[sldev] Machinima and recording movies/demos in SL

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:40 +0000, Kiwi Alfa wrote:
> As Second Life uses a client/server architecture, I propose to create
> a recording facility that would capture events sent by the server and
> store them in a potentially redistributable archive, which could also
> optionally contain textures. The recorder would be built into a custom
> viewer and would record the initial state of the world as seen by the
> client when the recording starts, and from then on would record
> messages received from the server with timestamps.

SL's dynamic, non-deterministic and network-dependent nature makes
performance tuning, and even debugging, next to impossible. There's
really no practical way to do an objective, automated, 100% repeatable
test.

Please do this. :) A "timedemo" like facility would make a lot of things
so much easier...
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