Re: [mmox] RealExtend Teleporting Between Worlds

If this is to be done, my suggestion would be to not pick LL-style trees, and standardise on something which more resembles a L-System description. (or perhaps build a standard interface which resembles something like speedtree)

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mmox-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:mmox-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Lawson English
> Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2009 1:55 AM
> To: Christian Scholz
> Cc: mmox@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [mmox] RealExtend Teleporting Between Worlds
>
> Christian Scholz wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> Seems to me that some default content might be distributable as
> libraries/plugins. Any world that wants to allow the display of SL-like
> trees could toss out "SL tree-type 7" in the appropriate message.
> Likewise with some other standardized content found in other worlds.
> Would LL or any other world-provider want to do this? If it facilitates
> interop, perhaps... Just as there eventually will be universal avatar
> formats, there might be universal generic trees, etc. Hmmm... prims,
> anyone?
>
> L
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