1 Million Meters High

[paulsu27]

Lol, 1:13 elephant man 1:15 Elvis 1:21 Simon Cowel

[nemoDaedalus]

@paulsu27 Now you know how they got their looks ;)

[FireballKupa]

How'd he get that high?

[nemoDaedalus]

@FireballKupa You need a special attachment, I've used the b-places HUD for this.

[FridayTeardrop]

@FireballKupa as your question is over a year ago in the mean time you prob. fig. it out: called flight feather lol

[MrCaioable]

Why u are deforming

[nemoDaedalus]

It's a side-effect of the Physics engine or the renderer or something I guess. The higher you go, the lower the resolution gets and that causes it.

[PULSE666Fang]

ive gone higher....but it takes a LONG LONG time.........and talk to jamie david.....i think thats his name cause he has reached 1 billion or higher

[nemoDaedalus]

That's cool. I could've gone higher, but it would've been pointless for me, as right above 1 million my avatar stopped being rendered :P

[xMadWarlock]

i will try to rescript standard dash from 10 m teleport to 50 km xD

[nemoDaedalus]

@xMadWarlock That sounds awesome :D

[nonames000]

how long did it take lol i watched this vid now im trying right now im at 50k xD

[nemoDaedalus]

It didn't take me very long, several minutes. There are attachments that let you go much faster. I used the b.places HUD.

[nonames000]

i just got the hud but its not fast enough to get to 1M meters in a couple minutes

[nemoDaedalus]

Hm yes I see. Well I can't really remember, I did this a long time ago :P You could see if you can find an Av-Melter otherwise, that really shoots you up. PGFish commented about it on this video, maybe it's still available.

[lestersole]

lol jello

[nemoDaedalus]

Yup, lots of fun :D

[lestersole]

Lol, I wonder what goes on in the body mesh when you get to that point. Like, what goes on in the physics and mesh. It would be awesome to research it. :D

[nemoDaedalus]

Yeah, I don't know how it is nowadays high up in the sky. Back when I did this, it seemed the vertical resolution was much lower, so the verts just jumped up and down quite noticable, causing the jiggly effect.

[mientjeo4]

whooow does youre avie really gonna look like that??? omg scary...probbally need one off those feathers ;p

[nemoDaedalus]

Heh yeah :)

Nederlands hè? Ja, mijn av zag er zo uit en ging ook trillen. De camera gaat zo hoog ook schokkeriger.

[mientjeo4]

dood eng ik ga het proberen zal wel lang duren zeker ...lol

[nemoDaedalus]

Duurde mij een paar minuten met het juiste attachment.

En alles is weer normaal als je naar de grond teleporteert. Hoewel mijn av onzichtbaar werd iets boven 1 miljoen, dat was dan wel weer normaal na een relog.

[Zzylie]

Wat was die attachment?

[nemoDaedalus]

b.places HUD, zie b-placespuntcom, als het goed is kan je de HUD krijgen op plekken waar een b-places apparaat staat.

[RomanTribunusBrando]

I remember when that used to happen to me! Back in 07, getting orbitted was still part of everyday life.

[nemoDaedalus]

Oh yeah, I remember being orbitted. Didn't happen too often to me though luckily :) Maybe because I didn't go to crowded areas much. Especially in the first few days, I preferred being on my own.

[mbainrot]

i've just gone to 50 km

it takes just under 17minutes to fall back to earth :P

(SL Terminal velocity for my avi is -52.82927m/s)

[nemoDaedalus]

That's quite some time :P Interestingly, that closely matches the terminal velocity of a RL skydiver in freefall with semi-closed parachute, according to Wikipedia. What they mean by semi-closed, I don't know.

[shellysstuff]

looks like you melted, LOL! :-)

[nemoDaedalus]

Haha yeah, it kinda does :P

[satircon]

lol XD

[nemoDaedalus]

yeah :D

[SovereignSarcasm]

oh wow, freaky! the thought never occured to me to fly up as high as possible in sl xD

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks :) Yeah, you have to be weird to do it :P

[symanleedsuk]

what is the point. Its just the same thing over and over

[nemoDaedalus]

There's not much happening, I agree. I did this because I had read about graphic glitches in the sky as well as avatar deformations. So I tried it, but apparently, things had changed inbetween the writing of said article and my experiment. And all that's left is this effect.

Not everybody is in the position / wants to spend time on it, but may be interested in any side-effects of high altitude, so I did this for them.

Also, there could exist some bugs that can be explained by this behavior.

[jorden9k]

i have that atachment ant when u deformed i got chill bumbs u looked like you had stroke

[nemoDaedalus]

Hmm yeah... Well luckily it's just an avatar :) I'm perfectly fine irl :)

[wolfclaw11]

daaaaaaang thats cool im gonna go ahead and try to go to that height myself

but a friend told me it jest logs you out afterwards

[nemoDaedalus]

I didn't get logged out after reaching 1 million, but I did have to relog as my av was gone from my screen.

[ShinIori319]

I have some questions for you

1 - How long did it take to you to reach the million meters?

2 - Which attachment were you using?

Really awesome!

[nemoDaedalus]

Thank you :)

It took me several minutes to get there, can't remember how long exactly, perhaps 10-15 minutes.

I used the b.places HUD, read about it on b-places [dot] com/bp_faq.php .

[DivaSyn]

i heard that a guy named Jamie david got to 9 billion within 18 hrs. idk how he did it but if its possible he would dam deformed!

[nemoDaedalus]

It would be, yeah! Only problem I had when I made this, above 1 million my whole av just disappeared, stopped being rendered. Even when I tp'd back to the ground, I wasn't back on my screen until I relogged.

Maybe that behavior changed now with Windlight though, I would have to try again, but I'm not spending 18 hrs on it :|

[cibermoti]

wow

lol

`-´

[nemoDaedalus]

:) Glad you like!

[Nivaya]

Hahaha wow, that brings back memories. A friend and I once flew to 1 million metres...well, I didn't, and had to keep tp-ing him up to me due to me being faster. That was some freaky wiggliness that went on, it was great. :D

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks :) I'm glad you liked the vid. The wigglyness sure is fun, I tried to capture it with the out-of-place eyeballs and such. But of course the best experience is flying up there yourself. Why not do it again? ;)

[sixtwoeyesofblue]

rofl, what if a person looked at the last picture and went OMG, WTF, HOW DID THEY GET A PICTURE OF ME?!?!???!!!

[nemoDaedalus]

Heh yeah, would not be so good for them :P

[ShadowPoo]

500km LOL!!!!

[nemoDaedalus]

Heh yes, it's fun at those altitudes. Eyes floating around and stuff... :P

[PhoenixaSol]

it almost looked like the avi was made of butter, just before it liquifies in high heat! great experiment!

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks :)

[SJGster]

I can go 340 trillion trillion trillion meters in 5 minutes in H1.. getting to 1 million is near instant

[SJGster]

If you want to go up there, buy the "Altitutde Bracelet v8.5" on SL Exchange, or for 340 trillion trillion trillion meters, IM Sgeo Comet

[nemoDaedalus]

Heh, that sounds cool. Where would you be if you'd do that in RL? Somewhere beyond Pluto? :P

[beekuamat]

ive been pat pluto... :b

[WASTEOFTIMESTUDIOS]

How long did this take? Fastest I can climb is 1000M about every 6.5 seconds.

[nemoDaedalus]

I don't know anymore how long exactly it took. It was several minutes though, less than 1000m in 6.5 seconds, I'm sure :)

[YliNegatiivinen]

Woot?

Its Make Body in meters?

[nemoDaedalus]

The meters are the height at which I'm flying in Second Life. The body doesn't change, it is just rendered in apparently lower resolution.

[PGFish]

I miss all the amazing visual effects with the sky. Now the only attraction is the degradation of your avatar- if you uncheck "Enable Vertex Shaders." I whipped up a freebie ride kind of thing for an SL Relay for Life carnival, "The Av-Melter." It dispensed HUDs to quickly fly your av to a million meters. It's been setup again on the South border Abitibi, west of the Librarium (nearest landmark- can't get in game to get coordinates).

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks, I'll have a look.

I did read about sky deterioration, but didn't see it (obviously), so that's because of Vertex Shaders? I'll check that out too :)

[uknortherner2000]

Funny!

The furthest I've managed to climb in the game so far is 500km before the client became too unstable to go any further, but that was a long time ago. I think at that point, all my accessories were flying alongside with me, rather than on me!

I might give it another shot at some point now that I have a flight HUD that includes a /goto command (saves holding the E key for hours!)

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks :)

I read about attachments flying alongside too. I wrote a blogpost about this with a link to that article and what HUD I used. Read it at young-media [dot] blogspot [dot] com :)

[rarara77]

Nice Video.

[nemoDaedalus]

Thanks :)