[Uni-verse] Review and demo

[Gert Svensson]

Dear Ludde,

thanks for your letter!

I totally agree that this is a most important part to pass the review.
All efforts have to be spent to produce a successful demo.

About the rendering issue:

 From the correspondence during the Easter is seems that OSGrenderer has 
implemented the transformation slightly wrong.
This should be easy to fix and should be done right away.
Is it correct that this renderer is not supporting colours and materials 
at the moment?
Also the avatar naming issue should be easy to fix. If user selectable 
name is hard start with a fixed one and send this version.

If this cannot be fixed an alternative has to be found. Eskil's renderer 
doesn't work so this is not an option at the moment. The simple renderer 
works well but is not impressing using pseudo colours.

The Necro package also contains a renderer and implements colour and 
materials.
Test before the day before the Easter was however negative for the 
building. Nothing showed up at all. This may however be possible to fix. 
Comments from Martin?

For the roof of the building, couldn’t that be approximated with an 
invisible flat roof?
I assume the reviewers wouldn't hear any difference?

I know there are other issues about the model as well but I don’t have 
first hand knowledge about the problems there so I postpone my comments 
on this issue.

Best Regards
Gert




Peter Lundén wrote:

> Dear partners,
>
> Im concerned about the achitecural demo in the review. The state of 
> the matter is that one week before the review we have not been able to 
> set up the demo system, not even parts of it, we have only run test of 
> some of the sub-systems.
>
> We do not have a working model that can run in a verse server. We do 
> not, after two years of work, have a visual renderer that can 
> correctly render a quite simple model not even without materials. This 
> is in my oppinion the two most serius problems right now and the 
> problems are VERY urgent to fix, how do we fix this? How do we get a 
> working model? How to we get a working renderer that can be used as a 
> navigator in the system?
>
> We do not even know if we can smoothly run an acoustic simulation in 
> the current model as we have never been able to try. The model has 
> some complication like curved surface that have never been tested.
>
> I think we are putting the whole project at risk if we can not do a 
> good demo involving major parts of the whole project at the review. 
> What we can end up in is that we can only show the acoustic simulation 
> system without any involvment of verse and in my oppinion that would 
> be a catastorphy.
>
> I have no other intensions of writing this then that I would like us 
> to do a good impression at the review.
>
> Best regards,
> --PLu
>
>
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