On 2022-02-12 00:23:12, Frans wrote: > Hi, I'm Frans Charming inWorld, and helped organize OSCC21. > During OSCC21 I asked the audience what features they would like to see in > OpenSimulator. > > We were doing our post mortem for the conference today, and thought it > might be useful to share their responses with the community. > Keep in mind these were informally asked from the audience which could be > either viewer or server features. > Maybe they are of some use. > > *What Feature would you like to see in OpenSimulator* > > 1. PBR Textures are only partially supported. It would be nice to see > more of a full implementation to help bring the virtual world up to the > standards of the gaming industry that people see when they play games.
> 2. It would be great if Open Simulator could import other formats like > FBX and/or glTF with mesh, textures, and animations able to be uploaded. > That would make content a lot easier to bring in than the archaic BVH and > DAE formats. Most modern virtual worlds work with these formats and some > even have ability to pull from places like 3dwarehouse and import avatars > from readyplayer.me. About a decade ago I added an experimental feature to Imprudence viewer. You put a specially formatted hover text on something, it would download and disploy a mesh from that URL, for about 20 different mesh formats. Also, that specially formatted hover textn got hidden. If I recall, some of my test meshes where from 3dwarehouse or something like it. No need for OpenSim support, but it was a hack. > 3. The OpenSimulator-Wiki needs a massive update. Most pages are either > confusing, outdated or incomplete. E.g. the page 'Upgrading': It says "We > don't recommend that you simply copy over your existing config files". Some > lines below it says "Copy... The opensim.ini file". And it says "SEE > Discussion at Talk:Upgrading". When you take a look at this, it says "last > modified on 24 July 2009". And why are instructions at all in a discussion > page? The Wiki software itself is outdated, it is from 2013. The privacy > policy page is empty. It requires also RL name and address of at least one > person who is responsible for the website and its content. Without that it > is neither legal nor trustworthy. The same applies to the Mantis. Ever > tried to delete your account or the contact an admin via email? Not > working. Do you think, anyone will ever take OpenSimulator seriously? > 4. On perfoming a HG teleport it should be possible to access the > welcome page of the target grid. > 5. One button publishing of Blender scenes to opensim. There was once a > project to allow people to build a scene in Blender and publish it to > opensim / realextend. There are now many many more Blender users and there > is now a huge interest in the metaverse. This is an opensource project. It > could be resurrected and bring a LOT of Blender builders into opensim. > Here's the code: https://github.com/b2rex/b2rex. Here's a youtube > description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8biEltPsWT8 Viewer side. > 6. A massively improved system avatar, which makes mesh avatars obsolete > 😛 (at least partially). Those system avatars are easier to customize, so > new/older/handicapped users have it easier. Ah if only LL stopped re-inventing non-backwards compatible systems. > 7. Copy Complete Prim and Mirror Complete prim buttons or options for > symmetrical builds Viewer side. > 8. Having the system trees and plants (those in Build window) updated to > properly made mesh objects, but also in the ways they automatically snap to > ground level. And when it is grass, it still has to be placed as mats > keeping the terrain topology. So we have a bunch of standard plants in our > libraries. At least you should publish information on how we can change the > library content by ourself. The existing system trees are butt ugly only coz in viewers their LOD is by default set to very very low, and animated trees are turned off. No need for "properly made mesh", just update viewer code so the trees look better. Mesh system trees would just waste resources. Viewer side. As for the standard Library folder in inventory, it's yet another standard for storing assets on your OpenSim server. Would be nice if they picked one and stuck with it, or at least documented them all. > 9. Chat decoupled from core I plan to add XMPP based chat. > 10. Secure HG protocol decoupled from core Sorta have something like that planned. > 11. Code modernization/modularization Working on that. > 12. Community support Not sure what is being asked here? > 13. Interoperability with other platforms In my TODO. > 14. TTS and STT Viewer side. > 15. Instead of new features I would like to see getting the many bugs > fixed and the installation simplified, because so many people just want a > local grid for content creation or tinkering. if we could make it easier > for them, they would also become members of the HG community one by one. Working on that. I have a theory that the quality of an open source project is inversely proportional to the number of forks. OpenSim and SL / OS viewers have a lot of forks. I have one to. lol > 16. The platform is an amazing and suitable tool for learning and social > networking by design. The viewer is extremely powerful and has very > advanced features, and as such, can generally be considered rather insanely > difficult to get into for a new user. Viewer devs and grid runners could > form teams, or otherwise work together, to ensure new users have acces to > that information globally, from the beginning. Things like object creatino, > inventory usage and avatar customization should be more accessible to all > users. > 17. easy access viewerr for new users 16 and 17 are the same, and viewer side. > 18. New renderer that can support VR - and then a Steam VR, Quest 2 or > VRML client. There's at least three VR viewers already, might be four. I worked on one long ago, and it wasn't the first. > 19. A kind of .htaccess, so I can route teleport attempts to deleted or > renamed regions to another region. It should in addition send a message to > the avatar, and tell him to create a new landmark. That's what fallback regions are for. > 20. A way for scripters to know under what opensim environment / > scripting engine the region is running under . THere is a OSL function to > have that reported but its rights of use is too restrictive . It should be > allowed to know that information from any scripts since X and Y engines are > not fully compatible . Yeah, tho Oh Silly Threat level system is way over the top paranoid. I already fixed most of that in my version. > 21. Programmable TEXT-TO-SPEECH in the Viewer with associated VISEMES > for AV mouth , face and eyebrows......... 14 covers TTS, and added STT. Viewer side. > 22. meta You mean Facebook / Meta's "new metaverse"? Most of the stuff they are doing and plan to do has already been done by OpenSim, and in lower graphical quality than SL from 2003. > 23. Since most grids are just small standalone ones with hypergrid > enabled, there is no need for huge MySQL databases. Running, setting up and > maintaining a MySQL instance is far over the top for such tiny grids. > SQLight is sufficient. The only problem which remains, is that the asset > database blows up quickly, because content deleted from all regions and > inventories remains forever in the database. If you are into content > creation and upload mesh and textures very often, the database blows up to > several GB, where maybe less than one is required. Therefor a kind of > garbage collector would be fine. (one can export and reimport regions and > profiles into empty databases, but that breaks up too much and is too > complex for most grid owners). So I want to see - a garbage collector for > the asset database - SQLight support for groups You can use FSASSETS for file based assets, and avoid filling up any database. However converting from database to FSASSETS leaves all the converted assets in the database as well as creating the new files. Also it didn't convert them all at once, only any time it stumble across an asset would it convert. Proper garbage collection and deletion would be great. > 24. Support for Shared Environments that Firestorm has build in. Which of the half dozen ways of sharing environments do you mean? They keep inventing new ones. LightShare was added to OpenSim over a decade ago. Most viewers support it. I've added this entire list to my personal Mantis. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@opensimulator.org http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
