From 7341af59640b65d409a09bec1ff891bd9e40b8ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Walter Seikel Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:24:40 +1000 Subject: Shift some docs around, and link to them. --- docs/portals.txt | 106 ------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 106 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/portals.txt (limited to 'docs/portals.txt') diff --git a/docs/portals.txt b/docs/portals.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 591460b..0000000 --- a/docs/portals.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -SledjHamrs killer feature, or one of them. - -A major reason for SledjHamr is to break down the garden walls. We do -this by allowing free travel between peoples virtual worlds. In OpenSim -this is done by HyperGrid, which is clunky and hard to use. Second Life -deliberately has no such system. Even worse, it's hard convincing people -in SL to visit your grid, coz it's all very hard, again due to -deliberate policy decisions by LL. LL knows their content is the key to -their business, even though almost all of it was created by the users, -LL locks it up tight. So people visiting OpenSim grids from SL have to -create a new avatar from scratch, which is such a major pain that most -people balk at that and don't bother. And they can't bring their -inventory with them, inventory they paid for and spent years collecting. - -In SledjHamr, as well as allowing completely unrestricted and easy -access to lots of content, we should make it easy to travel between -virtual worlds. Part of this is to include compatibility layers in -separate modules to be compatible with what ever virtual world systems -are around. You would still need to create accounts and log onto those -worlds though. How can we mix them up? I imagine easy to use portal -objects. Let's start with the basics, and work out some more complex -examples. - -As mentioned in the no_accounts.txt document, every SledjHamr user has -their own little world running on their computer by default when they -start up the extantz client. There is a star gate on this default -world, an already setup portal that can connect to a bunch of default -external worlds. The user can use this star gate, and other peoples -portals to travel around other peoples worlds. Initially this could be -using OpenSim and its HyperGrid system. Later it would be SledjHamr -style worlds as well. - -A portal would be like Cobalt style portals, you can see the destination -in real time, and step through it to go there. They can be permanent, -or temporary. You can carry them in your inventory, they could just be -normal scripted in world objects. - -So you travel around the virtual worlds, meeting people, and you want to -invite some one to your home, or a group of people. You right click on -them and select "Invite them home" from the menu. Extantz knows your -home world, that's where you started and it's running on the same -computer. Extantz communicates to that home server, or starts it up -first. The home server adds this new person to it's access list. -Extant creates a portal object and offers it to the person, so they can -rez it anywhere. Or you could rez this portal object in the world you -are in. Either way, once the portal is in a world, it connects to your -home world, showing a view of your front gate, maybe including your -lovely garden in your front yard. The portal connects to the "front -gate" of your home world. - -Any one on your home worlds access list can step through this portal to -get to your home world. Simple to use, no figuring out HyperGate URLs -and copy pasting them, no manual messing with hard to use acces systems. -Though it would still be possible to create URLs to in world places, to -store as landmarks, to email to someone, or to copy'n'paste into -farcebook. - -Portals rezzed in world could be temporary, and vanish after who ever -you invited to come stepped through it. Or time out several minutes -later so as not to clutter the universe with left over portals. Or -deleted by the owner / managers of the world you left them, or deleted -yourself from your own world. Portals could be permanent. Say you -found a larger world that you and the owner decide you wish to be a part -of. Portals could be left on both worlds linking them. The "portal" -could just be reconfiguring each world to locate the other world near -them, like neighbouring sims. Still, that should be done via the portal -interface, just a simple click. - -Portals can be fully open if you want to run a public world. People can -be banned. Or private worlds with specific groups and people allowed. -Similar to many web sites, you could have your own account system on -your world, people with accounts are allowed to build, or allowed to -with certain limits, or are the only ones allowed to visit. Privacy can -be applied to the portal, only those that can step through can see -through, or semi private, you can see a limited area, but not step -through. A portal could include a "door bell", people that want to -visit ring the door bell, someone might answer and let them in, but can -chat with them across the portal first. Perhaps getting dressed first. - -For those hard to reach places, I'm looking at you SL, a portal could be -coded as an LSL script in a SL prim object that you keep in your SL -inventory. It can operate in two modes, depending on who is looking. -If someone using a SledjHamr aware client looks, they see the usual -portal view mentioned above, and can easily step through it as usual. -Others would see a still photo of the view through the portal, or -perhaps a live video stream if the other world server has enough -bandwidth to support that. Or they could see just a logo if the world -owner hasn't bothered to pay LL to upload a suitable photo. If the user -of the viewer that is not SledjHamr aware clicks on or tries to step -through the portal, they are sent to a web page that lets them download -SledjHamr aware clients, with instructions on what to do to actually get -to that world. - -Once a user of that closed world steps through the portal using a -SledjHamr aware client, their client knows what that person looks like, -and has access to that persons inventory in that closed world, so they -can bring it all with them with no need to do anything other than step -through. The user remains logged on to the closed world, coz SledjHamr -needs no actual accounts. What their avatar is left doing in the closed -world for others to see is an open question. Perhaps sitting on some -chair on the portal prims, snoozing. Just had a better idea, the user -gets a new tab, in their original world they can wander off again and do -stuff, and in the new world they can do new stuff. Likely LL will ban -this in their TOS, and ban SLedjHamr aware viewers, they are anal like -that, and want to own your content to keep people locked in their walled -garden. Here's a SledjHamr for you all, break those walls open. B-) -- cgit v1.1