Carlo Wood wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:40:51PM +0000, Aimee Trescothick wrote: > >> The easiest and most versatile way to do this is almost certainly to use the >> existing Webkit plugin, by providing the application as a web service that >> you >> could place on a prim like any other webpage, with synchronisation being >> handled by the web server in the same way as things like >> http://etherpad.com/ >> As a generic web service you are then not limited to using it only in-world, >> you could open the same webpage on your iPhone or whatever and have what you >> draw appear directly on the prim in SL. Once you've finished, save the image >> and upload it to SL for permanent use. >> > > It's not that straight forward if you want to be able to draw on the prim. > The most interesting application of this is drawing clothes and skins > directly onto the avatar. That will require *new* code to convert mouse > position > and direction into pixel coordinates and intensity of the underlaying > texture(s). > > Which goes back to questions of user-interface and feedback.
It would be relatively straightforward (in comparison at least) to place a proxy of your avi in a complicated 3D painting/modeling app, and work on it in the regular GUI of the 3D app. The changes are just echoed on the avatar "in-world" (as displayed locally by your client). Ideally, the interface should actually be part of the client's interface, as it is for the SL building tools, but that's going to require a lot of thought. Its theoretically doable, as the puppeteering code shows, but creating a robust 3D widget toolkit for the client that can be manipulated by a plugin is going to be an interesting task. Lawson _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
