[sldev] Re: [Gridnauts] What's the difference between...

[Lawson English]

Colin Withers wrote:
> Sorry for asking this basic question. I joined the Gridnauts program 
> but due to unforseeen RL commitments I have not had any chance yet to 
> get too involved. I do have a fully developed OpenSim grid of my own.
>
> What I would like to ask is this:
>
> Imagine I am in SL (or the beta grid). I then log out, and then log 
> into my OpenSim. Now imagine I have a viewer where this process is 
> automated and while it is doing the log-out/log-in process a teleport 
> splash screen appears with a progress bar. I am now in my OpenSim 
> having 'apparently' teleported, but I notice that my appearance is not 
> the same as when I started, and I have not the inventory I started with.
>
> What's the difference between that, and what the Gridnauts are 
> currently doing?

With the gridnauts viewer, you are logging into an "AgentDomain" which 
then vouches for you to each region/grid you decide to visit. There are 
currently many dozens of test sims/grids that accept this authorization 
process so when you leave a sim or grid, you're not logging out of one 
sim/grid and logging into another. In the long run, we hope to keep 
inventory management and group IM services going even if you don't 
bother to visit any sim/grid at all. This will allow very lightweight 
clients as a side benefit and should relieve a lot of burden on the sims 
right now, which have to do EVERYTHING.


Lawson