[Opensim-dev] Server based navigation/pathfinding

[Teravus Ovares]

Technically it can..      however, be aware that the developers of
OpenSimulator are currently planning on revamping the object
structure, and therefore the module API when dealing with objects
stored on the simulator and there's a chance that if you start now, in
a month or two, the module will be obsolite because the API changed
significantly.     I would wait until about 2 weeks after 0.7 is
tagged..     which should be sometime in January.

Regards

Teravus

2009/12/23 V.Rovensky <v.rovensky at lit.cz>:
> Hi everyone
> I'm trying to implement pathfinding and some navigation for my bots (written
> in libOpenMetaVerse) and it seems it would be more efficient to do this on
> the server's side, instead of on the client. Ideally, I'd like to go through
> the region's prims and terrain and create a navigation graph consisting of
> various waypoints and then apply some standard algorithm like Dijkstra or A*
> to find the route for my bot. I was thinking I could create an invisible
> prim for every waypoint and reimplement the autopilot function so it suits
> my needs a little more. To do this I suppose I need to do the following:
>     1) Be able to access all the region's prims, their locations and shapes
> to create and manage the graph of waypoints
>     2) Be able to reimplement the autopilot function, so whenever the
> client starts autopilot, my method gets called and sends the client along
> the computed route.
>
> Could this be done via RegionModules? I'm fairly new to OpenSim development,
> so any tips that could point me the right way would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for all your time
> V.Rovensky
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