Cool!
Your additions to VNet sound great Jeff!
I was hoping to do some work on VNet a while back, but the people I was
working for decided it wasn't such a high priority after all and put me on
other work till they went bust. Since then I have been working on my own VR
fiction project which is great, but means I have no income, so I am racing
to finish it before my money runs out.
However I have had some ideas about the reason for the choking bug in VNet.
In about a month I might be able to make some time to look at the source again.
I'm here to test anytime you want too.
Massive multiuser would best be done by decentralising it. I have some
ideas on that too. I have a feeling that absorbing the server stuff into
the client stuff and running it all on the client machine may be the
solution to this. Instead of everybody sending out position updates to a
central server they send updates to each person logged in to the same world
who is standing near them in that world. This would cut down on net traffic
and possibly eliminate the source of the choking bug, while simplifying the
code and making it much more scaleable. But that's not all! We will throw
in a complete set of steak knives absolutely free... :-)
Best wishes,
- Miriam
At 01:53 PM 17/05/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>just a "heads up" to the list...
>
>I am not teaching this Summer
>specifically so that I can do the development work
>which I have been putting off all this past year-and-a-half
>due to the press of getting used to teaching...
>
>I will be doing a major revision of VNet over this Summer
>which I am tentatively calling "VNet2"
>
>my major goals for this rev are:
>
> o persistent users and user-states via JDBC
> o extreme scaleability improvements
> [perhaps to "massively-multiuser" level]
> o extreme efficiency improvements
> o one server managing multiple worlds
> o no-logoff/on for teleportation between worlds
> if managed by same server
>
>jeffs
>
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>Jeff Sonstein
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Information Technology
>Rochester Institute of Technology
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>there are just undocumented features
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