[Opensim-dev] Multi-region OAR format

[Nebadon Izumi]

How does it know what order to restore them in? what if the oar is made on
a none square shape? what if the regions are not next to each other?

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Oren Hurvitz <orenh at kitely.com> wrote:

> I want to extend the OAR format to support multiple regions. That's a
> significant change, so I'd like to get some feedback about the design
> before
> diving in.
>
> A multi-region OAR will store each region in its own subdirectory. Only the
> assets will remain in a top-level directory, to avoid storing multiple
> copies of the assets. I.e:
>
> my_oar/
>    assets/ - (all the assets)
>    region1/
>       settings/ - region1.xml
>       objects/ - (objects from region1)
>    region2/
>       settings/ - region2.xml
>       objects/ - (objects from region2)
>    etc.
>
> The file archive.xml will get a "table of contents" that lists the included
> regions and their spatial relationship. Regions are listed first by row
> (South to North), and within each row regions are listed West-to-East:
>
> <regions>
>   <row><region><name>region1</name></region>
> <region><name>region2</name></region></row>
>   <row><region><name>region3</name></region>
> <region><name>region4</name></region></row>
> </regions>
>
>
> The load-oar and save-oar commands will be extended as follows:
>
> save-oar - add a parameter called "-all". If true then save all the regions
> in the simulator into a single OAR. If false or missing then save only the
> current region (as today).
>
> load-oar - when loading a multi-region OAR, load each region into the
> corresponding region in the simulator
>
> If the OAR contains only one region then we'll skip creating a subdirectory
> for the region, and won't include the <regions> element in archive.xml.
> This
> means all existing OARs will be compatible with the new format.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Oren
>
>
>
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