[sldev] [META][AWG]log chat of AWG meeting Friday, Oct 5, 2007

[dirk husemann]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 08-Oct-2007, at 01:43, dirk husemann wrote:
>> once you've published an asset, why would that then cause a problem?
>
> Because the UUID (or, in the long term, this URL) is used to reference
> it from scripts and from references in assets and prims, so here you
> are, you have a bunch of such secondary assets, and they're in an
> attachment on your avatar... and you walk across a grid boundary from
> one domain to another, get your attachment re-parented in the new
> domain, turn around and walk back again... that stuff has to continue
> working... even if someone else changes the texture description of the
> "flaming sword" texture while you're over there.
that would then just create a new texture, the old one would still be
available and your scripts would still be able to refer to it.

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