This time one year ago we began a long process of re-imagining realXtend as a next-generation virtual world platform (Project Corus: http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Main_Page#Project_Corus). We have set very high goals for ourselves, but a journey of 1000 miles begins with single steps. We are today proud to announce the second milestone in this effort, the developer preview releases of our innovative Naali client viewer, and Taiga reference server.
Antti, our fearless figure-head and mascot, has put fingers to keyboard to put up a blog post sharing his thoughts here: http://realxtend.blogspot.com/2009/11/002-preview-release-of-next-generation.html Naali is a modern, BSD-license, cross-platform, component-oriented client viewer; built from the ground up in C++ and Python; using Qt, OGRE 3D, XMPP, GStreamer, and other established, flexible, open source libraries. http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Naali Taiga is our reference server for Naali, leveraging OpenSim and Cable Beach, as well as our own custom extensions, including support for log-in with OpenID, inventory access over WebDAV, server scripting with Python, and mesh-based in-world object. http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Taiga As a developer release, the code is still very much alpha-quality, and only represents a small glimpse of what we intend for the future. It lacks many important features for regular use, and is likely to frustrate anyone not comfortable with debugging a work in progress. We are however hoping that you'll take a look at what we have so far, let us know if anything is not working for you, give us helpful suggestions, or even give us a hand directly by submitting patches. Thank you very much for your continued support and help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---