Certain objects don't appear after you are a certain distance away from them?

[Markett Batista]

Hello everyone, I am not entirely sure where to put this thread at , or even the best way to word this so ill do my best. Here is the the thing, I have been watching a lot of football games (SFL American style football) And the sim the fans stands are in are in a seperate sim about 200m away from the field to reduce lag for the players.  Now when watching the game, you can see the football in the players hand, but once the ball is thrown into the air...you can't see it from a distance, even if you have your draw distance turned all the way up. Im sure this is a limitation of second life and was wondering if anyone knew a way to make the ball appear at any distance? I hope I explained the situation enough.

[Peewee Musytari]

Unfortunately no, it is because of the size of the ball. Small objects at a distance will not show even if, as you say, you have your draw distance maxed out. Pretty much anything the size of a regular default prim cube or smaller.

[Ceera Murakami]

LOD Culling makes most small things vanish at a distance. A football isn't going to be visible from very far away.

You might try linking a phantom, 100% transparent sphere to the football, and making that sphere much bigger. Scripts can make the linked prim intangible, and if the whole linkset is something like 5 to 10 meters in diameter, you might still see it at a distance. That will probably play hell with the ball's physics properties, though.

[Markett Batista]

Ah ok I see, so there is no way to de activate this? Or maybe a certain viewer that can let it be seen? I have no idea how this works by the way. I can't exactly change the prim itself because the league isn't owned by me.

[Void Singer]

unfortunately, no... the culling of objects by size is a function of the server.... there have been multiple complaints about recent changes to this.... including objects that are under 64m away.

[Pamela Galli]

What kind of complaints, Void, and how recent were the changes?  Often I will turn around and half the store will be gone until I relog.

[Void Singer]

recent as of earlier this year... they had reduced it. and the annoying thing I found was that it depended on which direction it was in from where you were standing.... or perhaps how far from the region center... I never could tell.... but the same  objects were getting culled at different distances depending on where you were standing in relation to it.

[Peewee Musytari]

If you walk away from a regualar prim box or poseballs etc they will vanish at around 64m, but if you walk back towards them you won`t see them again until they are less than 50m away.

An avatar won`t be visible unless its under 500m away.