Avatar portability
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Basic Idea
To enable user avatar travel from a grid service to another grid service, There are 2 problem to be considered:
- How to enable foreign user login - Authentication
- How to get a foreign user's belongings(including appearance, inventory)
To achieve the 1st, client side changes are needed. SO, so far, I have only implemented 2nd, and would like to explan my idea:
Authentication
Avatar Portability
In "users" table, "UserInventoryURL" and "UserAssetURL" have been there for a long time, and they are not used yet. My idea starts from the 2 properties;
1
- U1 is an user of GridService G1, so probably, U1's "UserInventoryURL" and "UserAssetURL" are pointing to G1's default Inventory/Asset server.
- R1 is a regionserver in GridService G2, so R1 used to fetch assets from G2's default Asset server.
2
- U1 login to R1, R1 can get U1's appearance from U1's "UserInventoryUrl" and get U1's assets(textures) from "UserAssetUrl".
