[Opensim-users] Multi-user simulation design question (Irina Lipov) (Fred Beckhusen

Wed Nov 20 18:40:05 UTC 2019

And with each instance running separately on their own PCs/laptops,
performance should not be a concern.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:37 PM Dr Ramesh Ramloll <r.ramloll at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Fred's no coding approach that he suggested would work better for  you I
> think.
> Then you just need to run the one instance from a thumbdrive on each
> user's machine, as he indicated.
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:04 PM Irina Lipov <irinalipov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you,
>> Follow-up question: How do I manage the users dynamically? I.e. if at the
>> beginning I have 2 users and afterwards I have 15 users - does it mean
>> that
>> I need to create 15 region from the beginning? Should it cause performance
>> issues? (And if we will have 50 / 100 users.....)
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM Fred Beckhusen <fred.b at mitsi.com> wrote:
>>
>> > re: 1. Multi-user simulation design question (Irina Lipov)
>> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > You could use a simple LSL scanner that only allowed certain avatars
>> > > into a region.  If they are not on the list, it would teleport them
>> > > back to the welcome region.    Stock Opensim or a DreamGrid setup on
>> > > Windows can do this easily.  For example, set up user accounts names
>> > > such as Region One, Region Two, etc. Name the regions the same way.
>> > > Add a Welcome region.   Put a script in a prim in each region that
>> > > periodically checks if an Avatar name matches the region name, or
>> > > not.  If not, teleport them to Welcome.
>> > >
>> > > If you are on Windows, you can run a copy of Dreamgrid, and even run a
>> > > copy on  on each PC, which solves the problem with no coding.  You can
>> > > easily disable hypergrid in the Settings so they can't go anywhere but
>> > > to their own pre-set up region(s). It's a full region server that
>> > > starts with just a few clicks on a LAN.   Copy it from a server and
>> > > load the startup OAR with a few clicks.  - about 200 MB in zip form
>> > > for the entire system. It can also run on a thumb drive.
>> > >
>> > > https://www.outworldz.com/Outworldz_installer/
>> > > <https://www.outworldz.com/Outworldz_installer/>
>> > >
>> > > Fred
>> > >
>> > > Message: 1
>> > > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:39:40 +0200
>> > > From: Irina Lipov <irinalipov at gmail.com>
>> > > To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
>> > > Subject: [Opensim-users] Multi-user simulation design question
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>> > > Hi,
>> > > I am developing multi-user educational simulation
>> > > Each user (student) should "get" the same instance of the simulation.
>> But
>> > > they should not be able to "visit/ work on" each other
>> simulation.(I.e.
>> > the
>> > > same avatar "works" in the laboratory, but each student plays with him
>> > and
>> > > laboratory as he wants)  As well users around the web should not be
>> able
>> > to
>> > > "enter" our wold.
>> > > What should be a correct approach/design for such application?
>> > >
>> > >
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