[sldev] Yeah for Second Life 1.23.2 (2324)

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Thu May 28 16:39:42 PDT 2009


Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
> Hi Lawson,
>
> On May 28, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Lawson English wrote:
>   
>> There was a discussion today in one of the scripter's groups about  
>> accessing the map textures from LSL. Will it be/is it
>> possible to use the http texture URLs directly from LSL to put the  
>> maps in-world?
>>     
>
> I'm not an LSL scripter but my understanding is that you cannot fetch  
> asset using http get in LSL (for plenty of reason including security).  
> As such, it's not possible to fetch map tiles from LSL.
>
> That being said, the map tiles organization and access methods are  
> publicly documented on the wiki:
> 	https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Webmap_AP
>
> The way to build the http string to access the map tile you want is  
> specifically described here:
> 	https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/ 
> Webmap_API#Accessing_map_images_directly
>
>   


Thanks much. Will pass that back to the group.


Lawson


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