About The Project

This project is part of research made in the Technion, the Israel institute of technology, Electrical Engineering faculty, Computer Graphics and Multimedia  Lab.

The Project Goal is to research Second Life Open Source code, published by Linden Lab company, at the following topics:

1. Successfully compile the game source code.

2. Finding the avatar definition and changing the
    avatar in the viewer.

3. Finding the important function in the game code that
    responsible to the objects in the game and
    understanding how they works.

 

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The project main result

- Compilation instruction are located at the source code
  documentation web hosted by Wikipedia.
  We have successfully compiled the game only on 
  visual studio 2005, on visual studio 2008 the
  compilation failed.

- The avatar look is defined by two XML files:
  avatar_skeletonl.xml, avatar_lad.xml.
  The file located in:
   %source_folder%/linden/indra/newview/character

- The object color in the viewer is defined by the
   function setTEColor which located in the file
   llprimitive.cpp. This function is very useful for
   controlling object colors.

- The main function that handles object is 
   processObjectUpdate.
   This function gets an object ID, find or create this
   object  and modifying it.
   This function is the key function for changing objects
   in the game during there creation.

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About as

Our names are Batel Bibas and Eliran Cohen. We are a 4th year students for Computer Engineering degree.

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Thanks

We would like to thank Michael Kolomenkin, the Supervisor of the project and to Hovav Gazit the laboratory engineer, for giving us support and helping us during the project.

links:

Project book        Project presentation        Project code        second life at Wikipedia