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Macacos e Demónios « — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:57:48 +0000

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By: Melissa Yeuxdoux

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:55:20 +0000

Very neat… now, once they get scripts to run with the C# bytecode, things will really be nice.

I just hope there’s a good Open Source physics engine that can be slid underneath in place of the proprietary Havok engine.

By: Ananda

Ananda — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:23:32 +0000

In terms of implications… perhaps the biggest would be *if* (and this is a big if) the simulator load is reduced enough for average use conditions that Linden Lab is able to host a great many more sims on a single server. You mentioned yourself a couple of months back that this appears to be the biggest bottleneck for them, rather than bandwidth or storage capacity.

Could the day of affordable private simulator space finally be arriving?

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:53:38 +0000

Wow, thanks for that video… it starts to look like SL is really coming close to what the competing graphic engines were able to do 3-4 years ago

By: Shiny Life

Shiny Life — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:50:24 +0000

Fun with Physics…

insert ‘ball’ joke here

I spent a few hours last night on the Second Life Beta grid testing the new Havok4 Physics engine. Super fun! I meant to do some sort of serious testing, but I ended up just rolling a bunch of balls down a …

By: Vlad Bjornson

Vlad Bjornson — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:49:39 +0000

I'm having a blast experimenting with Havok4 on the Beta Grid. The performance is a big leap over the old system. The sphere prims are especially interesting in that there is no .01 meter gap between them. It really adds to the realism factor. Even with 1500 physical boxes all crashing together the sim was going about it's business, with just a momentary dip in the physics performance. You can see a video of my experiments here: Fun with Havok4 Physics

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:04:01 +0000

Anony Mouse, well, you could download the Beta… and create physical objects like crazy Unlike what you might expect, the sims will not crash, and it’s at least true that the behaviour on the Beta Grid is, indeed, quite different from the one on the Main Grid, so something was changed there!

Hell’s definitely cooler if not actually frozen

By: Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:53:17 +0000

I’m not so much in a state of denial as a “let’s wait and see” mode. Mainly because practically everything that LL has come up with and hailed as wonderful and terrific etc etc etc have been completely bogus and have ended causing us more and more lag.

While this does look and sound promising, it is, by no means something I’m taking for granted.

Anony Mouse
“Show me…”

By: Ashcroft Burnham

Ashcroft Burnham — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:51:34 +0000

Maybe we’ll be all be able to play virtual bowls in a few months’ time…

By: Bromo Ivory

Bromo Ivory — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:16:00 +0000

Oh I am in denial, too.

I mean, what will I do when lag is reduced and physical objects move in believable ways – my life will be empty, as I won’t have the physics engine to complain about… I will be forced to wander around with a modicum of contentment.

This will have far reaching effects – Griefers won’t be able to crash SIMs as easily, either – so we will have to think about them and their needs, too.

And … I am checking a weather report in Hell, because I am suspecting what you titled your entry …

(All in all a good thing if they can pull it off)