[Opensim-dev] users and agents table, and other oddities?

[Stefan Andersson]

Read the thread 'a modest proposal' in the archives for more info about agents and regions - and please add that info to the wiki.
 
/Stefan



> From: tleiades at hotmail.com> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:07:31 +0200> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] users and agents table, and other oddities?> > > But yeah I think there is a lot of confusion about the UserAgent thing in > > the user server. I know I got a bit confused about that just last week. It > > seems that the UserAgent in there is really more of a UserSession, ie a > > new UserAgent is created every time the user logs in.> > Let me try to come up with a few definitions of terms, which doesn't require > a lot of refactoring:> > Sim/Simulator: a program which runs a simulation of objects interacting, > possibly with the involvement of simulated physics.> > Region: a 256x256 wide area, having a terrain and a number of objects, > interacting> > A Sim can house multiple regions, and each region can house multiple objects> > An object can either be a collection of prims or an avatar> > User: This represents a person in the real world, somthing which has an > email, a username etc.> > Viewer: an application which is used to view the state of the simulation. > Currently I know of three, the LL viewer, the OpenSL test client and > AjaxLife> > Agent: in a way, this can be thought of as a cursor, indicating what > position inside the simulator, the viewer is observing from., typically a > viewer will have multiple agents, a primary, often backed by an avatar, and > multiple child agents, in the neighboring regions.> > Session: Each connection between a viewer and an agent, regardless if the > agent is the primary or one of the child agents. Personally I would prefer > that we named child agents as sub-agents, and the sessions between the > viewer and sub-agents as sub-sessions.> > Unless somebody strongly objects to this convetion, I will start using that > naming convention in my codewriting.> > > One thing that we have repeatedly said is that we need to rewrite all the > > backend servers (ie user server etc) as the current ones are the result of > > very early work, from before we really knew how a lot of things worked or > > would work. One of the goals of 0.5 is meant to be that rewrite of the > > servers and the protocol between them and the regions.> > won't that hurt the goal of "frequent releases" ?> /tleiades> > _______________________________________________> Opensim-dev mailing list> Opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
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