[Opensim-dev] Estates Estates everywhere and nowhere to save

[Teravus Ovares]

Hey all

Going through and looking at the estate/region stuff we've currently got in
place..  there's a fundimental difference from the client orgainization of
'estate and region'.  Because of that there's also a severe lack of
functionality.

Currently, we've got one EstateSettings.xml file with 'set' values for all
regions in our instance.
In addition, a few options are configurable per region in their respective
region.xml files.

Estates are logical organizational units that have a one to many
relationship with regions.
There are many regions to one estate and every region is in an estate.

Organizing it this way allows for a simple way to make configuration changes
on all of the simulators you run (including regions on separate
OpenSimulator Instances)

It also allows you to section off certain portions of your
map. (ParentEstate)

Currently there's some real Old Crusty code surrounding the
EstateSettings.xml file.  You *can* save to EstateSettings.xml, but it's
really ugly..    and you currently 'can't' save to your
RegionInfo.xmlfiles(so nothing persists).

It's been proposed to put this information in a database and/or have it be
asked when the sim loads for the first time.

As far as Region vs Estate responsibility/relationship, what's the community
concensus?

If you change an estate setting, should it override a region level setting?
(LLGrid does, do we want to?)

Bear in mind that we've got cross over occasionally on the values.

Some of the Nouns involved are;
BillableFactor
EstateID
MaxAgents
ObjectBonusFactor
ParentEstateID
PricePerMeter
RedirectGridX
RedirectGridY
RegionFlags
SimAccess
SunHour
TerrainLowerLimit
TerrainRaiseLimit
UseEstateSun
WaterHeight
SimName
TerrainTextures (base1,base2,base3,base4)
Maturity
Maximum agents
Covenants
Estate managers
Estate Owners
UsedFixedSun
when to use the various terrain base textures
Estate level Banlists
Estate level allow lists
EstateID
ParentEstateID
BlockFly
AllowDamage
Restrict Pushing
AllowLandResell
AllowParcelJoin/Divide
Telehub settings
Disable scripts/Collisions/Physics
Sandbox Region

Public Access
AllowDirect Teleport

Eventually, Allowed Groups
(<Add more nouns here>)

If we're using the LL grid as an example, then the following examples exist;
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Estate_Visibility_Functional_Spec
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Estate_Land_Sales_Functional_Spec
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Estate_Manager
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Estate_Menu

I look forward to your response.

Best Regards

Tera
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