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Feb 4, 2004, 1:27pm

I've asked for these before. There are a lot of things that would
'just work' on either of these models. 'create picture' would be
one of the most useful.

You could also consider any 'create sound' attached to the ground
object to be the worlds 'ambient' sound. The ground model (and
skybox_ are always drawn completely no matter how far away
you are, so it's a natural extension to attach a 'global' sound to
it.

For these two models, the 'create' trigger could just be assumed
since neither of these interact with the 'activate' trigger.

It would also be cool to assign fixed meta-names to these models
such as "_ground" and "_skybox" so that they can be used as
the target of other commands .. i.e. :

"activate picture some_url target=_ground"

This would allow you to build a ground model with built in
signage, and have clickable objects that can change the picture
map on the fly.

"activate sound some_url target=_ground"

Would allow the clicker to change the global sound in the world.
Kind of like a jukebox, but with no range limitation.

A sound attached to the ground object should not come from
any particular location either, so AW would not have to try to
remix the left/right volume on the fly, and this would save CPU
cycles and cure the annoying audio distortion that occurs
sometimes when your avatar is ambigously close to an audio
source.

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