On to, 2010-05-27 at 23:03 +0300, Jani Pirkola wrote: > I recall that Naali viewer did not work yet with the grid mode, but is > that true anymore or what are the plans regarding that? > I ask this to know whether I can plan grid mode for my realxtend > servers, or should I use exclusively stand alone servers with > teleports in between?
It has always worked with grid mode, in the sense that you can connect to some region in a grid (I was testing with mostly osgrid and sciencesim when joined the dev over a year ago). It didn't have a UI for choosing the region before, but it is there now .. both in the classic forms and in the ether cards. But it doesn't currently have multiregion support, so you only see one region at a time. The current version has teleporting, the teleport menu shows a list of neighbouring regions and allows to type in a name as well. Antti Kokko implemented that recently and has been looking into grid/world map support now. This is not some real sl teleporting protocol now, but actually does logout-login, but works well (i've tested also on osgrid). Lasse investigated adding multiregion support early this year thoroughly and made a plan, http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Multiregion_support_implementation_plan . It is substantial work feasible. In the roadmap Antti has scheduled it for August, http://an.org/realxtend/rex_roadmap2010-11052010.html (Antti should publish this soon, this is a quite up-to-date snapshot i put up for previews earlier). I have been insisting that we test what we've now been calling 'big regions' first, i.e. opensim configured for arbitrary region sizes (it is a compile time constant there). E.g. a single 10km*10km region to see what happens. Am not talking about megaregions, which are communicated as separate regions for the viewers, but just one normal region of that size. That shouldn't require any code changes for the objects to show correctly in Naali in that area. Such non-256*256m regions probably work fine, we'll see soon, so I think we'll then draw the conclusion that when multiregion support is added it shouldn't break big region support (possibly they can be optional though, if grids of arbitrarily sized regions are too complex first). For later dev, towards the end of the year, it is interesting to see what happens with Intel's current efforts with server side client manager proxys, 'cause those hide the region division from clients (like I guess sensible protocols do, when the division is for server side load sharing). For setups like osgrid, where different regions are hosted by different people in different places, multiregion support might still be required even if that client manager system hides regions from viewers otherwise. > Jani ~Toni -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
