Re: [mmox] RealExtend Teleporting Between Worlds

[Christian Scholz <[e-mail]>]

Hurliman, John schrieb:
>> -----Original Message-----

> This brings up an important topic to consider in interoperability.
> Most (if not all) virtual platforms use shortcuts like this to
> offload processing on to the client. But saying "draw tree type 7"
> doesn't mean the same thing (or anything) to Forterra, VastPark, etc.
> Would you create interop versions of the trees (mesh and texture
> representations), or just not allow that content to move across
> boundaries?

I think requiring having some data in the client will not scale. Why not 
give it an URL as well and just tell the client to cache it long enough? 
Should be easy with a REST approach. For SL it might be trees for a game 
it might in fact be everything if no user generated content is allowed.
A specialized game client could even be so clever as to download it in 
advance and have some proprietary way of checking whether it's still 
uptodate or not.
Or it might be a list of things to preload with a caching header on that 
list and a must-revalidate. Then only if the list changes you have to 
download it again.

-- Christian


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