Megaprims

For a long time I avoided using megaprims. These are the large (huge) prims from the past that came to be due to a loophole in Second Life. Used to be that the client was the one that enforced the prim limits of 10 meters. So that means that if a modified client allowed the user to go beyond those limits, the server would happily accept them.

Linden Labs corrected this eventually by putting the checks in the server. So no new megaprims could be created. But there was still the problem of the existing ones. Should Linden make them disappear? Many people had used them in builds. And people hate when the walls of their hard worked builds disappear. Or the floors! So Linden came to a compromise. No new megaprims could be built. But existing ones could stay.

Now megaprims could also be a nuisance. If I didn't like you as a neighbor I could put a huge prim on my land that blocked your path around your house in the next lot. Maybe even in the next sim. Or blocked your view of your own beach. Or they could be a wonderful tool for the griefer, sending huge wheels to run down everyone at your event. In addition, there were cases where really huge prims could cause problems for the rendering or physics engines.

So Linden made a set of rules that went with the prims. The main ones are:

1. You can't change the size of a megaprim. If you do, the regular rules apply again and it's truncated to 10 meters max per side.
   
   
2. Any part that's off your land becomes phantom.
   
   
3. You can't link them with other prims.
   

Some others, but those were the biggies The rules made me kind of uncomfortable using the megas. In addition, I felt that Linden merely tolerated them rather than supported them. What if policy changed in the future?

But one day I was browing through Xstreet and came accross a free set of megaprims. I figured no cost and it might be fun to try. This was the Huge Prims set from Paola Delpaso.

I was so impressed! I immediatly chided myself for not trying them before. What a great building tool. I had specnt so much time in the past lining up many, many (,many!) prims in a row to create areas that were really in my mind one object, just broken into 10 meter sections. I was hooked in no time.

I went back to and picked up 329 Megaprims from Ceera Murakami and Parcel-Sized Prims Collection 0.5 from Day Oh, both also free.

If you haven't played with megaprims, give them a try. You'll be glad you did. And stay awake for any plans to remove them so you can put in your $0.02.

I erected a single very tall prim on my dock. here's some shots to try to give a sense of scale. I start standing by it on the dock. Then go and stand on the top in the clouds. One prim!









--Drawdweeb Latte-