Mark Malewski kirjoitti: > One last question, is there any possible way to design the ReX-NG > Viewer to make the viewer "skinnable" so that it can resemble the > current SL Viewer and have the same look/appearance same menu > structure, and the same "look & feel" as the current SL Viewer?
With open source software, anything is possible. Just can be a lot of work for you :) The UI will be skinnable, using some existing UI toolkit. We are currently using GTK, at least to get the debug windows and test controls up. With GTK you can make a .glade file (xml) that defines the layout of the GUI. For more about the plans see http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/NG_Design_Document/Viewer_Architecture/User_Interface Ryan has been diving into Chromium/Webkit land now, after we tested Awesomium (a Chromium wrapper for the Navi library that is for enabling use of HTML or Flash to make UIs to Ogre apps), with the idea that we'd use Chromium as the UI library. Some days ago he got it rendering to something that could be displayed with GTK now iirc. So if you can make a web page that looks and works like the current SL viewer, you should be able to use it as the UI in RexNG, if I've understood that plan correctly and we'll indeed get the UI that way. Embedding Chromium/webkit will be used for html textures too (like gecko in the old/current viewer), but that's kind of a secondary use case that comes along :) .. in Awesomium you can also use the in-world web pages interactively, I guess we'll do that too at some point (perhaps by including Awesomium or copy-pasting the code from there to how the integration is in RexNG). That said, replicating SLviewer is not the reason for doing RexNG. It may be that the default UI we make for it won't look like current slviewer at all, but perhaps more like iPhone or some research things that use UI libs with animation support etc (we tested at Clutter in the research phase). For some UI concept drawings featuring different designs of 'catalogues', more visual than the slviewer inventory, see http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/NG_Design_Document/Avatar . Also we are not targetting the full featureset of SL. For example our company's use cases don't need almost any SL features, but need some things that SLviewer (and the protocol) doesn't currently support (e.g. making own game specific things etc). As for the 0.1 release, I don't know if it'll have anything from the actual UI yet. At least there'll be the GTK widgets for logging in etc. that are there already for you to use :) .. but I'm guessing at least some nice start screen, perhaps made in HTML + CSS. BTW regarding Chromium it may be a good idea to make the client side scripting API, that I'm working on too (besides allowing py components to the viewer), for untrusted code that comes over the network to use Javascript and the V8 engine used in Google Chrome too. But haven't looked into that yet at all, am testing with py first 'cause that we already have in place for trusted code. > Mark ~Toni > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark Malewski > <mark.malew...@gmail.com <mailto:mark.malew...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Toni, > > I'm glad to see the timeline, I also noticed a "ModRex Support of > 'Beneath the Waves" demo! Excellent! > > Do we currently have 13 full-time developers working on the viewer > right now? I really hate to ask developers for dates or > timelines, but realistically... about how long do you think before > 0.1 is released? Are you estimating about maybe July? August? > Early fall? Christmas? What are your thoughts? > > In your personal opinion, are we ahead of schedule, behind > schedule, and do we need more developers? What are your thoughts? > > Will ReX-NG have Skype support? Will ReX-NG support spatial sound? > > Thank-you for all that you do, > > Mark > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Toni Alatalo > <ant...@kyperjokki.fi <mailto:ant...@kyperjokki.fi>> wrote: > > > Mark Malewski kirjoitti: > > Does anyone know the status of ReX-NG? Is it currently under > > development, or are we still in the early planning stages? > > The implementation started in early March, and the very basics are > there: it runs, loads modules, including a networking module > that can > connect to a server and talk sludp, and an ogre renderer, tied > together > with the 'rexlogic' module etc. It gets terrain and prim data and > renders at least terrain somewhat, and we are pretty much > working on it > full time with almost all of the Rex team. > > http://dev.realxtend.org/gf/project/viewer/ is the forge with > commit log > and access to svn, where there are compile instructions too. > > > http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/NG_Design_Document/Implementation_Plan > is how planned the work in early March so you can get an idea > of what > sort of things are targeted for 0.1 now. > > So still early, but exists, functions somewhat, and is > progressing. > > > Mark > > ~Toni > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
