Recent viewers of the Tram Status Page will have noticed that it has grown a map, indicating where the tram is, rather than than there simply being a SLurl link.
I decided to investigate the Second Life mapping API and, you know, it’s not actually that hard at all. One only needs to know some fairly basic Javascript and one is away. All sorts of possibilities come to mind… perhaps the tram map could include other landmarks, say, or indeed scan so that one might see people around the tram at that time.
Hmm. Really, it is again infuriating that there are not enough hours in the day. There are the camera things to be working on, and changes to the tram itself to make the spelling more correct and it more easily sat upon, and derringers to release, and third birthday monorails to discuss, and… perhaps some reader would be kind enough to offer me some sort of patronage as an official court inventrix? No? Ah.
Edit: Well, at least you will now see that the spelling is correct on the tram, and that sitting on it should be a much easier task. Also, if you are privileged enough to be present when a new tram is rezzed, you will see it fade into existence as it is drawn out of the world of the Asset Server into Second Life. Surely, there are manifold universes within this simple one.
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June 19, 2006 at 12:35 am
Erbo Evans
Madam, had I a court that needed an official inventrix, your name would head the list of candidates for the position. As it is, all I can do is drop a few coins of the realm into your tip jar from time to time. Even that is scant compensation for the insights your work has already given me…but I hope that this small offering will be taken in the spirit in which it is given.
June 19, 2006 at 3:42 pm
ordinal.malaprop
Oh sir, every Linden Farthing is most gratefully appreciated!