So after muddling around with the opensim code on my trusty server here at the lab I decided it was time to hook the sucker up to the osgrid and see what happened. Slightly bumpy road but read on if you care.
The bumps in road were caused mostly by my forgetting I am dealing with windows heads here and pushing out of my head years ago how that wicked tech called the ini file worked. Mostly I had stuff in the wrong sections. Why the hell are there sections? Would a comment not suffice? I dont know how that thinking survives frankly, but nonetheless, this is not a rant about the M$ view, but rather accolades for the opensim work.
I stuck a single sim on the grid, called Xanth at 10001,10002. Delighful! It works pretty well. TP’s are kinda flaky and I have yet to have someone drop by, but so far it looks good, seems stable, and best of all no one has complained. The only trouble is the stupid jpeg code for the map generating does not want to work. I rebuilt the .so and all. I don’t know.
Anyway, here’s a shot. You can see the next sim off in the distance and that wee gash of black pixels on the dock is me in all my noobish glory.
Don’t you love working with undocumented code? LLSD in this case. It’s giving me flashbacks and not the good kind. Linden Lysergic acid Diethylamide.
I dinged together a patch for the viewer (VWR-7513) to allow loading of grids from an xml file. I have 5 viewers sitting on my HD sucking up 200MB a pop, plus the code and builds for 2. Kinda silly. So the viewer code had the internal grids hard coded into a static array and accessed with enums!! Unreal. Anyway now I can pick my local grid, osgrid and whatnot from the login panel and nuked 4 viewers from the HD. 
I hope they take the patch dammit!
Ewan Mureaux made a vid of how to skin Dazzle and stuck it on YouTube. He uses my skin as an example which you can find here Thanks Ewan
This one didn’t compile out of the box. Notes follow…
Had to comment out the llassert to get it to run. No doubt causing a nice leak
linden/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp line 631 +//llassert(…
On a happier note it seems easy enough to rip the voice code out of the client completely so perhaps it won’t be too bad to trim the rest of the cruft.
I also managed to get lua embedded and run a script that popped an alert. I looked into embedding ruby but it seems its not threadable at all so thats out. Python may work, I can’t remember. Anyway, the plan is to make a lib of the network pump and have callbacks in the scripting lang and build a scripted non-visual client using the LL code. This should be way easier to maintain then doing it the other way around.