[Threedsia-dev] Discussions on threedsia-dev

[peter s. <ka...@zd...>]

Dear fellow coders,

the mail traffic of the past days was interesting to read but
shouldn't we use the forum for that on sourceforge? i have
three reasons for this :

1. it was sometimes confusing which mails folowed up another
2. my mailbox grew with 40 or something messages in a few days
so i had to delete them to keep things in order but of course, the
information in the mails is now lost.
3. you were actually doing a discussion, so use a discussion forum !

kind regards,

peter aka kaltan

ps : it also solves the problem of the people who didn't have acces to
their mailbox.

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---- Marc Haisenko <Ax...@cu...> wrote:
> Hi folks !
> 	I'm happy to say that the 2nd inofficial Developer Meating,
> which took
> place in Munich this time on (actually) Saturday, 18/3 and Sunday,
> 19/3.
> People who took part this time:
> Xandi
> Jan
> Manfred
> and me, of course :-)
> 
> First of all, we will go 3D soon :-) I cannot say that we reach this
> point in
> two weeks or so, as I did so some 2 months ago ;-)
> 
> Manfred gave us some very interesting information and tought us about
> 'the real
> life' out there :-) Big thanks for lots of technical discussions :-)
> 
> 
> Now for the development:
> 
> We decided to use Manfred's database instead of writing our own databse
> (aka
> SymbolTable). It can be found on http://www.morgner.com/odb/ 
> Some people will now say "hey, you said not to use third-party elements".
> Well,
> yes and no. To make it short: Manfred's database fits our needs very
> well, read
> his page to get convinced :-) BTW: Having an Internet Explorer helps
> :-(((
> <kick manfred>
> 
> The next thing we will use is RPC instead of writing a protocol. Xandi
> and I
> have to learn what RPC is and how it is used, but  I think we even
> can take
> this hurdle ;-) If anyone could give me some docs I would be very thankful
> :-)
> 
> We now agreed to a philosophical model about 3Dsia:
> All beings are equal !
> Nice, eh ? Now this is not true, as some have more right, others not
> ;-) but
> the server will make no difference between an application representing
> a
> complete matrix, an application that acts like avatars (e.g. it is
> able to move
> freely in the Internet with an representation like an avatar) and real
> humans.
> All these entities have an inner and/or outer hull. This makes it possible
> for
> an application "Fly" to start in a matrix (all matrices will be provided
> by
> apps, the server only manages data), fly into another matrix, meet
> a human
> avatar, fly into his head, which contains a matrix that looks like
> the inside
> of a bus, and leave the avatar's head, if the avatar is located in
> any other
> matrix that allows the fly to enter :-) Wow, THIS is fantastic, and
> believe me,
> this sentence is one of the most exciting results that came out after
> having
> discussed summa sumarum about 15 hours ;-)
> 
> Another thing is that I'm working the code over. Don't panic ! I just
> remove C
> code and fill the gaps with C++ (currently the source is C with Classes).
> If
> I have to change/add APIs, I will anounce them a day before I actually
> commit
> them to CVS :-)
> 
> This leads me to a very important thing: WE DO NEED PROGRAMMERS ! If
> you know
> one, kick his butt and tell him to help us, and if you are reading
> this now and
> you are able to write C++ then feel kicked right now and send Xandi
> or me a
> message containing the message "Yes, I wanna help, lemme code !" :-)
> We will
> provide you all the infos you need. Just remember: you will probably
> change the
> world ! ;-)
> 
> Apropos infos: Xandi, would be so kind and update the homepage ? Like,
> adding
> the Vienna-Meating and the Munich-Meating to the news and marking them
> as
> milestones in human history ? :-)
> 
> Phew,  now this is a big mail. And it's much to small to reflect all
> results/ideas which grewed last weekend...
> 
> Ah, one last thing: Xandi, Jan and Bernhard want to use 3dsia for school,
> as
> they have to present a VERY simple "Online Shop". Because of this,
> 3dsia will
> be split: a public and non-public branch. The non-public will just
> hack the
> source to create an 'online shop' <rotfl> and  then flushed down the
> toillet
> ;-) This means: everything remains as it is ! But Xandi will get some
> experience with this hack, so both versions will influence each other
> (you
> won't notice it, though). They have to present their 'online shop'
> in two
> month, so we will definitly get a faster development in the
> main-(public)-branch :-)=)
> 
> <insider = on> Okay, so let's get it on ! <bing> <bing> <bing> ;-)
> C'ya,
> 	Marc
> 
> --
> Marc Haisenko
> alias StonedBones
> alias Axl
> 
> E-Mail: Sto...@3d...
> or      Ax...@cu...
> 
> http://www.3dsia.cx
> 
> 
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