PRIM PHYSICS SHAPE TYPE

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Wiki description

Used to set the type of shape the physics engine should use for the prim. This is primarily used to do Physics Optimization.

Notes

Modern physics engines achieve real-time results (as opposed to slower than real-time results) by approximating and simplifying the shapes. This means the shape that client displays on the screen is much more complicated than the shape the physics engine works with (with the exception of basic shapes like cubes or prisms). This flag gives the scripter some control over how the prim is treated by the physics engine.

See also: functions

llGetPrimitiveParams

llGetLinkPrimitiveParams

llSetPrimitiveParams

llSetLinkPrimitiveParams

llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast

See also: articles

Physics Optimization

Best practices for creating efficient collision volumes — A really good article that explains how collisions work.

History

• Introduced in Second Life RC LeTigre 11.09.09.240509, September 9, 2011
• SLUniverse:Future physics functions tease

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• PRIM PHYSICS SHAPE TYPE (revision 1185812, 2013-12-27)

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