...essentially what has been done there is to recreate the 4x4 she was previously using as an 8x8 megaregion with the almost sole aim of acquiring more water for sailing. The scripts, textures, mesh etc worked perfectly OK in the 4x4 version of Tessiner - I know as I've done a lot of work there thi...

I've no idea how MegaWorlds load (nor even how Opensim loads, for that matter), but it's been my experience that if ones viewer is overwhelmed, the Draw Distance is too high. A world may have tens of thousands of assets, but to my understanding the viewer doesn't load all of those at once (correct m...

A person I've known for years finally got her PHD in Education, using our virtual worlds as her primary experience examples for her dissertation. She is specializing in using virtual worlds to advance educational needs with a focus on consulting with firms in integrating virtual activity into their ...

I took some tests on Kitely again today at about noon-thirty. Texture-from-inventory loading time was back up to 15 seconds average again... which verifies the erratic and inconsistent nature of this beast. As stated prior there were extreme ends of the bell curve. Very occasionally a texture would ...

I'm no expert in Opensim, but I do own my own server system and I can verify Ilan's statements about watching your assets and scripts. I run two 5x5 VARs with about 5k scripts each and 80k to 95k prims. The reason for such is that I wanted to see just how much I could cram onto a VAR using a dedicat...

To assist in verification, I ran some additional tests today. Same test... very different conditions. On prior tests I went into three different grids (including Kitely) at a draw distance of 32m, into a sandbox area. I also included the Kitely Merchant Sandbox, which is for all purposes an "empty w...

Thank you Snoots. One comment about what you said. I think people who reuse meshes and textures can definitely build a city using the allotted 150K prim quota. It's important to remember that we don't use Land Impact in Kitely so 150K prims could potentially be 150K complex meshes. In other words, ...

I was asked to post my dwagony opinion here, so am doing so in the interest of harmony, efficiency, and scoring cookies. MegaWorlds are wonderful for people who need 1) More land or 2) More ocean. If one owns a ship sailing group, the advantages are obvious. If you love widespread forests it's fores...

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I ran some quick tests on Merchant's sandbox tonight. Didn't take very long. In all intances of testing, textures rezzed as follows: #1: 1024x512 2.3 seconds #2: 256x128 1.5 seconds #3: 512x512 1.6 seconds #4: 1024x512 2 seconds #5: 1024x1024 1.5 seconds #6: 512x256 1.5 seconds #7: 1024x1024 2.75 se...