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Hi Starchild Shoppers! Some of you have recently given me feedback in terms of the scattered of the stores - which I was thinking about already.
Question is:
If I were to combine all stores in one region - which LAYOUT would work best for you?
A big mall on ground like @hertha201 's SilverFox Mall? Several TP-connected levels like R. Lion or @Pilar 's Tierra de Volcanes? LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!
Hi Starchild Shoppers! Some of you have recently given me feedback in terms of the scattered of the stores - which I was thinking about already.
Question is:
If I were to combine all stores in one region - which LAYOUT would work best for you?
A big mall on ground like @hertha201 's SilverFox Mall? Several TP-connected levels like R. Lion or @Pilar 's Tierra de Volcanes? LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!
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I think the most important things to consider are keeping lag low and making sure it's easy to get to the different sections and know which is which. I can't count the number of huge malls that lack any sort of method to the madness and although wandering around can be great fun I would still rather know where to find the things I came to find. Apart from that I would say: let your imagination run wild, we already know you are oozing with creativity so I'm sure it will be awesome.
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Parallel question: Do you folks find any value on things like furniture have a demo rezzed? It does impact the load too.
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I do like to see the item, but having everything rezzed out is normally horrible for performance. In second life years ago I had a vendor that had the option to temp on rez the item on request before buying it. It even slowly rotated the object if desired too. It was a bit annoying to setup though. Not sure if there is anything like that already in OS.
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I think I could get ChatGPT to do that....Rez a copy of the object inside of it, on-click, and delete it after X time....mmm. Doesn't sound too complex for what I have asked chatGPT to do...
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I think the vendor I had allowed you to cycle trough different items using arrow buttons and had a rez and buy button. You had to name the item and the display texture the same name and it would rez out the item and give you a menu telling you to move the object to the location you wanted and to select if you want the item to rotate or not. once saved it would rez out the item relative to the vendors position and rotation. I think it had a config note card for setting the prices, but that is probably not needed here.
chat GPT can do some quite useful stuff after a lot of iterations. I have made it make me some stuff I would never have been able to script myself. It helps to know a bit about scripting so you can tell it a better method if its going down the wrong path.
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chat GPT can do some quite useful stuff after a lot of iterations. I have made it make me some stuff I would never have been able to script myself. It helps to know a bit about scripting so you can tell it a better method if its going down the wrong path.
While having everything on one level makes exploring easier, it often causes horrible a frame rate and makes the experience less enjoyable. Having to load all the textures/objects at the same time tends to make browsing more difficult as you will have many blurry textures waiting to load in.
Having smaller sections separated out of sight from each other helps to improve the frame rate and makes moving about a much nicer experience. Not having so many textures trying to fight for memory and thus loading times will be better. The downside is you have to have a good TP system that clearly tells people where and what is at the different locations.
My personal preference is to be able to explore without feeling like a lag pit and to see everything loaded in properly. Some malls get so bogged down with too many items that the viewer starts chugging and even using the camera becomes hard. Just assume everyone is using a potato for a PC and go easy on the polygons and amount of texture in sight at any one time and I'm sure whatever you come up with will be great.
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Having smaller sections separated out of sight from each other helps to improve the frame rate and makes moving about a much nicer experience. Not having so many textures trying to fight for memory and thus loading times will be better. The downside is you have to have a good TP system that clearly tells people where and what is at the different locations.
My personal preference is to be able to explore without feeling like a lag pit and to see everything loaded in properly. Some malls get so bogged down with too many items that the viewer starts chugging and even using the camera becomes hard. Just assume everyone is using a potato for a PC and go easy on the polygons and amount of texture in sight at any one time and I'm sure whatever you come up with will be great.
Yes, my thinking exactly. R. Lion does that very well in terms of separating each section from enough draw distance so it doesn't take a toll on load time.
I'm thinking maybe a box for landing (so people have time to literally rezz their asses), then something at ground level (maybe skins) and levels.
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I'm thinking maybe a box for landing (so people have time to literally rezz their asses), then something at ground level (maybe skins) and levels.