Fowabo 0 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 is water considered a prim? Link to post Share on other sites
Theresa Tennyson 4,700 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Fowabo wrote: is water considered a prim? SL "water" is an non-physical plane that viewers create at a certain elevation above level "0" - most of the time it's at elevation 20 but that can be changed by the owner of the estate. It has no land impact and can't really be interacted with except with tricks triggered by the elevation you're at. If you are below this elevation you will see the world with an "underwater" visual scheme and if you fly below this level you'll use a swimming animation. Boats are scripted to move at the level of the water plane as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Amethyst Jetaime 1,582 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 FYI There is such a thing as prim water too. This water is made using a a regular prim, sculpted prim or mesh, water textures, plus a texture animation script. You typically use prim water for bodies of water that are above the sim water line. Example pools, mountain lakes, ponds, fountains etc. Link to post Share on other sites
ChinRey 6,513 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 "Linden Water" is part of the Windlight atmospheric system. One of the features of WIndlight is a spheric mesh "screen" surrounding your camera. The water surface, the sky, the clouds etc. are simply a "movie" generated by your viewer and projected onto that screen. The underwater murkiness is generated by another part of WIndlight system. Light settings are simply altered when your camera is below the predefined water level for the sim. As Amethyst said, you can make your own water simulation from prims or sculpts or mesh but only Linden Water offers a reflecting surface and different light settings above and below the water level. Link to post Share on other sites
Bobbie Faulds 284 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Basically, when you look out at the edge of a sim and see water, that's Linden water. You can also see Linden water if the land level is below the set water level for that sim. Link to post Share on other sites
HughJegow 0 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 hijklmno Link to post Share on other sites
Bobbie Faulds 284 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Linden water always flows east to west too, btw Link to post Share on other sites
HughJegow 0 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Bobbie Faulds wrote: Linden water always flows east to west too, btw There is no East or West in SL, merely Left and Right. Link to post Share on other sites
Bobbie Faulds 284 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Look at your map...it is marked with N, S, E and W, more for convenience for indicating where things are since that is what we are used to. Of course, since it's a virtual world, there is no magnetic north to work from. Link to post Share on other sites
Fowabo 0 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Thanks for the replys. Learning something new everyday. Link to post Share on other sites
HughJegow 0 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Bobbie Faulds wrote: Look at your map...it is marked with N, S, E and W, more for convenience for indicating where things are since that is what we are used to. Of course, since it's a virtual world, there is no magnetic north to work from. Since it's a digital virtual world the concepts of East and West have no validity whatsoever. Link to post Share on other sites
kiramanell 7,076 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 "As Amethyst said, you can make your own water simulation from prims or sculpts or mesh but only Linden Water offers a reflecting surface and different light settings above and below the water level." Actually, you *can* create true reflective water, these days, using (bump &) specular maps of the new materials. Most of my skyhomes with pools I upgraded to this newer, fancier water. Linden water is still the best, though; but naturally not available at will at all heights. Link to post Share on other sites
Arkady Arkright 1 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 It's a *virtual* world - no concepts have any validity, that's the whole point. Link to post Share on other sites
Coby Foden 16,305 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 HughJegow wrote: Bobbie Faulds wrote: Look at your map...it is marked with N, S, E and W, more for convenience for indicating where things are since that is what we are used to. Of course, since it's a virtual world, there is no magnetic north to work from. Since it's a digital virtual world the concepts of East and West have no validity whatsoever. Since they (N, S, E, W) actually are defined in the SL world map, they do have validity in SL. When going sailing in SL, for expample - it's convenient use the same direction names which are used in the real world, instead of referring to map directions as: Up, Down, Right, Left. Since SL is a 3D world Up and Down literally mean going up (↑) and going down (↓). It would be silly to use Up and Down as map derictions too. Thus N, S, E, W are a very good choice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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