chat range or not. Though a circle won't indicate that, since SL is 3 > dimensional. If someone appears to be in chat range on the mini map, they > might not be, as chat range is a sphere, not a circle. > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Lance Corrimal > <lance.corri...@eregion.de>wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 12:27:40 schrieb Oz Linden: >> >> > No... the user experience folks decided that the minimap was confusing >> > enough and that the circles made it worse. >> >> says a lot about those folks ;) >> >> > As punishment, we assigned it to them to find a better solution :-) >> >> I like the sound of that. >> >> That being said, has anyone ever seen a member of the user experience team >> inworld? >> >> >> bye, >> LC >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > @ZaiLynch <http://www.twitter.com/ZaiLynch> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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