Linkability Rules

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Max distance has been raised from 54m to 64m as of 2023/06/27. Update was announced here. Tech Updates Server Release 2023.06

New Linkability Rule

The linkability rule for objects changed as of Dec 2010. The main motivation was to make the linkability check more efficient but a consequence is that they are also much simpler. The size-dependency of the prims has been discarded. The only thing that matters is the bounding sphere of the collection of prim centers. The linkability rule can be written as:

 LINKABLE = D < 54  AND  N ≤ 256
 where D = diameter of the smallest bounding sphere of the collection of prim centers
 and N = number of prims in the collection

Andrew Linden 21:47, 02 December 2010 (UTC)

If you are interested in how the old formula worked, see Linkability Rules/Havok 4.

Notes

  • [2011-08-27-16:52] Andrew Linden: 54 was the minimum sphere that still contained all of the legacy linkable content.