Re: [opensource-dev] LSL commands/parameters for light projectors
Not sure if you can see the jira history for BUG-1497, but it's been linked (correctly) as a duplicate of a very old request, SCR-163. Perhaps the feature is in limbo until it's decided to "protect" the fragile rendering pipeline by neutering scripts in yet another way. > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tillie Ariantho > To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com > Cc: > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:24:09 +0100 > Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] LSL commands/parameters for light projectors > Am 01.02.2013 20:05, schrieb Darien Caldwell: > >> Sure but I don't think that's what the JIRA was about. It's not about >> forcing people to view shadows from light sources. It's about creators being >> able to programmically modify the newer light >> parameters. (see attached picture). Prim lights can be turned on and off, >> color changed, intensity changed, radius changed, falloff changed, all from >> a script. So why can't FOV, Focus, Ambiance, and >> the projected texture be changed too? It really limits the usefulness for >> products. > > Yep, that was the idea. It's no new feature lightwise, it's just scriptifying > what's already there. > > Tillie ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
[opensource-dev] Media Strategy?
(I'm not entirely comfortable raising this topic here, but it very much does affect Snowstorm viability, so, with apologies in advance...) Certain alt-matching systems have attained enough grid saturation that there is widespread hesitancy to enable Media at all. (https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-24746) One part of the problem is that _AGENT-specific parcel media commands force a viewer connection regardless of the "Allow Media to auto-play" setting. Even with that changed (presumably, "corrected"), heuristic matching based on regular Parcel Media and Audio streams is easily done. To date, it is unclear what (if any) plans LL has for addressing this matter, and that rather ties the hands of developers, to know what (if any) technical response is appropriate. The developer of one such system has publicly claimed that he is privy to LL's plans about this issue; if opensource developers have been similarly informed, it would be news to me. In lieu of LL guidance, a patch has been developed for one 1.x-based TPV that would at least reduce the threat from the Media vector, by inserting a user-selectable white- / black-list before enabling stream connection. This approach does not conveniently apply to 2.x-based viewers with Shared Media. Regardless of interface, it is unclear that any user-controlled filtering can be effective for Shared Media, given the potential number of simultaneously proffered sources. A possible approach to addressing these threats is for LL to interpose an IP anonymizing service at its network periphery through which all connections including streaming media would pass. This would have significant bandwidth implications, and may also interfere with certain third-party content as long as studios and publishers persist with geo-specific licensing. At this point, I think developers really need to know LL's plans to address these this matter. Personally, I'm especially interested in the fate of Shared Media, which seems gravely jeopardized. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
Re: [opensource-dev] Retaining Newbies (Was: The Plan for Snowglobe)
> 3 it would help if we could read the language in use by the viewer and > if the resident could be informed as to what languages are available > in that area (or maybe stick a translator thing in the default newbie > pack??) [...] > -- > Robert L Martin In case it helps, a script can almost always learn the viewer language with llGetAgentLanguage(). I had a multilingual info station for adult verification that did that, and used agent-specific parcel media to show excerpts of wiki pages in the viewer's choice of language. I learned that almost nobody hides their viewer language. But a few folks took umbrage, insisting that they only set their viewer language to Outer Slobovian because they liked the way it punctuated numbers, or some damned thing, and I shouldn't assume that they wanted content to match the language of their viewer. Were I to do it over again, I might simply have national flags for them to select, and keep track of who clicked which flag. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
