Originally Posted by: DomTop48 hello
what difference does it make when choosing "forever" or "per session" when creating props with cache web images ?
Is there a benefit to either one ?
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Let's try it by way of example. And let's assume first that you had a property where your images were set to be
Per Session caching.
So the first time I visit your property I have none of the images cached. Meaning the first time I visit my RLC client is going to go out to your web server to fetch all of those images for me.
Then I leave your property for a bit, and come back 30 minutes later. In that 30 minutes I have
not logged out. Just flitted around in world to a couple of places.
Because I'm still in the same
Session (I haven't logged out, remember) those files should all get loaded from the local cache on my PC. As opposed to the RLC client having to go out to fetch them again from your web server.
On the other side of that coin, if I'd visited your property, but then logged out of RLC before visiting your property a second time, this would constitute a
New Session. So in that case my RLC client would need to go fetch the images from your web server again.
And
Forever overcomes this logging in and logging out stuff. With Forever, in theory at least, I should never have to go to your web server to fetch an image after my initial visit. Whether I log out and log in, or whether days or weeks have passed, it should make no difference. every subsequent visit should pull the images from the local cache on my PC.
Now, as to which is better...
When I'm building a place I tend to go ahead and leave it at the default
Per Session. Mainly so that I can see changes as I make them. Often times I'll need to change a texture to Never just so I can get it up update for me. But this is only as I'm building things.
Once I have the images looking the way I want them to, I set everything that's not going to change often to
Forever. That way nobody who visits has to re-download all of those images each time they visit the property, speeding up their region load time a bit.
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