[sldev] Re: Script Synchronization (Was [SCULPTIES] New Scripting Functions)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 29-Sep-2007, at 13:51, Andre Roche wrote:
> Sounds to me like something that can already be done, just not as
> reliably as it could be done.

It's not just that it's not reliable, but this would be a sync that  
would be managed purely by the client. It wouldn't require any  
network traffic after downloading the prims. Syncing updates to  
script events increases traffic as well as being jerky.

> Do we need a new setting/event based on the same concept as audio  
> master/slave?

I don't know whether it would be enough to use audio master for this,  
I have only read the documentation.

For a single linkset, the following client-side optimizations should  
be safe:

1. If more than one looped event in the linkset has the same period,  
sync all the looped events with that period together.
2. If any looped events in the linkset have periods that are in an  
integral ratio with any other events in that linkset, sync them  
together.

This may actually simplify or optimize code in looped events, by  
allowing timed operations to be executed concurrently... AND it may  
be enough to satisfy the original multi-prim animation requirement.

As an aside, I'm not getting copies of my own messages to this list  
any more, and I'm set to get them. Anyone else seeing this?