[Opensim-dev] Region Startup & Sculpt Meshing Asset Retreival

[Sacha Magne]

The problem is, afaik, direct TP and simcrossing are not disabled with  
"login enable/disable", only regular login are.

Sacha
Le 29 mai 09 à 10:39, Dr Scofield a écrit :

> Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>> I asked Nebadon to post this to the list to generate discussion. It's
>> not clear to me when the appropriate time would be to allow logins  
>> to a
>> region. Meshing and script loading are not confined to startup,  
>> they can
>> happen at any time when a region is running and prims and scripts are
>> rezzed or edited. It would seem that something in the scene would  
>> know
>> the appropriate time, but many of the processes related to scene  
>> loading
>> are asynchronous such as sculpt meshing, which is (currently)  
>> dependent
>> on asset deliveries.
>>
>> Could we list some of the observations surrounding this issue? What
>> happens when people log in before the region is fully loaded? Can  
>> these
>> problems be mitigated, or should logins and region entry be denied  
>> until
>> some pre-programmed decision can be made? Are there current  
>> safeguards
>> in place now that may have been rendered ineffective by past code  
>> revisions?
>
> we have been using the RegionReady region module to be notified of  
> all scripts
> being ready and running (it sends out a message on the configurable  
> region ready
> channel). not sure whether that could be extended to the sculpted  
> prim stuff.
> one idea i had (being faced by a similar issue as nebadon) was to  
> use that
> RegionReady signal (or the event it itself is using) to enable logins.
>
>
> 	dirk
>>
>> -dahlia
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Nebadon Izumi  
>> <nebadon2025 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nebadon2025 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    At the request of dahlia, I am starting this thread to discuss
>>    Region startup, I would 1st like to bring attention to the feature
>>    request that i filed on this topic
>>
>>    http://opensimulator.org/features/issue.php?id=45
>>
>>    What is happening is for many minutes after the [Startup Complete]
>>    message is displayed, startup is still going and not actually
>>    finished, if an avatar logs in during this time it results in a  
>> hung
>>    viewer that never loads.  This can be pretty frustrating if your
>>    debuging and testing all day because the only way to really know
>>    when the sculpt retreival and decoding of sculpties prior to the
>>    meshing of these assets can take a really long time, and just as a
>>    note and for dahlias sake this is not a meshing issue, its  
>> unrelated
>>    to the mesher itself other than its the process that occurs  
>> prior to
>>    the meshing so meshing can be completed.  anyway this is not  
>> really
>>    the issue, the issue is that the region is not actually started  
>> and
>>    we are making a claim on the console that is has, I would be great
>>    if we could work something out that the startup complete message  
>> and
>>    logins are disabled until not only the full pre-meshing sculpty
>>    retreival / scripting and the meshing itself are complete, because
>>    in reality until these all finish, the sim is not actually started
>>    and ready, and if enough people log in during this window it can
>>    result in scripting errors and simulator crashing in addition to
>>    hung viewers.  Please lets discuss methods on how we can perhaps
>>    correct this and make the opensimulator experience better.  Thanks
>>    --
>>    Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
>>
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