and, yes, you can test it) is 'inside' another, the two become 'temporarily phantom' but only with respect to each other. Whenever ANY physical object (including your Avatar. When it does, if it's a teeny-tiny bit below the top surface of the floor, it is 'inside' the floor prim. gravity does not effect it.īut, at some point, the cat will decide to move again. As a non-physical object, this does not matter. But sometimes it's a teeny-tiny bit below the top surface of the floor. Sometimes it's a teeny-tiny bit above, and all is well. When the cat becomes non-physical, it's 'root' is sitting just above the floor. But, at some point the cat decides to stop moving and becomes non-physical (which, in the days before mesh, was the only way to reduce physics-phase lag). As a physical object, moving along the ground, a skybox floor prim, or a mesh physics face, it cannot go through, so it moves along the upper surface. So it becomes physical and begins to move.
The reason it does not happen often is so very, very few objects switch from being non-physical to physical.īasically, it works like this: the cat decides it want to move. It could happen to all objects, including Avatars. It's a combination of a round-off error and the fact that Kitt圜atS (and virtually noone else) switch the prim from physical to non-physical.Ģ) The size of the prim does not matter.
