Teleports
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[edit] Introduction
A teleport is the transfer of a user's connection (represented in-world by their avatar) from one location to another. These locations can be
- Within the same region.
- Between different regions on the same simulator.
- Between different simulators on the same network within the same grid (e.g. a grid hosted on a single network).
- Between different networks within the same grid (e.g. between simulators hosted on OSGrid).
- Between different networks on different grids (i.e. Hypergrid teleport).
In OpenSimulator 0.7.5 and for many releases previously, a teleport protocol called SIMULATION/0.1 was used. In OpenSimulator 0.7.6 and after, a teleport protocol called SIMULATION/0.2 is used by default. However, OpenSimulator can still use the SIMULATION/0.1 protocol required by older versions and will automatically inter-operate with them.
If you want to know an eye-watering amount of nitty-gritty about how this works, then please see the Teleport Protocol page.
[edit] Configuration
Normally, no configuration is required. However, from OpenSimulator 0.7.6 onwards, one can force the simulator to always use the older SIMULATION/0.1 protocol to send an avatar to another simulator, receive an avatar from another simulator or both.
[edit] Using SIMULATION/0.1 to send an avatar to another region
The protocol version used for outgoing teleports is controlled by the MaxOutgoingTransferVersion attribute in the [EntityTransfer] section of OpenSim.ini. Specifying
[EntityTransfer] MaxOutgoingTransferVersion = "SIMULATION/0.1"
here will make the simulator use this earlier protocol for outgoing teleports even if the destination has SIMULATION/0.2 available (all such simulators should also have SIMULATION/0.1 available). See OpenSimDefaults.ini for more details.
[edit] Using SIMULATION/0.1 to receive an avatar from another region
In this case, one needs to use the ConnectorProtocolVersion in the [SimulationService] section of StandaloneCommon.ini or GridCommon.ini as appropriate. For example
[SimulationService] ConnectorProtocolVersion = "SIMULATION/0.1"
[edit] References
- Teleport Protocol - an extremely in depth look at the teleport protocol.
