[Opensim-users] Sailing in Opensim

Wed Nov 5 02:59:45 UTC 2008

Heh, the catch here is that I probably won't get a chance to even start work on this in the next week - I can offer a lot of advice in the meantime on 'how' to do it, but I'm busy doing some other stuff right now which has a slightly higher priority.

Adam

From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of James Stallings II
Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 6:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Sailing in Opensim

Adam I am just thrilled that you are willing to take up the torch and lead the way forward with this :D

Cheers,
James
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au<mailto:adam at deepthink.com.au>> wrote:

Well, the LSL functions probably won't do - unfortunately they are very tied to the Havok internal API, and while we could probably write a neutral bridge for them to the ODE/Bullet/etc equivalents, it's a lot of work and they still probably won't behave exact the same as SL's (i.e. necessitating rewrites and tweaks anyway).

I'm thinking at the moment it may be easiest to make a set of os functions to replace the Linden ones, with hooks into a generic 'Vehicle Module' for the moment. It would be the fastest way to go right now vs implementing the Linden set.

Adam

From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de<mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de> [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de<mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de>] On Behalf Of James Stallings II
Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 6:50 PM

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Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Sailing in Opensim

Yes, Adam, typically on the linden grid this is done with vehicle functions in LSL. One thing that occurred to me is that this might actually be much easier to accomplish on osgrid using mono. It might also help lay some groundwork for a way forward to implementing more SL-like vehicle funtions down the road.

I have spoken with one of SL's finer sailboat makers in-world, one MothGirl Dibou (I hope I have her name right). She has recently done some sailing-related work in SL in mono (a windsetter, as it's called, that produces competition wind, and I encouraged us to get in the pit and show some love wrt sailing specifically, and vehicle physics in general, but have not heard from her for a few days; the community has been rather busy protesting and negotiating concerning the Open Spaces price hikes.

I'd be willing to carry whatever load here I can, count me in for some light coding testing, what have you. As usual, my regions are available for prototying/testing/debugging/repros.

Cheers!
James

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au<mailto:adam at deepthink.com.au>> wrote:

This probably relies on vehicle physics - I've had some interest in implementing this myself recently, although I'm not 100% sure I have the time. If you guys have programmers, maybe I can give some direction on what's needed in order to write a sailing boat module.

In theory it's not too complex (maybe a little, but it's self contained at least).

Adam

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> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de<mailto:opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
> Subject: [Opensim-users] Sailing in Opensim
>
> The Openspaces protest by the SL sailing community begs my question...
> 85% - 100%  water with a handful of 28 prim boats sailing thru a few
> times a
> week ...
> Jack Linden swears a Xeon class 5 with 4GB can't handle this 16 region
> load
> so he is forced to raise tier...
> Cough Cough..to $125 US  tier per region. .(don't barf on your
> keyboards)
>
> Where do we stand or forecast when a boat can sail?
> and how can it be moved forward...
> btw: SL sailors do not use Linden wind.
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