I think he's asking if there is any projection function that would automatically convert screen coordinates to local prim coordinates.
Cheers, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Lawson English <lengli...@cox.net> wrote: > Rustam Rakhimov wrote: >> >> >> >> I think you didn't get my question. >> >> I wanna realize something like MS Paint program. LIke you will choose >> some paint brush then using this brush you will draw anything on BOX >> for example. And the main thing what I want is, to be available draw >> from any point, I mean from any angle you be allowed to draw. >> >> That's my GOAL >> > > There are facilities for the media plugin to track mouse and keyboard > input. I suspect they are based on the same internal viewer functions > that send data to the touch functions in LSL. Getting them to work with > the media plugin may be reasonably easy. The trick would be letting > everyone else in a sim see them. Using LSL touch functions you can rez > temp prims at various positions along the surface of the prim you are > drawing on. The drawback is that it may take hundreds, or even a > thousand or so prims to make a complicated drawing and much of it will > be gone within a few seconds that you finish the drawing if not before, > but at least everyone else can see them. > > An alternative method is to use a drawing app displayed on a webpage and > let the user draw on the webpage. This requires the webkit media plugin > to work and I'm not sure how reliable it is yet but everyone watching > the webpage could see what is being drawn. > > Other alternatives would be some kind of VNC on a prim ala Aimee's > Recursive Life demo. That goes back to the question of how to display > the image for everyone else to see. > > My own [proposed] solution is to do some kind of VNC thing via a > mediaplugin so that the lecturer/artist can have realtime control of > what is drawing, and then rebroadcast it via streaming media. This would > cause about a 10 second lag for the audience from what I have seen and > from talking to people who use media streaming for lectures. > > There are no doubt more complicated and interesting strategies > available. I'm hoping to get rendering from squeak smalltalk to media > plugin working locally reasonably soon now. Getting it to the point > where others can see it will be a lot more work, I suspect. > > I've got a few diagrams and examples of what people have already > done/are trying to do listed on a wiki page: > > > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Saijanai_Kuhn/Plugins_discussion > > > > Lawson > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
