[Opensim-dev] Opensim-dev Client-side NPC development update (youtube)

Fri Apr 19 19:30:05 UTC 2013

Coarse location updates are used by the viewer to display the avatar green dots on the minimap.  Decreasing the 
frequency (by increasing n frames) simply means that human viewers will see the minimap updating less frequently.

This is completely unrelated to the position updates that actually change your 3D view of other avatars, so I'm 
surprised that increasing this value allows you to place more bots.

On 18/04/13 17:50, Dave Gubser wrote:
> NPCs and General Number of AVs in a sim:
>
> UpdateCoarseLocationsEveryNFrames in Opensimdefaults.ini (in the bin folder)
> I found, what appears to be a bottleneck related to the # of users in a
> simulator/servers ability to update each users position (to each other).
> Experimenting with over 22 NPC on my sims, generated missing or corrupted AV
> position information communications from the server. Adding the
> UpdateCoarseLocationsEveryNFrames = 50 (experiment with values that work for
> you) allowed me to place 50 plus bots (all actually going someplace and
> performing functions) on sims with this added line, modification. It also
> appears to have no effect on any other part of the simulator. The question
> being, by modifying my Opensim.ini with the line, am I going to break
> something else?... some bad effect?
> For fun, I included a Youtube vid of the latest npc updates:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxrdbV9OFYw
> -Dave
>
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> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:30:19 +0200
> From: FoTo50 <info at foto50.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] AddRegion() not triggered
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> Hi Justin
>
> My other 2 modules (search and profile) do not run into this issue,
> allthough they are more or less structured the same way. The money module is
> like all my others a shared module. When I add debug lines to the log, I can
> see it running through "Initialise(IConfigSource source)"
> and then never hear/read anything of it anymore. Not AddRegion() or
> RegionLoaded() or anything else ... and it either receives AddRegion for all
> regions or for none. When I check with "show modules" it tells me that it is
> not even loaded (running here 0.7.5 stable btw), allthough some custom
> console commands of the module are working.
>
> Thanks for the hint with the log level of "RegionModulesControllerPlugin".
> Turning this to "DEBUG" I get sometimes a line (when it loads correctly)
> like:
>
> DEBUG -
> OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RegionModulesController.RegionModulesControllerPl
> ugin
> [REGIONMODULE]: Deferred load of jOpenSimMoneyModule and a bit later then
> DEBUG -
> OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RegionModulesController.RegionModulesControllerPl
> ugin
> [REGIONMODULE]: Adding scene testregion to shared module jOpenSimMoneyModule
> (deferred)
>
> ... but when it fails, it writes only the first one and then later it adds
> the BetaGridLikeMoneyModule instead, allthough this should be disabled by
> configuration in OpenSim.ini:
>
> [Startup]
> ...
> economymodule = jOpenSimMoneyModule
> ...
>
> Also something "interesting": once it failed to startup correct, it will
> fail to startup correct most of time later at restart. Renaming the
> containing folder helps sometimes ?!?!?
>
> Greetz
> Georg
>
>
>
> Am 16.04.2013 22:37, schrieb Justin Clark-Casey:
>> I'm not sure what would cause this behaviour, since AddRegion() should
>> always be triggered on startup and if there was a general problem then
>> there would be many problems with core modules.
>>
>> Do any other modules suffer this issue?  Is this a shared or
>> non-shared module?  Does the module receive AddRegion for other
>> regions?  Does the module receive other events?
>>
>> You can see more information on module startup if you change the
>> RegionModulesControllerPlugin log level in OpenSim.exe.config.  In
>> fairly recent dev versions of OpenSimulator there is also a "show
>> modules" command which will show loaded modules.
>>
>> On 16/04/13 16:01, FoTo50 wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Developing a third party (currency) module I run into some strange
>>> behaviour. Sometimes AddRegion() is triggered at startup, sometimes
>>> it is not triggered. Does somebody know what could cause this
>>> behaviour? (running on several plattforms, but mostly under
>>> linux/mono 2.10.8.1)
>>>
>>> Greetz
>>> FoTo50 alias Georg
>>>
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