{"id":2203,"date":"2012-11-01T20:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2012-11-01T20:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:43:44","slug":"pathfinding-provides-builders-with-linkset-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinding Provides Builders With Linkset Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pathfinding is now widely available, although the tools are not yet in the main viewer, they are in the latest beta viewer which is available from the main Second Life client download page<\/a>. Inside the viewer you will find the build tools:<\/p>\n

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Pathfinding In Build Menu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now the issue for builders to consider is whether or not they want to consider making their buildings pathfinding compatible. There are certain things to consider here, fortunately Linden Lab have a good resource on the wiki: Pathfinding Tools In The Second Life Viewer<\/a>. I heartily reccomend builders read that but I’ll briefly go through some of this.<\/p>\n

Pathfinding works on linksets, not objects in linksets, that’s a big conundrum for builders and I’ll explain why.<\/p>\n

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When you create a build for users you probably like to use as few linksets as possible, indeed if you can do it in one, then that’s great because it makes life easier for the end user. Now consider this, I have a one linkset build which I can get to either via clicking linksets from the build menu after pathfinding or by right clicking my build and selecting show in linksets:<\/p>\n

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Pathfinding from Right Click<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now I will see something like this from either selection:<\/p>\n

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Linksets In Pathfinding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that image probably isn’t easy to read but you can give your linksets pathfinding features such as:<\/p>\n