[Opensim-dev] SceneObjectGroup vs SceneObjectPart

[Stefan Andersson]

> It would be good to see a proposal on how to change those objects into> something better. None of us are in love with them, but better> approaches haven't popped up yet.
Probably because nobody has made any attempt at discussing and proposing changes; this mail was an attempt to get that ball rolling.
 
There was some energy poured into analyzing how attachments were communicated; that would be a good start, if we could get a wiki page up just detailing what we know about scene entities.
 > > * Related, we need to revise the xml serialization scheme and the db> > * schemes. The xml scheme should be user-friendly to the point where> > * you should be confident to create and edit objects in notepad,> > * basically. This is not the case at the moment. Massive duplication,> > * weird bit values and non-intuitive value ranges are king at the> > * moment.> > Given the amount of data in a prim, editing in notepad always is going> to be a bad idea. :) I think we've got something like 40 fields that> have to be sensible for the prim to work.