FMS based virtual world 1.0
This week I’ve been playing around with the shared object feature of the Flash Media Server. So far I’m really liking it! I was able to whip up a pretty basic prototype of a web-based virtual world without too much fuss – feel free to check it out.
Just me and MC Hammer hanging out in the metaverse
As of today the world can do the following:
- Avatar identification
- Synchronous text-based chat
- Click-to-move functionality within the world
- Appearance editor (change your own avatar’s look)
The appearance editor is still very rudimentary, and changes made to your avatar don’t yet ripple out to other users. I was having a real tough time figuring out how to send out complex AS3 objects using the Shared Object feature of the FMS. The documentation explicity states that sending any AS3 class via a Shared Object should work. What the documentation fails to tell you is that you need to prepare your classes in a very particular way in order for them to retain their integrity after being serialized by the FMS encoder.
I should have a fix in place for this real soon – I’m uber excited about being able to share non-trivial AS3 objects in real time!
Tags: FMS, synchronous, virtual world