Text on a Prim Update: Now Clickable Image Maps!
Nov 21st, 2006 by jeffmcneill
Major progress on the Text-on-a-Prim possibilities. A combination of Junie and Intolerable and Kisa are producing some great new innovations in the quest to get something like web browser functionality in-world.
Why web browser functionality? Because that stuff works for us, and we want to have it within our virtual worlds too. True, there are arguments that we are just reproducing the 2d web in the 3d world, but the 2d web has some good stuff, and the things that 3d can do better, we will do better.
Anyway, here is the kind of functionality that is likely on the shopping list: Text rendering, images, streaming media, audio, clicking on any given part of an interface, typing into an interface, all with the web 2.0 insta-response we are getting used to.
Kisa rediscovered SMIL and can get text inworld through the quicktime player. That’s awesome! Junie conceptualized and then reinvented clickable imagemaps using two prims. Holy smokes! Junie has a working script in there workshop in Namhae.
Residents considering the imagemap demo in Namhae.
