[Verse-dev] Virtual workspace using Verse

[Kiran]

Thanks Emil for inputs.

Regards
Kiran


On 12/18/07, Emil Brink <emil at obsession.se> wrote:
>
> On 12/18/07, Kiran <krec.kiran at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >              I plan to develop a minimal virtual workspace using verse,
> > which assists in colloboration,
>
> Cool! Please beware though, this is quite a far-reaching goal. It's
> more than we did during the Uni-Verse research project, but on the
> other hand we never had that application as a goal so the comparison
> is not very fair. :)
>
> >               This may involve a whiteboard,a room with four walls and
> > sharing  of documents like pdf,words.
>
> Cool. The basic room geometry would need to be modelled and stored on
> a server. A practical way to do this is of course to model it and save
> the model as a VML file. You can then start a dedicated server to host
> the environment, and upload the model to it.
>
> The whiteboard is easily implemented by texturing a wall with a bitmap
> (of sufficient resolution) and then using GIMP to open that bitmap.
> This can be done by multiple clients in parallel, and the bitmap will
> be shared. There is no other dedicated bitmap editing tool that is
> Verse-aware, as far as I know (but I have little idea about the exact
> status of Blender, currently).
>
> Sharing of files is less straight-forward, there is no 100% ready
> solution there. You might be able to cook something up by patching a
> FTP server so it creates Verse representations of files uploaded in a
> dedicated area, or something. Now that I think of it, that sounds
> pretty nice and also like something we should have done (in my
> opinion) during the project.
>
> >              I am stuck on how to go about and developing the same using
> Verse.
>
> Completely understandable, Verse is complex and abstract.
>
> >              Do I have to write a OpenGL application which does the
> graphical
> > building blocks and then enable it by calling Verse API or do i have to
> se writing
> > VML to define geometrical objects needed for this?
>
> Probably a bit of both, as outlined above. Rendering should be left to
> Quel Solaar though, you don't want to write a custom renderer or you
> will be busy a very long time. :)
>
> > Also do you have a complete working example of some demo application
> from
> > which we can learn.
>
> Nathan kindly provided a link to the Subversion repository, I hope you
> can learn from there.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Emil
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