Hi Toni, this looks very promising - thumbs up :-) Cheers Pedro
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Toni Alatalo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Toni Alatalo wrote: > > WebNaali demo with actual client functionality is up. > It currently works only in stable Chrome, version 13. We'll look at Firefox > support next. > Client is at http://www.realxtend.org/webnaali/ws3dclient.html > > > Some people have been over, thanks for testing, feedback has been good .. > at least from the people in the in-world chat, as those are the ones that > got in :p .. took a screenshot, > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3157753/rex/webnaali_01.png > > Is a crude early version but works for the very basics. > > ~Toni > > It doesn't have progress bars, and it takes long for the scene to download > with the textures, and during that you mostly just see a white page now. Be > patient. > > The Tundra server this connects to is running at playsign.fi. You can > connect there with the native client too (release 1.0.8) -- address > playsign.fi and default port (2345), no auth. At least on a powerful > machine is fun to have both native and browser client connected there, and > move with either one and see it move in the other window etc. I'll make a > demo video of this when get the chance. > > The scene has avatar and chat application running, and those work > interoperably: both native and browser clients get avatars, see each others > avatars move (sliding feet without animation in WebNaali now), and the > simple text chat works (currently WebNaali users don't show in the chat > participants list that the native version has, but everything they say shows > there as said by 'WebSocket'.) > > It uses the same TOY lobby scene as the rendering test we published earlier > -- that works in all recent versions of Chrome (the 14-17 beta&dev versions) > and in recent Firefoxes .. so if you don't have Chrome13 but want to see the > scene anyway, this works: > http://www.realxtend.org/webnaali/toylobby/scenetest.html > > Later beta & dev versions of Chrome have changed the WebSockets protocol, > and our server end is not compatible yet (should be easy to get working by > updating to recent libraries, people seem to work on those every day and we > have tested those now). So the actual client doesn't work with those now. > Firefox support should be simple to add. > > So it's up for testing, let's see what happens, and we'll improve and make > a video and announce it a bit bigger on the blog etc then. The code is > straight the master branch of WebNaali from github, we consider it 0.1 now. > Kudos to Rauli for the bulk of the work! > > ~Toni > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org > > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org > -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
