[vos-d] avatars anyone?

[Peter Amstutz]

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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Reed Hedges wrote:

> TerAngreal has some bugs regarding avatar creation and preferences. 
> What it ought to do is have some set of preferred avatar properties 
> (name, mesh model, texture, etc.)  When it connects to a remote site, it 
> should ask the factory if present to create an avatar. Then it should 
> ask the user if he wants to override the properties that the factory 
> gave him (such as mesh data) with his own preferences.

I'm not sure they even qualify as bugs, it's more that the behavior isn't 
even implemented.  It hasn't been high priority when there are more 
fundamental issues to fix (like trying to get VOS to compile on OS X!)

> Probably the factory should create new objects with access control that 
> allows only the requesting client full access. Or use a policy named by 
> the requesting client.

Correct.  That is what it should do.  Currently the default VOS server 
doesn't assign an identity to connections, though.

> Factories in general are kind of messy and may end up having some 
> revision done on them.  They are also complex to use and could use a 
> really easy API on the client side.

Why do you say they are messy?  Perhaps what really needs to be done is I 
need to get around to implementing so-called COD factories, in which you 
upload a COD (or could be XOD or ...) file and it loads and validates that 
for your avatar (or for any other vobject structure).

If you have any suggestions on how it could be better, feel free to speak 
up :-)

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