Dynamic web texture

Hi all,

I already searched a lot about this but I can't find an answer to my 'quest'..

Is it possible (and if yes) how can I put a web picture (generated by PHP, so it's dynamic) on an object in Second Life.

I have seen functions like HTTP Texture & Webtexture, some special tricks with Quicktime, but I still don't have anything that works .

Could you please help me on this one ?

Thanks,
Pj

No, you can't, except via a trick where you wrap it in a flash applet inside a quicktime container using the media stream... and that's a good thing. If you could just shove a URL in a prim and get someone to do an HTTP fetch griefers would be using this for weapons that smurfed people offline quicker than you can say "Bobs your Uncle".

I heard the quicktime solution has a big lag in refreshing time. Is that correct ?

Other question then, the only solution for having dynamic content in an object is with scripts like XyzzyText or what ? Because I've seen google map screens in Second Life which were build out of images so...

Thanks

You can get sim maps, profile pics, and some other SL images to show on a prim because they're already stored in LL's servers. You just need to grab them with the right API. You can get the UUID of a sim map, for example, by using llHTTPRequest (http://www.subnova.com/secondlife/api/map.php?sim=Your Sim Name,[],"", obviously putting your own sim's name where I typed Your Sim Name. Once you have the UUID, you can display the map on a prim the same way you can display any other texture.

I'm aware of that, but I was talking about Google Maps, it should be quite amazing if all the google maps database is stored into Second Life... no ?

So how are they doing the trick ?

If it's using a flash applet that's talking to a server (including a prim using the HTTP server support in SL) it should be instantaneous.

Can you tell me where I can find a kind of tutorial for this ? Or some more explications ?

Because I always see people mentioning it, but never explaining .

Thanks for all the help until now!
Pj

It's a hack, and a lot of people won't be able to see it anyway. Don't bother.

So what should I do?
The only way to show something dynamic is text I suppose ? So the best thing to use is XyzzyText. Or is it better to buy a screen ?

This will be my last question .
Thanks

I don't know what you mean by "buying a screen", because there isn't anything I know of other than XYtext that's reliable.