11Aug/080
Tribal One: Darren Arrives
So, time for clip two in the Tribal One concepts series;
This video clip shows how a user arrives on a public island (islands created on demand, as users crowd them) - bringing with him his "garden" which is a 'viewport' (a web-based parcel-on demand which exists only as long as the user is online) and how the 'viewport' content is restored and the terrain smoothed out to accomodate it.
Points of interest:
- The white line demarks the "garden" - anyhing placed within it is private and will move with the garden as it's taken down and re-created on next login. Anything placed outside will be stored together with the island, as that too is taken down and re-created.
- The garden terrain is smoothed with the surrounding terrain.
- The garden is a 3D "viewport", defined by a cube and a web url pointing to either an (read-only) xml document, or to a REST service that manages updates within that cube. In this case, we implemented a generic "Viewport Content Storage" that would serve and manage content nodes over the web.