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

[Melinda Green]

Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
> Aimee Trescothick escreveu:
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>> On 12 May 2009, at 13:38, Tateru Nino wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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 their  appearance to you would be out of date until their new baked  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.
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> Shouldn't the servers share this info between them?

I think it would be overkill to make sims share baked textures 
peer-to-peer, however there seems to me to be a simpler way to share 
baked textures which is to turn them into ordinary assets. Each avatar 
would only have a small, finite number of these so I wouldn't expect 
them put too much of a burden on the servers. I could even imagine good 
reasons to make baked textures part of the agent data, but in the 
short-run I wonder whether the simple solution would be to make baked 
textures into ordinary assets.

-Melinda