[sldev] Machinima and recording movies/demos in SL

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-01-17, at 08:48, Kiwi Alfa wrote:
> In my ideas, the recorder was originally conceived as a proxy,
> actually, but after thinking about it I realised that it would be a
> lot easier if it was implemented directly in the client; after all, it
> knows exactly what its own internal structure is. In addition, doing
> it in the client would make it less of a memory hog, as that state
> wouldn't need to be duplicated in two apps. Heck, I believe that
> there's already an option in the debug menus to dump the current state
> of the world as the client sees it, so if nothing else it shouldn't be
> too hard to piggyback on that and then record deltas. (It's not the
> way I would do it and it would probably be likely to slow the client
> down a great deal, but it shows how easy the main part of this could
> potentially be.)

One advantage of doing it outside the client is that you would be  
able to upgrade the client without reapplying all the changes made in  
implementing the proxy.