Very cool. Extra cool when the realextend support is fully integrated into OpenSim. The SL client is sort of your "renderer" for the scene in context. And a nice use of the OGP protocol stuff. Very paper worthy IMO.
Mike On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 20:44 +0000, Toni Alatalo wrote: > Hi, > > this is a very early minimal experiment so nothing usable yet, but > perhaps an interesting idea for users and I'm interested in getting > feedback on the idea. Blender as a client using LibOMV, a two way live > connection between Blender and Opensim .. you can move a prim in a > viewer and it moves in Blender(*), or move an object in Blender and it > moves immediately on the sim so the same movement is visible for other > viewers too. > > A screenshot and more info, and the blend with the setup and source, at > http://playsign.fi/engine/BlenderOMV . Was planning to take a video, but > fraps captures only a single window and didn't have time anymore to test > other tools, so just a still now which is a bit boring. > > Had thought for a long time whether this would work, so was happy to be > able to test it a bit today :) .. dunno if anything actually useful > could be made like this, perhaps, at least for basic scene editing > (placing objects with nicer tools). We'll be probably thinking about > this and other ways to integrate with Blender, perhaps on the viewer > side, when work on Realxtend continues in August (in July the team is on > holiday). > > ~Toni > > (*) On Blender side the change shows only after you activate the window > triggering a redraw, a well known limitation of old Blender for network > synching. This will be fixed with the upcoming 2.5 version with the > rewritten internal event system, later this year. From Blender to > Opensim the sync is immediate, shows at the same time in Hippo as you > move the mouse in Blender. > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
