[sldev] Local textures for fast editing; was: SL 2.0?

[Nexii Malthus]

Is that meant as sarcastic?

- Nexii

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com> wrote:
> With about a half an hour extra coding and a couple simple processes you
> could use that to lash up an alternate texture delivery network,
> bypassing the grid's own asset servers entirely, if you wanted to. It'd
> be relatively trivial. Heck, I can think of a couple existing
> infrastructures that could be overloaded for delivery and routing.
>
> Granted, there would be concerns of trust and security, of course.
>
> On 19/01/2010 7:21 PM, Nexii Malthus wrote:
>> Fully agree to Stickman here.
>>
>> Seems like it might be a fairly small challenge to implement, skipping
>> the upload pipeline and a mechanism to keep/refresh the asset locally.
>>
>> It doesn't have to be fantastically complicated, the feature would
>> serve a single purpose. It ought to be able to handle multiple local
>> textures though, not just a single one, just because it could.
>>
>> - Nexii
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Stickman <stickman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-14320
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> That JIRA describes quite another thing.  Although it gets around the upload
>>>> charge, it still requires an upload.  It is still done on the servers.
>>>>
>>> You make a very good point. Local files would be much faster. That's a
>>> good advantage to local files. Server files would let other people see
>>> the changes, which is a different advantage.
>>>
>>> Your goal you state is exactly my goal. Make editing simpler and faster.
>>>
>>> But in his Jira it says:
>>> "If it points to a local file, that cuts out the upload time AND the
>>> download time..."
>>>
>>> He points out the existence of "temporary uploads" as existing in
>>> other clients, then expands on the idea in the same way I did. Like
>>> me, he doesn't care if it uses local files or these temporary uploads,
>>> he just wants textures to auto-update while you're building.
>>>
>>> That's the whole point: Auto-updating temporary assets (server or
>>> local, who cares) so you can see your work in progress.
>>>
>>> If they were done serverside, I'd handle the "lag" or wait of a round
>>> trip and love the fact other people could watch. If they were done
>>> clientside, I'd love the speed of change and deal with the fact other
>>> people couldn't see me work. I just want the tool.
>>>
>>> -Stickman
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