Downloads and Support

Post edited 9:53 pm – May 30, 2009 by Shack Dougall

This thread is for discussing the poll about ModRex:

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If you don't know what ModRex is, here is the description from the ModRex Page:

ModRex is a joint effort between RealXtend and OpenSim developers to make it possible to join the RealXtend viewer to the OpenSim codebase. The RealXtend viewer employs the open source OGRE game engine and differs from the Linden Lab viewer (LLviewer) in several ways. The most distinct difference is in the new rendering potential offered by OGRE. When using RealXtend as a viewer for OpenSim, one obtains real-time shadows, improved lighting simulation, and more importantly, the OGRE mesh. The mesh is hierarchical (multiple meshes and sub-meshes) and can include a skeleton for defining avatar motion and dynamics.

ModRex is important to the OpenSim community mainly because, like the base opensim code base itself, the RealXtend viewer is open source and breaks away from some of the key contraints imposed by the LLviewer, such as inability to create meshes, shadows, realistic avatars, and advanced lighting effects. ModRex while not part of the viewer, is the glue that connects the viewer to the opensim trunk code.

So far, I haven't looked at ModRex.  I've been waiting for it to reach a more mature level, but I'm thinking that it might be about time to take a look at it.

Please share any experiences that you've had with it and let me know if and when supporting it is important to you.

I have yet to hear a good story about IP protection from OpenSIM and other related projects to seriously consider making any effort specifically targeted at those environments/platforms/etc.  Additionally, even now OpenSim is barely stable enough and compatible enough to provide an offline environment for verifying my PrimComposer builds, but I'd never consider creating content for an OpenSim-based grid at this point.

ModRex sounds very cool, and it sounds like there could be some pretty powerful synergy between those projects, but it's far too early for me to know whether I'll use it.  When it becomes stable and viable, I'll strongly consider it.

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