[sldev] Re: Plugin architecture

[Mike Monkowski]

Dale Glass wrote:
> LSL scripts will never be able to do some things. Like for example changing 
> how rendering works. Or integrating things like text to speech and voip.

The reason I asked about plugins is because I'm trying to figure out how 
to implement lip-sync.  After looking at the code and reading the 
replies in this forum, I can't see how a plugin could ever work for 
lip-sync.  I can't see rendering being done in a plugin either.  TTS 
probably could because TTS can get text from the message stream and add 
to the audio stream.

It seems to me that plugins must have limited capabilities based on 
limited access to data.

LSL operates on objects, so it would make sense that if you want to 
operate on objects in a way that's currently not possible, extend LSL. 
If you want to operate on the message stream, then use a message stream 
plugin.  I could imagine audio plugins and access to floaters that you 
could fill with whatever content you like, but I can't imagine access to 
all of the internal data from a plugin.

Mike