reviewing GUI of importer and Object editor

[Gaia Clary]

Hi.

Nyx has asked to do another review of the GUI. I started a Jira and added a few propositions for enhancements. Please feel free to add or discuss in that Jira: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CTS-664

 

[Vivienne Daguerre]

Well done.

Right now if I check Edit Linked and select one mesh (or prim, or scupty) that is part of an object made of linked parts, it does not show me the PE weight for that linked part, just the total PE for the whole object.

Is it just me? Is there some setting I missed?

[Drongle McMahon]

Nyx said that the PE was calculated at the linkset level. It is not the same as the sum of the components once they are unlinked. So there isn't really such a thing as a PE for each component.

[arton Rotaru]

:matte-motes-shocked:

[Vivienne Daguerre]

It is important to me. I really want to be able to see what a mesh is costing as part of a linkset. The only way I can do that now is to unlink it and note the difference in PE. I know a mesh will count as 2 prims minimum by itself. If linked, it might count as .5 or .78 or whatever. I want to know.

[Drongle McMahon]

I suppose they could do the calculation of what the linkset PE would be wiothout the selected prim, subtract that from the whole linkset PE and tell you that. They could call it the marginal cost. They still wouldn't add up to the whole linkset cost though. The trouble is that the effects of each component are context-dependent. For example, suppose you had a component with a large physics cost that caused the linkset physics cost to dominate. Then removing some other components with "None" physics shape type would not change the linkset PE. So they would have a marginal cost of 0. But if you removed the high physics cost component, so that the streaming cost now dominated, the same ones that were 0 now contribute to the cost after all.