Fuck Yeah RealXtend

I recently had a chance to check out the RealXtend project, and it actually looks pretty cool. Mesh support, shadows, and a better avatar attachment system.

I'm not 100% impressed, though, mostly because a few features seem half-finished and half-baked - but then again OpenSim was that way too a while ago. Example: You can't edit your avatar from inside RealXtend, you have to launch a separate program, customize your avatar, and then enter your login information in the avatar editor program to change your avatar appearance... LAME! Still it's a good start, and it has Python support with a DOM-esque system where the world is represented as python classes instead of that lame PHP-style mess of llFunctions everywhere.

They haven't released a new version lately; however. I suspect their custom Opensim might be getting a little old as we add new functionality fairly often.