I just tried using the SL 1.x client with OS grid for the first time this weekend. Overall the experience was plain awful, on a 10 megabit internet connection and GTX 285 1024meg
Oddly, when giving the SL client the OSgrid URL from the command line, the client login page tells me that the Second Life grid is up, and the number of concurrent users in SL, etc. Why is the client not telling me the status of the OSgrid instead? On first login, the sim textures took forever to load. Like, after 5 minutes I'm still standing in a sea of gray boxes. Simple physics only with the ground. All objects are phantom. I'd think the OSGrid default login would want to showcase the collision-resolving capabilities of the more advanced open physics engines, but oh well. When I search for sandboxes to try building stuff... odd, the search window shows me stuff from Second Life, not the OSGrid. Most teleports fail because it appears I'm getting links to SL sims that don't accept connections from OSGrid. Yep, I can find the Cordova Sandbox from the search page within OSGrid. (I don't think search should list sims that don't accept connections.) Searching for "osgrid" in the search window oddly turns up nothing. How am I to find sandbox sims in OSGrid? "Oh, just open the map and pick that way" someone tells me. Yeah that works well. the map shows about a 10x10 grid of sims nearby, but the rest of the map doesn't want to load. Timeout. I did actually manage to find another OSgrid sim to connect to, but on join it turned out to have a ping of 6000. (It would be useful for the search page to show a graph of the sim load for the last five minutes so we know if a sim is lagged out BEFORE we try teleporting.) And oh joy, I can't now "teleport home" to where I started. The OSgrid did something I've not seen happen on SL in a long time, where I seem to still be connected but all the traffic meters in the client debug (Ctrl-Shift-1) drop to 0 kbps. The inventory never loaded completely, even though as a new user it's empty. Relogin attempts attempting to login at the home location were just as slow and unresponsive. Yep, if you don't like the new SL client developer TOS, there is sure a great future to look forward to with the open source grid project. :-P _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
