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Everybody can use the "Lusitania Tester" region on WorldsimTerra-Grid,
like Robert ask, and I'll do every week<br>
a OAR and put the file for download on the site. If everybody
accept the offer.<br>
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Robert Klein wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Short Term Idea:
What about creating a single region on the OSGrid that everyone can put
their creations on and the person who owns the region can simply dump an OAR
file out once a week and place it where we can all get to it? Kind of like a
contribution sandbox. Again we still need to figure out WHERE to keep the
files but it might be a good start.
Long Term Idea:
The same kind of region or regions as mentioned above, but as Justin
mentions (once he finishes the code), you just click on a box of items and
they get saved in some kind of OAR format minimized to just the parcel you
were standing on, or some other method as yet to be determined. This would
not require a file server but rather the region simulator acts as its own
kind of file server.
-Robert
Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Mo Hax wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have heard of this and am only experimenting now with it, but doesn't
that imply some cleanup of the output from a save-oar against an entire
region? Even if that region has nothing in it but the new items you have
built? and are targetting for later sharing as OAR.
This also raises a best-practice question about the amount of content to
generally put in an OAR in any sharing site. OARs could be as granular
as one per, say, sofa, or as broad as one per city block.
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<pre wrap="">I would anticipate that something as small as a sofa would be transported
as an inventory item rather than as part of a
region (which might still be suitable for city blocks). Indeed, there is
experimental code for an inventory archive
format that I intend to do something with fairly soon.
As Robert said, OAR files are bulky. To some extent this is a tradeoff of
convenience against file size. If all the
necessary assets weren't contained in the oar then they would need to be
requested over the web. There is a certain
inconvenience in making assets publicly available. It's also not ideal if
you want to keep those assets private between
yourself and some trusted receivers.
However, the advantages are probably great enough for a way for an asset
service to request assets dynamically via urls
to evolve in the future. These urls would probably be embedded in the
object url so that one could just toss xml files
about (though I think there are still good reasons for bundling multiple
objects to gether). Indeed, Cable Beach may
already be anticipating this. I would anticipate that this alternative
would supplement archives rather than replace them.
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