Hi Peter and Sergey, Well for now serialization of userData is made blindly. I guess unsafe things will be serialized the same way.
And yes, I guess metadata will be a base for more applications, but as long as there is no "hard" requirement in the basement, I don't think about coding things towards actor/entities management in a first implementation. Don't you think, Sergey? Cheers, Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ ----- "Peter Amstutz" <peter.amst...@tseboston.com> a écrit : > I think the metadata system under discussion will be useful for > associating scene graph nodes with their owner entities. This is > necessary for various scene-graph oriented operations like picking, > custom culling, etc that need to refer back to your application domain > entities . You certainly could use it to store your entity components, > but that should be up to the user. I think we need to be careful to > avoid scope creep. > > This discussion does bring up one related issue, though. Regarding > serialization, I had been thinking that the metadata system should > only be allowed to contain data that can be safely serialized. I > realize now that is wrong, for precisely this issue that the metadata > system will be used to hold pointers to application domain entities > that are opaque to the serialization system. > > Peter > > On 4/20/2011 8:30 AM, Sergey Kurdakov wrote: > > Hi Sukender, > > However I think the entity thing is far more "high level" than just > metas. that is correct. > > still there is need to assemble metas as objects into something useful > and > also exchange info ( message system ). > > this functionality might be a separate addition, but it's presence ( > or > considering it's use with metas; I'm not sure, but it might add some > additional fields, methods etc ) will greatly extend 'use' cases > to jump start to apply your metas in projects. > > Regards > Sergey _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > -- > Peter Amstutz > Senior Software Engineer > Technology Solutions Experts > Natick, MA > 02131 > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
