Avatar Rendering Costs

Discovered that OnRez browser was missing a couple of features so decided to give SL a shot again. And of course SL has made me update yet again (3rd time in less then a month). This time SO far all seems ok. No major freezeup crashes when people IM me. If anything they gave me a couple of new toys to play with.

The first being the lagometer. To start it just go to help Lag Meter Not very impressed with this as I really dont believe in their tips showing under the 3 sections but it is something new to play with. Ive noticed that my network and Server are always in green and my client is usually yellow or red. Under client their explanation is "Possible Cause: Too many complex objects in scene." Funny how ive seen it in yellow when im standing on a simple platform 700m in the air totally nude with NOTHING around me and I get this message.

I have my draw distance set up at the lowest 96m. In the picture below you will see very little complex objects. A bird bath with moving water, one prim trees/ferns. Around me is a 26 prim sculpti tree, a couple of sculpti chairs and a pool with moving water similiar to the bird bath. You will see that the client is showing yellow. I have stood here before in the same scene and seen the client green so I know its not the things around me. There has to be another explanation for the changes in the colour in the lagmeter. Hopefully LL will explain this in the future. Just click on the picture to make it bigger and use back button on browser to come back to blog.


Another toy LL has put in the new RC Client Second Life 1.20.5 is something called Avatar Rendering Costs. They have an explanation of this on their blog pages. You will notice in this picture that mine is now at 2134. It has been fun to try different hair, clothes etc to see the different results in the total. Although my hair is very low prim compared to most I notice that it does add a lot to it. I am also wearing a mean kitty on my shoulder which adds on quite a bit more prims. I saw someone posting a reply to LLs post that he has seen the average av being 500 prims. I'm very doubtful over those figures but will be doing some observations of my own in the future. If anything I will make sure to go down to the bare minimum ugly if I go on any sims with more then 10 people on it. I also doubt that this new LL Tutorial will change little if anything when it comes to fashion on SL. Afterall isn't the best thing about SL is the ability to create yourself into anything you want?