Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Thin Prims - Denied

Linden Labs has decided not to fix their bug that caused Prim.Docker to misalign prims with a dimension smaller than .05. It's a shame that they now consider it a feature request instead of a bug. Arbitrary changes like this are a contributing reason why Second Life has such difficulty in becoming an accepted ECommerce platform.

I'll quote from the relevant bug report at http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2741

Prospero Linden - April 21, 2009 - Changing this to a feature request. This is how things are designed right now-- there's a minimum size for the physics collision shape of prims, and the bounding box you get back for small prims reflects that. Changing this may break other content that depends on the minimum size.