Per http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tips_for_Creating_Heightfields_and_Details_on_Terrain_RAW_Files#Notes_for_Creating_Height_Field_Maps_for_Second_Life
terrain heights up to 508 are possible on the LL grid (and were available on previous releases of OpenSimulator).
The obvious way to allow both this and equivalent -z values, is to rewiden the internal terrain height storage from short to int.
The memory tradeoff is most noticeable on the maximum 8192x8192 var region (equiv to 1024 normal regions), where it adds 128mb to resident use (128k on a normal region)
This is still better than the double used in previous releases.
This does not affect physics or data storage since they already use float and double respectively.
This may not be the final solution if we actually want to sacrifice -z, >327 or something else.
Relates to http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=7076
than everytime terrain is changed.
The TerrainModule now hooks the frame event and, if terrain has changed,
sends terrain updates to the clients. This polling pattern replaces
the previous push on change pattern and will make it easier to do per
client throttling and per scene presence terrain update ordering.
the size of the input stream. This is required since the raw heightmap
format (.r32) does not contain any size information.
The estimation relies on terrain being square.
Modify archiver to use terrain merging when loading oars.
This makes displacement AND rotation properly work on terrain when loading oars.
Especially useful when loading legacy region oars into large varregions.
Routines in Util to compute region world coordinates from region coordinates
as well as the conversion to and from region handles. These routines have
replaced a lot of math scattered throughout the simulator.
Should be no functional changes.
-- addition of varaible region size in X and Y
-- internal storage of heightmap changed from double[] to short[]
-- helper routines for handling internal structure while keeping existing API
-- to and from XML that adds region size information (for downward compatibility,
output in the legacy XML format if X and Y are 256)
Updated and commented Constants.RegionSize but didn't change the name for compatibility.
* Shrinks the largest in-memory object, the LLRAW.HeightmapLookupValue struct (only used for exporting to LLRAW terrain files), to the minimum possible size. This seems to have the odd side effect of cutting the size of the two double[256,256] terrain objects in half. Possibly an alignment optimization?
OpenSim.Region.Environment into a "framework" part and a modules only
part. This first changeset refactors OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes,
OpenSim.Region.Environment.Interfaces, and OpenSim.Region.Interfaces
into OpenSim.Region.Framework.{Interfaces,Scenes} leaving only region
modules in OpenSim.Region.Environment.
The next step will be to move region modules up from
OpenSim.Region.Environment.Modules to OpenSim.Region.CoreModules and
then sort out which modules are really core modules and which should
move out to forge.
I've been very careful to NOT BREAK anything. i hope i've
succeeded. as this is the work of a whole week i hope i managed to
keep track with the applied patches of the last week --- could any of
you that did check in stuff have a look at whether it survived? thx!
