[Opensim-users] regions

[Paul Fishwick]

There are two key issues that my colleagues surface when talking of
Second Life. One is the poor geometry support (lack of meshes
and other common CAD formats), and the other is a primitive
programming language. OpenSim seems to be a solution to
both of these. For programming, there is C#/Mono. For
geometry, a convincing demo would be one that involves,
as you say, other types, especially meshes that might be created
in Blender, Max, Maya, etc.

There is also the issue of a lack of a hierarchical scene graph (i.e.,
linear linksets in SL), but I am not sure whether OpenSim has
moved beyond this or not? Anyway, it seems to be moving
in the right direction!

-p


Diva Canto wrote:
> Very cool! :-)
> I guess I'm going to do another tutorial about object creation, before I 
> do the bots one.
> The thing is that these SceneObjectGroups can be imported from external 
> representations, allowing a lot more interesting objects than just boxes.
> Without external object tools it's not obvious to do it, but I'll try to 
> explain as best as I can.
>
> Paul Fishwick wrote:
>   
>> Yet another region example:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxsk9WDYMtg
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