Talk:What's Changed With Havok4

Need LSL method to monitor LOD changes

As someone who builds lots of complex machines with spinning wheels, rotors, impellers, and so forth, it is completely unacceptable for the LOD to degrade from a cylinder to a cube since this will immediately jam the device where the newly formed cube corners are overlapping where the cylinder was curved.

Frequently I am building objects that closely gap the tolerance spacing between objects, and suddenly swapping to a cube shape will only make the collisions completely wrong and even worse until the object explodes.

I need the ability to detect these physics LOD changes on the per-prim level so that the scripts driving the impellers, etc, can know there's a problem and can self-deactivate and go non-physical until the LOD goes back up to normal.

This isn't a bug necessarily so it's probably not appropriate to post on the JIRA.

Scalar Tardis 18:58, 28 September 2007 (PDT)