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Only System avatars are permitted. This illustration details the types of items you may wear on your avatar. The Park Ranger will eject anyone not in compliance.
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16 years I've been making amusement parks in SL & OS and I was excited to finally see someone else entering the amusement park arena in Opensim....but...the rules here are paranoid & ridiculous. Mesh avatars have a very negligible impact on sim performance, certainly not enough of an impact to ban them outright. Having your "park ranger" not even give someone rezzing in a chance to read the rules, let alone comply before not just being ejected, but outright disconnected, is very heavy handed & frankly, a total turn off. I was interested in seeing this & your other regions but I am not going to go change my entire avatar to suit some paranoid rule.
Take it from someone that's been doing this for 16 years & has owned a game development firm for nearly 30 - Calm Down. Seriously. Calm. Down. I get it. You don't want people to cheat & you don't want your stuff to lag BUT the User Experience is ALL. When you create a hostile atmosphere (park ranger) from the instant someone rezzes in, it kills the fun & puts the user on edge. It also drags them OUT of the experience & that is the opposite of what you want. Just my $0.02. Maybe one day I'll get bored enough to change into a 2004 avatar and try this again but well, I think I said that a few years ago when it launched too. It's 2024. Mesh is a thing. Deal with it & code accordingly. There are better ways of checking if someone is running unauthorized scripts....very, very, simple ways to do that. Look into a personal script scanner & go from there ;)
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Take it from someone that's been doing this for 16 years & has owned a game development firm for nearly 30 - Calm Down. Seriously. Calm. Down. I get it. You don't want people to cheat & you don't want your stuff to lag BUT the User Experience is ALL. When you create a hostile atmosphere (park ranger) from the instant someone rezzes in, it kills the fun & puts the user on edge. It also drags them OUT of the experience & that is the opposite of what you want. Just my $0.02. Maybe one day I'll get bored enough to change into a 2004 avatar and try this again but well, I think I said that a few years ago when it launched too. It's 2024. Mesh is a thing. Deal with it & code accordingly. There are better ways of checking if someone is running unauthorized scripts....very, very, simple ways to do that. Look into a personal script scanner & go from there ;)
System avatars are not only a requirement, it is PART of the user experience which was envisioned when the park started development several years ago... The description page makes it perfectly clear what the requirements for entry are. Even the employees wear system avatars and they are MISERABLE. The park is appropriately named and the edicts are strictly enforced per the brochure. Cheers.
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Being ejected & having my viewer crash is part of the "user experience"? Sounds more like griefing to me. Guess I'll move on. Was hoping to help you improve your parks as someone that's pretty much the resident expert on the subject but if your intent is for people to not visit, well done!
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This could have been avoided if you took the time to READ the description on this site and in the HGSafari article. Our edicts are strictly enforced by scripts using OSSL code that is built into Opensimulator, so how is that griefing when I am using commands approved by Opensim developers? I make no apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. The theme park does it's job well and entertains a small niche looking for something different. I DO NOT need your advice on how to make my park better when your fair is not even open to the public. Opensim is FREE but NOT a FREE-For-All. At Dismayland, guests use it my way or they hit the highway.
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Male system avatars are easier to make look good than female ones but in either case, low complexity meshed avatars should really have little impact on the servers. Where mesh or even prim hair makes a difference is to other avatars nearby so that in a low concurrent region, it really would make little difference whether the visitors wear system or prim/mesh clothing for the load on the region server.
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There are other reasons for the SYSTEM avatar FEATURE. This discourages cheating the health algorithm, if we were to allow any attachment to be worn, vehicle scripts could be placed inside which would still work even though scripts are not permitted. This makes it harder for miscreants to use malicious workarounds.
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Ok though I remember the Zombie game in Osgrid had a script detection feature where one could not wear any sort of script on the playing field or it simply wouldn't allow one to play. So must be ways to prevent that even with prim or mesh attachments.. That isn't to argue with the system avatar requirement but I do like what you are testing because I am very interested in knowing how much load mesh actually places on a server and hope to hear your thoughts on it once you try both types of avatars.
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The system avatar "feature" was always part of the plan from the very beginning. Originally, I wanted to have everyone exploring the sim in "hazmat suits" which would automatically be attached to the avatar upon landing but that would require full script access for them to function and that opened the door to other problems with avatars not being able to properly sit in the rides. It got to a point where things were becoming over-complicated so I had to trim out some of the extra "fluff". I heard of the zombie game you mentioned but never tried it.
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Is it considered HIGH TREASON to make a THEMED simulator and use scripted agents to enforce it? The people who actually came to visit Dismayland could understand why this FEATURE is implemented. Not everyone will want to participate in this living work of art and I am OK with that. There are several VALID reasons for doing this, mostly to ensure the best lag-free experience for all!
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I use a classic avatar. I try to keep my complexity down. I wear mesh hair and combinations of system and mesh. That should be good enough, but if it isn't, well, ya'll have fun!
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Kudos to you, If everyone were mindful about their appearance, that would not be an issue. It takes real skill to make a system avatar look good and unfortunately few people wish to put in that effort. When Dismayland went on the drawing board 3 years ago the "system avatar rule" was part of the plan and I intend to keep it that way throughout the beta test. I will re-evaluate this once the park comes out of Beta when all of the REAL COOL things (like ride mishaps and breakage) are implemented.
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Every time I think about switching to a mesh avatar, I just can't bring myself to do it. I have tweaked my shape many times over the years, and honestly, another avatar just wouldn't feel normal for me. I really want to visit you and check out your hard work, so perhaps I will lose my mesh pointy ears and put on some flexi hair, that should be fine, and wear an outfit that is system only, I have plenty of those. I understand completely the why of the rules and support you 100%. No one looks pretty when riding something that distorts their face into an ugly scream anyway. :D
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Gawrsh people... it's not like y'all have to go around every day in Open Sim, stuck in system avi hell. (You think that's bad... don't deal with the SL Mesh gatekeepers, they're much worse. Anyway...)
OK, that said I think this is a worthy sim to spend some free time in, if you aren't easily offended and looking to have some silly fun + ride a few rollercoasters. I'll be back... watch your health meter LOL
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OK, that said I think this is a worthy sim to spend some free time in, if you aren't easily offended and looking to have some silly fun + ride a few rollercoasters. I'll be back... watch your health meter LOL
Thanks so much for helping me to squash some bugs to improve the user experience! I am pleased you enjoyed what you got to see. There is plenty more to tickle your funny bone =D
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Obviously.... you can do what you like on your own place, but just my 2p worth.... if avatars have to look like the're from 2004, does it matter that the "place" looks great if everyone visiting looks like that? System hair?? Shudders........
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As stated in the brochure, it is all part of the user experience =D It is Dismayland not Happyland LOL
The female park employees all have system hair, and it can be made to look decent enough for this application.
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The female park employees all have system hair, and it can be made to look decent enough for this application.
The sim is very script and mesh heavy, I tried my best to optimize all assets for faster load times. System avatars cost fewer resources to draw and less load on the server.
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