[Opensim-dev] Ways to bundle a building/content for sharing with others

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
>  
>  > > In fact,
>  > > there is already a suggested OSS function to do this from a URL 
> pointing
>  > > to such XML:
>  > >
>  > > osRezFromURL(string url, vector pos, vector vel, rotation rot, integer
>  > > param)
>  >
>  > I think that this is a neat idea Mo! It's kind of the 3d equivalent 
> of displaying a web page in-world - point your
>  > script at an url and rez whatever 3d objects it describes instead. 
> Oh, and probably highly dangerous in any public
>  > world :) (and hence would be marked as highly hazardous) but might 
> allow some cool stuff in more controlled environments.
> 
> In Tribal One, ViewPorts (the xml content render containers) could be 
> 'rezzed' from inventory; ie, if an inventory item had a description that 
> contained an url, what would happen was that dragging it into the world 
> would create not an object, but a viewport container, that would 
> asynchrounusly load the xml contents of the url - with a post, 
> containing the userId of the originator; so a service could respond to a 
> general request like 
> http://3dcars.com/cars/mycar.php?key=s3cr3t&model=pontiac 
> <http://3dcars.com/cars/mycar.php?key=s3cr3t&model=pontiac>" and supply 
> the xml definition for that users previously configured 3D car, not by 
> looking it up and dumping it, but by generating it in code, just as 
> almost any web page is generated today.

Was the asset data for the model be embedded in the xml, or was that fetched separately by GETting embedded urls?

>  
> Unfortunately, this working prototype of ours has been taken offline and 
> has long since 'rotted' (being based on circa r3000...) but the concept 
> still has merit. It allows web coders to use some kind of standard 
> library (that's why I've been proposing a simple and reference-free 
> standard SceneGraph definitions and manipulations library shipped with 
> and used by the OpenSim core) to build objects programatically, in php 
> or whatever web language you want, and then expose it so that a region 
> can show the output as 3D.
>  
> So, an army of web coders could code stuff that a distinctly lesser army 
> of OpenSim coders would not have to.
>  
> Also, it poses some interesting angles with regards to distributed and 
> combined inventory and 'home regions' where you pull data from several 
> sources onto your space, instead of going to them for it.
>  
> /Stefan
>  
> 
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