How does it know what order to restore them in? what if the oar is made on a none square shape? what if the regions are not next to each other?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Oren Hurvitz <or...@kitely.com> wrote: > I want to extend the OAR format to support multiple regions. That's a > significant change, so I'd like to get some feedback about the design > before > diving in. > > A multi-region OAR will store each region in its own subdirectory. Only the > assets will remain in a top-level directory, to avoid storing multiple > copies of the assets. I.e: > > my_oar/ > assets/ - (all the assets) > region1/ > settings/ - region1.xml > objects/ - (objects from region1) > region2/ > settings/ - region2.xml > objects/ - (objects from region2) > etc. > > The file archive.xml will get a "table of contents" that lists the included > regions and their spatial relationship. Regions are listed first by row > (South to North), and within each row regions are listed West-to-East: > > <regions> > <row><region><name>region1</name></region> > <region><name>region2</name></region></row> > <row><region><name>region3</name></region> > <region><name>region4</name></region></row> > </regions> > > > The load-oar and save-oar commands will be extended as follows: > > save-oar - add a parameter called "-all". If true then save all the regions > in the simulator into a single OAR. If false or missing then save only the > current region (as today). > > load-oar - when loading a multi-region OAR, load each region into the > corresponding region in the simulator > > If the OAR contains only one region then we'll skip creating a subdirectory > for the region, and won't include the <regions> element in archive.xml. > This > means all existing OARs will be compatible with the new format. > > Any thoughts? > > Oren > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://opensim-dev.2196679.n2.nabble.com/Multi-region-OAR-format-tp7578162.html > Sent from the opensim-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > -- Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
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