[Opensim-dev] Question on Avatar Appearance persistance

[Michael Wright]

I'm still unsure what you meant about the appearance shouldn't be part of the land.

But avatar appearance is very much a scene related thing, its basically the definition of a 3d object...the avatar. Its not really the same thing as Agent/User profile/data. Thats more account data.

So while I don't really care how on the backend it is stored. I very much think it should be on the region side something like it is now. And kept separate from agent data. Also we need to remember that bots might have a avatar (with appearance) but no userprofile. The bots in simple module for instance.

I could well be completely miss-understanding what you meant. But I think there is a danger here of trying to make connections between two bits of data that should be handled on the region side in different ways. I think we should actually most likely be breaking things up even further. And break up that mess of OpenSim.Framework.Communications. So many different things have been lumped together in there, just because they connect to the backend servers in some way. 

If we had a common easy way for any module to communicate with the backend servers then we could separate so much more.

Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:51:39AM -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> Currently AvatarAppearance is implemented as a Region Module.  It has a
> seperate connection with a mapper, pulls everything into a hash table,
> and accesses it from there.  While this works, it seems like having
> appearance as a function of land is somewhat odd (at least in my mind).
> 
> It seems to me that it would be more reasonable to have AvatarWearables
> hang off of UserProfileData, as it is very user specific.  My initial
> thought is to create a AvatarWearableCollection class which has the 13
> wearables, and make that the serialized unit.  We can set by int, or
> should be able to set by name (shirt, pants, etc) as well.  This would
> hang off ProfileData like AgentData does.
> 
> Thoughts?

To clarify, what I really want to do is make Apperance like Profile, and
the AvatarAppearance Region Module work more like AvatarProfilesModule
in getting the user server to save the information back for it.

   -Sean

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