Re: [OpenVerse] Avatar ratings

[Bart Dorsey <echo@bucket.pp.ualr.edu>]

I know this would be a major change.. but why doesn't the client keep up
with the animation?

for example, you send the avatar file over to the client and the client
reads it to tell what to animate and how much.

This stays constant until the person changes the avatar.


Ed Lange wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:01:19 +1300, DJ Eaton
> <utopian@utopia.freehosting.net> wrote:
> 
> > Animation should not be rated but an "Accept Animated Avatars" option
> > should exist in the Setup. This should also stop you from getting the
> > network traffic generated by this.
> 
> Neither the server nor your client knows if other user's avatars are
> animated or not.  The client that's generating the animation continuously
> sends AVATAR commands to the server, each time the animated avatar should
> change.  Perhaps it would be more useful to have the option "Ignore Avatar
> changes made within X seconds" with a slidy bar from 0.0 to, say, 20.0, in
> increments of 0.1 seconds.
> 
> Even quickly animating avatars use a trivial amount of the bandwidth of a
> 28.8 modem, once all the individual image files are downloaded.
> 
> As for size, some people don't like to see very large avatars, even if
> they're within the server's defined limits.
> 
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