[Opensim-dev] Lively

[Charles Krinke]

To torture the analogy a little bit. It seems to me that as we look forward, the appearance & clothes at least of an avatar probably should evolve to be carried along with the avatar much like people traverse airports and carry their clothes along with them.

It could also be argued that a certain subset of attachments could be arguably carried on airplanes that traverse different countries or cities (aka grids or standalone sims). But also argued that not all attachments are appropriate to carry on an airplane (aka teleport).

Just a couple of thoughts to try to help the conversation along.

Charles


----- Original Message ----
From: "Dickson, Mike (ISS Software)" <mike.dickson at hp.com>
To: "opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de" <opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:45:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Lively

Except of course that prim attachments still need to be accounted for somewhere and most likely in the region the avatar is in.  In general I agree though that pushing more of the housekeeping and rendering to the client makes sense.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Mana Janus
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:24 AM
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Lively

Charles Krinke wrote:
> I think one of the long-term issues may be that an avatars appearance
> perhaps should be a property of the client and not the region.
> Admitedly, our current mainstream client doesnt work that way, but
> perhaps considering morphing our architecture to favor that tendency
> might help.
Great idea! Actually even today the appearance is baked in the client
and sent to the server. The server supplies only the wearables and textures.
I think it would not be a big change of client or general architecture
to persist wearables and associated textures on the client, until the
clothing is explicitly changed by the user.

Best regards,

Mana

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