[Opensim-dev] Protocol Gateways

[Mark Malewski]

A server-side DIS module would be pretty cool.
It would certainly open up the opportunity to use OpenSim for military/DoD
modeling and simulation.  That would be incredible!

What a great idea, and it would be such a great use of OpenSim's
capabilities.

Would be nice if it were compatible with realXtend so we could take
advantage of the ability to import models, buildings, etc. and use the nice
lighting and shading of the Ogre3D engine.




On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes <lopes at ics.uci.edu>wrote:

> I'd say what you want is Region Module that creates and manipulates
> the entities.
> I've done this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
> v=kJNDcurLP1w&feature=fvst
> (and hopefully will be doing a lot more of it, because that's fun)
>
> Unfortunately no one here has had time to write any documentation
> about how to do this. I wrote a brief tutorial about regions modules
> a few months ago (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Region_Modules), but
> one month later, the interface of region modules changed (http://
> opensimulator.org/wiki/New_Region_Modules), and I haven't had time to
> update the tutorial yet.
>
> So for the time being, you're on your own to put the pieces together.
>
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Frisby, Adam wrote:
>
> > If you want to feed the data into the sim, your best bet might be a
> > region module (or look at MRM scripting for a more powerful script
> > engine).
> >
> > If you are feeding this data both in and out to clients speaking a
> > special protocol, you want to write a ClientStack / ClientView.
> > (see the IRCClientView for a good simple clientview example)
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> >> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Don McGregor
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 7 October 2009 9:52 AM
> >> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> >> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Protocol Gateways
> >>
> >> I'm kicking around the idea of gatewaying into OpenSimulator an
> >> existing DoD Modeling and Simulation
> >> protocol, Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS). DIS is used for
> >> virtual worlds in military
> >> simulations. Primarily it describes the position, orientation,
> >> velocity, etc, of entities in a
> >> virtual world.
> >>
> >> There may be multiple entities on the DIS side of the gateway; I want
> >> to inject them into
> >> the OpenSimulator server side.
> >>
> >> I've been poking around the various wikis for a while and haven't
> >> seen
> >> a good description
> >> of the (or a) client-server protocol for movement. What's a
> >> reasonable
> >> approach to this?
> >> Should I translate the DIS packets into an OpenSimualtor client/
> >> server
> >> protocol? Try to
> >> write a server-side module that speaks DIS? And, most importantly,
> >> where can I find
> >> some documentation on how to do this?
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