Re: [mmox] RealExtend Teleporting Between Worlds

[Lawson English <[e-mail]>]

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