[sldev] Concept of "loaded avatar" was changed?

[Aimee Trescothick]

On 12 May 2009, at 13:38, Tateru Nino wrote:
> You'd think so, wouldn't you? You should both have each-other's  
> textures already cached at the very least. Unless the texture IDs  
> change in a sim-crossing.... and they shouldn't do that, right? If  
> those IDs aren't changing, then it looks like there's a false  
> discard going on.


As far as I know, baked textures are only held as temporary textures  
on the sim, so they won't be available in the new region after a  
teleport until the client uploads them on arrival.

However, if your client has baked textures cached for another avatar  
from the previous region ideally it should continue using those until  
it is able to obtain fresh ones from the new region, rather than  
clouding the avatar. That would give a more seamless experience than  
what appears to happen now.

The only minor "issue" I can see with that at first inspection, is if  
the other person changes clothes before following you, in which case  
their  appearance to you would be out of date until their new baked  
textures are available.

Aimee.