RegionIntegration
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Media on a prim (MOAP), also called Shared Media by Linden Lab, allows you to display and interact with any webpage on the surface of an object with version 2 and later Linden Lab viewers and third party viewers such as Firestorm and Kokua. See [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Shared-Media/ta-p/700145 this page] for more details. | Media on a prim (MOAP), also called Shared Media by Linden Lab, allows you to display and interact with any webpage on the surface of an object with version 2 and later Linden Lab viewers and third party viewers such as Firestorm and Kokua. See [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Shared-Media/ta-p/700145 this page] for more details. | ||
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| + | == Integration through Linden Scripting Language (LSL) scripts == | ||
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| + | LSL provides a number of mechanisms for objects in a region to send (e.g. [http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llHTTPRequest llHTTPRequest()]) and receive data (e.g. [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlRequestURL llRequestURL()] and then the http_request event) from external servers via HTTP. Please see the linked webpages for more details on using these and associated commands. | ||
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| + | == Integration through region modules == | ||
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| + | OpenSimulator provides a [[region module|IRegionModule]] mechanism by which C# code can directly affect the objects in a region and can interface with any external system. Interfacing with internal OpenSimulator code is unfortunately something of a black art, though the core distribution itself contains a large number of region modules and test code which can give examples of how to do this. | ||
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| + | Region modules can also send and receive information from scripts via the [[OSSL_Script_Library/ModSendCommand]] mechanism. In a future OpenSimulator release (0.7.4), region modules will also be able to make custom scripting functions available to scripts without having to manually patch and rebuild OpenSimulator via the [[OSSL_Script_Library/ModInvoke]] mechanism. | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 19 July 2012
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Introduction
This page is a work-in-progress
Integrating OpenSimulator regions with external sources of data can be done in a number of ways.
Techniques
Media on a prim (MOAP), also called Shared Media by Linden Lab, allows you to display and interact with any webpage on the surface of an object with version 2 and later Linden Lab viewers and third party viewers such as Firestorm and Kokua. See this page for more details.
Integration through Linden Scripting Language (LSL) scripts
LSL provides a number of mechanisms for objects in a region to send (e.g. llHTTPRequest()) and receive data (e.g. llRequestURL() and then the http_request event) from external servers via HTTP. Please see the linked webpages for more details on using these and associated commands.
Integration through region modules
OpenSimulator provides a IRegionModule mechanism by which C# code can directly affect the objects in a region and can interface with any external system. Interfacing with internal OpenSimulator code is unfortunately something of a black art, though the core distribution itself contains a large number of region modules and test code which can give examples of how to do this.
Region modules can also send and receive information from scripts via the OSSL_Script_Library/ModSendCommand mechanism. In a future OpenSimulator release (0.7.4), region modules will also be able to make custom scripting functions available to scripts without having to manually patch and rebuild OpenSimulator via the OSSL_Script_Library/ModInvoke mechanism.
