Region UUID

Howdy Folks,

Does anyone know of any way to gain a Region's global position or Name, from it's UUID? Is it even possible?

What do you mean by "its UUID"? Where did you get a UUID that represents the region from?

Region UUID? Is there such a thing? If so please tell me how you obtained it.

Maybe you meant llGetRegionCorner() or DATA_SIM_POS?

Are you sure you're looking for scripting advice (for in-world scripting, aka lsl) and not open source advice for the client source code?

In the source code, yes it is possible to get a name and global position from the RegionID. That'd be a question for the sldev mailing list, though.

To get the name you could do an http request;

http://world.secondlife.com/region/02b489c7-34aa-0043-8835-6dc0316bdc0f

Will return the page for the region Michelangelo


This thread would give you a clue how to do it with a script:

/54/bf/225460/1.html

it's amazing what you can get a uuid for through that portal =) now if I could just figure out a better way to access it, via search terms, so that it returns the xml bucket each time instead of the page in sub directories...

So how exactly do you get a region UUID?

catch 22, AFAIK, without diving into the viewer code, the only place I know to get it is http://world.secondlife.com/ but there are links to them from profiles, parcels, classifieds, etc....

I suppose it's possible there's a function that returns them, but I don't know it... but then I used to think group keys weren't exposed, but now I know at least 2 functions that will expose them in certain circumstances... and now I know how to attach names to them =)

other things with keys that I didn't know about... each parcel has a key, each classified ad has a key, events may have keys too,

If you're working with open-source (assumed since you're working with region UUID's) you can do RegionHandleRequest and get a RegionIDAndHandleReply

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/RegionHandleRequest
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/RegionUUIDAndHandleReply

(events don't have keys, they have something like a 9-digit random number. Can someone verify?)

A RegionHandleRequest assumes you already know the ID and want the handle. I don't know if there's a have-handle-want-id message/reply pair, but I think there's a more direct way to get region info once you have a handle.

If you know the global position there's a function to get the ID (or maybe it's the handle, or maybe there's both, don't remember).

If you know the region name, use MapNameRequest, and that returns a MapBlockReply.

Everything in SL is assigned a key although not all are usable ie. classified keys. The keys are simply a method in which LL stores its data.

It's rather strange that you would know how to obtain region keys and not use them.

Yes you can gain a region's global position and name from its UUID by doing an httprequest and parsing what you get.

ie.
http://world.secondlife.com/region/02b489c7-34aa-0043-8835-6dc0316bdc0f

Look up at post #5

I couldn't get into the events section the way I wanted, but my guess is the number you're seeing is possibly a bitmask, that contains among other things, a post ID number as seen through the community search portal?

I almost miss picking apart file formats to mod games... digging through this stuff is like a big puzzle... I love puzzles =)

We need to build up a sample set of about 100 entries and compare them. At the moment I can't find any relevant information stored in the number.