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Interactive QuickTime Movies in SL?

Meengla Yip
Registered User
Join date: 1 Feb 2007
Posts: 8
02-02-2007 11:37
Hi,
I need to program some interactive Quicktime (and/or interactive Flash .swf) to some training in SL. So far I am not having much luck: Movies (.MOV) created with Adobe GoLive CS2 simply fail to show the 'Sprites' which make interactivity possible (the buttons/sprites just don't show up). Can someone point to a basic workflow/software to achieve this? May be point toward a 'SLURL' to point to an 'in-world' site?
Thank you.
Meengla
DoteDote Edison
Thinks Too Much
Join date: 6 Jun 2004
Posts: 790
02-02-2007 17:51
You'll be best-off trying the scripting forums here. But basically, SL media is a one-way street. So, interactive QT movies are not directly possible yet. You need a mechanism to translate viewer interactions from within the SL environment, to your media. This might involve simple touch scripts in prim "sprites" that send clicks to your off-world server via llHTTPRequest() functions. Your server-side script would receive the 'click' and modify te media same as if someone had clicked the sprite.

That's the best way I can think to do what you wish to do. I'm not really sure if it's a solution that will work, but at least a start.
Meengla Yip
Registered User
Join date: 1 Feb 2007
Posts: 8
02-05-2007 08:35
Hi, Thank you very much. I will also check out the Scripting forum....