[opensource-dev] allowing client side AO's to swtich with outfits

[Erin Mallory]

I doubt it would be that hard to establish a way to ensure that the config could be exported to an easy to read table that can have the option to save to either a file on the computer (for easy reference) or as a single notecard within the ao folder that other viewers can read and allow you to import either manually or individually.  An additional hot tip when you mouse over the folder could tell you what AO is associated with the outfit.  
As someone that has to constantly pack and unpack things on my two oldest accounts in order to even be able to get my inventory to fully load, the idea of having to add another item to each outfit folder I make pretty much destroys any advantage to having a system that could associate the ao with the outfit.  I use in client ao systems to reduce attachments, lag, and inventory clutter.  A system that relied on objects in each outfit folder would be a huge step backward for me. 


> CC: opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
> From: secret.argent at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] allowing client side AO's to swtich with outfits
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:46:43 -0500
> To: angel_of_crimson at hotmail.com
> 
> On 2012-04-16, at 00:50, Erin Mallory wrote:
> > Why would it need to be in the inventory taking up space when it would ONLY do the same thing that either of these options do?
> 
> I have over 300 outfits, each with their own set of AO choices... maybe 15 or 20 different sets of AOs depending on the shape of the base avatar in the outfit, attachments, and general style of the avatar. I change avatars radically, maybe a couple of times a minute when it makes sense. I already have an appropriate AO item in the inventory for each avatar... changing them gradually over to calling the item #AO or moving its attachment point and turning the scripts off or changing the script to one that chats the Notecard to the viewer on attach, that I am willing to do.
> 
> Under your scheme I will first have to manually configure the AO into the viewer, then associate it with the inventory. Then I will no longer have any record in the inventory of what AOs are associated with each outfit. If I'm using SL from another computer, or I lose the profile directory on my computer, all of that's gone, forever. There's no way I'd ever be able to reconstruct it.
> 
> And for what benefit? A barely measurable drop in my script time (which is already very low), a savings of 16k of script memory (and people are routinely walking around with megabytes of scripts), and possibly better behavior in laggy areas. It's simply not worth the effort and risk.
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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