Hey Avatar – Don’t Be A Sim Hog
You probably have been one. We all have. Here is how to tell if you are and prepare not to be before an event. It also makes you care more about the performance of what you create and buy.
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December 9, 2008 at 1:30 pm
[...] a lot of time helping friends and a few customers including a new quick video tutorial about how not to be a sim hog. I did that after realizing that your overall CPU cost is added to the cost cost of ‘top [...]
December 17, 2008 at 9:02 pm
isn’t the “rendering” mentioned in “Avatar Rendering Cost” all done by the clients and not by the sim?
December 17, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Very good question Tigro, I would really love to see the algorithm behind the calculation but I know that at least a good portion of it is scripts you have running in attachments and those are all server-side. I know that one for a fact because I discovered this while noticing Top Offender scripts going up while wearing a scripted object (and nothing more) and then comparing that to the ARC, which did go up by about the same amount. Obviously particles, sculpties, textures, and prim count hits the client though and those also increment the ARC but have nothing to do with the server as I understand it. Maybe linden will post, or has posted, the basis of that calculation. Even without though, it is a safe keeping in the green or yellow will help everyone, client or server side. I once added animation to a texture on a skybox where it wasn’t there before and it was enough to crash an already stressed client of a friend. Removing it fixed. So I suppose keeping other people’s clients from having to render all our beautiful avatars is something to consider, which is further supported by Linden’s adding ‘ghost’ icons in place of full renders to the client.
December 16, 2009 at 1:04 pm
[...] Why? Because that hair or whatever took your ARC from an acceptable 200 to 2000. Maybe you learned what ARC is at the time. If not, just know that having a high ARC generally means you are hard for others to [...]