User:Lum Pfohl/LSL Goodies/HI-WA Occupancy Counter System

Help Island/Welcome Area Occupancy Counter System - Overview

Background

This is a system of scripts, sensors and servers designed to sense, collect, report and disseminate information on the occupancy levels of Orientation Islands, Help Islands, Welcome Areas and Infohubs. What it boils down to is a single prim HUD attachment on a Second Life Mentor's display.

When a Mentor clicks the HUD and requests an update from the server to display, there are a lot of things that happen in the background. Hopefully this documentation will illustrate what goes on behind the scenes, and how big this system actually is.

Discussion

I need to discuss each part in sections.

Links to Code

Scripters might be interested in the listing to my code. Yes, you can balk at it and criticize it and say that you can come up with something better. Please do; it is not easy to come up with something from nothing and do it right the very first time. The fact is, that I have picked a convention and an architecture and stuck with it as I built the system. Every element of within the system conforms to the Requirements Documentation - which spells out what the system must do.