Sergiy,
The software architecture of OpenSim is such that it is relatively easy
for people to develop all sorts of architectural variants. So the answer
to the question "can OpenSim do X?", in most cases is "yes, if you care
to do that variant." (except perhaps your 1st questions)
As for the Hypergrid, here is the draft of a paper currently under the
last round of reviews.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18483217/hypergrid-draft.pdf
Regards,
Crista
On 4/26/2011 6:34 PM, Sergiy Byelozyorov wrote:
Dear OpenSim developers,
I am a researcher from the Saarland University. Recently I have been
studying existing virtual worlds and stumbled upon OpenSimulator. I
have heard of it before, however I always considered OpenSimulator a
an open-source implementation of Second Life server and nothing more.
As I have found out, I was wrong - OpenSim does support other
protocols than SL. I became curious to know if you also support other
architectures than Second Life's, since to our opinion regions are not
scalable enough with Second Life. Please help me answering the
following questions about what can current version of OpenSimulator do:
1. Can OpenSim create non-square regions? Can OpenSim create
overlapping regions? Can I bound my regions also in 3rd dimension?
2. Can OpenSim separate part of the volume of a region to a
dedicated server (think of a very popular bar with lots of users
in the castle)?
3. Can OpenSim separate object scripting, location synchronization
and physics for one region into different physical servers?
4. Which one of these methods for improving scalability of a region
<http://opensim-dev.2196679.n2.nabble.com/Region-Scalability-was-Re-Hi-All-td4470793.html>
do you currently consider? Is there some method that is already
implemented?
Most of these questions are inspired by Sirikata, which was the first
world that I have learned about. I do not expect that you are able to
do all that, since you have used totally different approach to design
your system. However, I have seen attempts to extend
the architecture already (e.g. Hypergrid mode) and would like to know
how far these attempts are reaching.
Also I am looking for some scientific papers (tech reports, white
papers, scientific journal articles) related to OpenSim. Please give
me some pointers.
Thank you,
Sergiy Byelozyorov
Computer Graphics Chair
Universitat des Saarlandes
Tel.: +49 (681) 302-3837
Web: http://graphics.cs.uni-saarland.de/sbyelozyorov/
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