[sldev] Viewer with University of MichiganStereoscopicViewerpatch released

[Sylvio Deutsch]

That would solve any problem... how we convince Lindens to do that short of 
threating to kill someone??

Yes, I remember reading about a scientific research somewhere in SL with 
plants that grow and reproduce themselves, and researches go changing 
weather and other parameters to see what happens.
But I don´t know how are these plants made, if more with number data than 
graphics.

There is also someone that developed (prim) shadows for trees, very nice, 
the shadows follow sun movement, grow and shrink.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Argent Stonecutter" <secret.argent at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [sldev] Viewer with University of 
MichiganStereoscopicViewerpatch released


> On 29-Nov-2007, at 23:44, Sylvio Deutsch wrote:
>> Yes!!! Right when I joined SL (and this list) I remember seeing an  email
>> talking about this in greater detail, from which I understood  nothing at 
>> the
>> time.
>> Now it makes all sense, no doubt.
>> My only question is, could new types of trees be added? And separate
>> textures for trunks and leaves, surely... plus fruits (((:
>
> I believe that new types of trees could be added. The client would  take 
> the llTreeSystem parameters and look them up in the internal   table of 
> tree types. If it finds that it's already there it would use  that ID end 
> entry, otherwise it would copy the base trees.xml entry  (if there's one 
> referenced in the parameter list) into a new table  entry, apply the 
> modifications from the parameter list, and create a  new type. It might 
> also be useful to use a fuzzy match: if you have  one person specifying a 
> tree type 4 but with 10% longer branches, and  another the same type but 
> with 12% longer branches, they might be  treated as "close enough" and 
> both would be assigned the same tree  type (say, with 11% longer 
> branches).
>
>> The idea of growing trees is amazing!
>
> Someone has already implemented a growing prim tree... you drop a  planter 
> and it takes a week to grow to full size.
>
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