[Opensim-users] NPC Persistence over server restarts

[Justin Clark-Casey]

You cannot just copy and paste the notecard.  To transfer the necessary appearance and any attachments the notecard must 
be saved and reloaded within an IAR or OAR.

On 14/10/11 16:41, Gudule Lapointe wrote:
> What about the NPC inventory? If I try to use a notecard that I created in another grid, the servers complains that the avatar has no inventory and cannot render it. And in fact, it remains just a cloud. Anyone has a workaround? … Other than re-creating a notecard for each avatar in each world, I already thought about this one...
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> Le 14 oct. 2011 à 16:14, Justin Clark-Casey a écrit :
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>> This is both a design and technical choice.
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>> There's no existing technical structure for easy NPC persistence (persisting user identities is not the same).  So it would take a ton of work to create and I would have to predict what people would need and how they would use it.
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>> Recreating the avatars as required in scripts, as Marcus discussed, is far easier.  It allows people to do exactly what they need and if a very common solution emerges then server support could eventually be added.
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>> On 13/10/11 21:00, Ai Austin wrote:
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>>>> ...since NPC UUIDs aren't persistent,
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>>> I know Justin said that NPCs disappeared when a server was restarted, but I wonder if there is a reason for that either
>>> technically or as a design choice?
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>>> I am wanting to have a set of NPCs as assistants set up with MyCyberTwin chat capabilities and left in I-Rooms to assist
>>> users. Rather than simple 3D people like objects. But of course they all need to be set back up after server restart.
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