[sldev] Puppettering Branch

[Felix Duesenburg]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> Anyway, to cut a long story short we (myself and Robla) thought about 
>> it and said "Well, if they can't, maybe the SLDev crew can do 
>> something with this" and with that we decided to publish the code to 
>> you guys.
> 
> What I'd like to do with this would require server-side access.
> 
> I don't want to drag my hand with my mouse, I want to tell my hand 
> "track this prim".
> 

Has anyone thought of this... well I'm sure many have before! Teaching 
in SL is already a big thing, and it could be much much bigger if we had 
better tools to simulate a real classroom situation. Better control of 
an avatar's hand would be a hinge for a ton of enhancements.

I've taken some language courses in SL and it always was glaringly 
obvious that we missed a pointing device. A laser pointer or just a 
stick. It should be possible to translate the mouse position over a 
certain prim (the white/black board) into the target of a "look at" 
function to rotate the avatar's hand (or what it's holding) accordingly.

More sophisticated, I'd like to use one of those graphics pads, capture 
what I'm drawing into a video stream (Gimp + CamStudio ?) and let that 
appear on the said white board, and together with the positional 
information from the same graphics pad (it's functionally the same as a 
mouse) simulate my avatar drawing it live there before everyone's eyes.

Is that code going in a direction to enable such a thing?

Felix

PS: Actually, to me this sounds like a worthy project for a dedicated 
group even more than - forgive me - the NAV project. Immersion and 
realism would get a quantum leap forward and there is business in this.