I'm not sure one way or the other on the idea, but a solution to problem 3 is relatively easy: Just bake the layers together before sending down to the client. That way the rendering system wouldn't have to change and all clients would see it as-is. Only the owner would need know about the layers, and then only when editing.
Ricky Cron Stardust On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert Martin <robertl...@gmail.com> wrote: > With all this talk over changing how clothes work i was thinking > Why don't we code for Multi-layer images? Leave the clothing layers as > numbered but include support for having multiple layers in a texture. > > an example of how it could work (and yes it would be very complicated > so we may need to target 2.4 or so) > allow for a total of 6 layers numbered 0-5 and expose to the inworld > editor numbering from 1 (layer 0 would be a special use layer) > as an example a shirt > layer 5 a slogan or other image > layer 4 a somewhat cleaner image > layer 3 long sleeves > layer 2 short sleeves > layer 1 the base shirt > layer 0 uploaders copyright data and labels for the upper layers (with > age ratings) > > in the in-world editor allow for folks to turn off any of layers 5 4 > or 3 (assumes that the avatar is set for adult access) > > advatanges > > 1 this would allow for a huge number of new products > 2 the control layer could be used to add in a needed flag for "Full > perms does/does not mean export to other grids" > 3 this would enable folks a to have a simple way to "watermark" textures > > > questions/problems > > 1 this would require both changes to the server and the client > 2 how many layers should we have?? > 3 fall back to "legacy" clients > 4 encoding for the control layer (or is this even a sane approach??) > > -- > Robert L Martin > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
