realXtend Naali on the Nokia N900

I ported our virtual worlds viewer Naali into the maemo platform as a home hobby project. Well then it became my job to make it work better in the N900/Maemo environment at work too. Everything here was done in only a few weeks. This could be woked on to be something a lot more with time and dedication.

It's at a demo stage now so I can show everyone what its like. Havent been packaged yet or anything like that. Maybe thats next if people like it :)

I'm really waiting for Ogre to make its GLES2 rendering system work so I could utilize that. The iPhone one is already working, but I need the X11 build to be on the same level before I can use it.

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Category:

Science & Technology

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• realXtend
• Naali
• evocativi
• Nokia
• N900
• Maemo
• Qt
• Ogre

[TiagoTiagoT]

Any news on this?

[jonnenau]

@TiagoTiagoT what kind of news? :) We are not doing this client full time. I did build 0.2.x Naali to the N900 but nothing newer than that. This gave me texture cache that dropped the world loading to about 25-30 secs so its leaps and bounds faster than what you see on this video. And there is new UI for N900. I also built Naali to run on a MeeGo device, maybe we will do more work there in the future as at least the device I had the pleasure working with was very much faster than the Nokia N900.

[kitsune0video]

possibilities to work on nokia 5800? lol

[jonnenau]

@kitsune0video not very likely, haha ;)

[jonnenau]

Because we have not packaged this in any way. We would need to package all the deps (poco, ogre, freeimage, zzip, xmlrpc-epi etc.). Lots of deps and havent had time. I have made a static build zip that you can run and get this running on you N900. I could release it some day in maemo.org or something.

[TiagoTiagoT]

btw, how does the cache system deals with prims being changed, things rezzing etc? Or the cache is just for the textures like on the regular client?

[jonnenau]

@TiagoTiagoT Caching is for textures, meshes, material scripts etc. Prim data is still gotten via udp world updates as usual. I have updated the N900 client now that this audi world loads completely in about 25 seconds. It's based on a newer naali codebase that has my improved texture cache. Should make a new video of it, its quite alot faster.

[khaneo]

dude i dont know any codes stuff or technical things but that looks really amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELL this even looks like GTA:SA (btw: its not possible to play SA in n900 right ?? right ?? please ??? )

anyway wayy to go dude

[TiagoTiagoT]

@jonnenau where can i get the N900 version?

[kitsune0video]

@jonnenau I was waiting that answer xD

BTW: its really impresive how move those 3D graphics realy fast!! nice phone ^^

[TiagoTiagoT]

btw, is it still compatible with LL's grid?

[TiagoTiagoT]

@jonnenau Why not on extras-dev for the moment?