It’s been a long year and I’ve done a bunch of misc project support but haven’t done any of the larger projects I listed last year. No major deliverables.
So, what’s up now? I’m still interested in the OpenSimulator virtual worlds but have been spending time supporting various spin-offs:
So, what do I want to accomplish in the next few months? Some possibilities are:
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AIS Inventory: add newer SL inventory interfaces to OpenSimulator. This means coding the inventory capability. It would contain the base code with the HTTP interface separate so that the code could be used for both OpenSimulator core (as a region module) and in NGC as a service.
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ASync Interface for libreMetaverse: Several viewer projects are using libreMetaverse as their connection to the simulator. The internal API needs an update from the callback form to the newer Task model. Along the way, I’d like to document the internal API and thus make it easier for new people to use.
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OpenSimulator interface for GLTF content: I had the odd idea of creating a “capability” (modular API unit of the client/simulator interface) that returned GLTF versions of assets. That is, rather than inventing a new way of fetching GLTF items like I did for the Basil viewer , a viewer could see that the feature is available (in the list of available capabilities received at login) and thus fetch the GLTF versions. This is would incorporate convoar code in a way usable by different systems. I think this also might include adding WebTransport communication connection to OpenSimulator for browser based viewers.
The last project is a slightly different approach to what I did for Basil. I had created a new protocol and built region modules (Ragu, Loden, …) to implement the protocol. I still like the idea of creating a Wayland-like protocol for separating the viewer from world logic but that’s for another time.