[Opensim-dev] Thoughts on SceneObjects

[Paul Fishwick]

  Not sure if looking at how VRML and X3D handle scene graphs would
assist in this exploration..but just a thought..
-p

On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Sean Dague wrote:

> Disclaimer: I'm not looking to implement any of this, at least not any
> time soon.  This is just food for thought, and I'm curious what others
> think about these approaches.
>
> I've been recently thinking a lot about SceneObjects, and how they  
> might
> be made both more sensible, and more flexible, as today the SOG/SOP
> stuff is very monolythic.
>
> It started to occur to me that SceneObjects are really a set of
> capabilities.  Some of the capabilities seem to be the following:
>
> * have physics applied
> * be scripted
> * be persisted
> * be seen by all clients
> * have inventory
> * have children
> * be modified by the client
>
> This isn't really an entire list, but it's based on times a SOG/SOP
> interacts with classes beyond itself.
>
> Today we handle this with having all this functionality in a single
> class, and then use bits or booleans or the permission manager to  
> block
> the system from doing certain things.
>
> While this works well enough in the SL use case, the moment you start
> looking at creating objects through a path other than the Client
> interfaces, you quickly start running into creating a lot of work
> arounds to trick OpenSim into not letting these subsystems get their
> hands on the objects (for either simplicity or performance reasons).
>
> Discussion is welcome, as I'm start to experiment on the synthetic
> object side and it definitely exposes a new way of thinking about  
> objects.
>
> 	-Sean
>
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