sumerian scene loader

THIS SCRIPT IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES NO GUARENTEES THAT THE SCRIPT WORKS, LET ALONE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK AS SUMERIAN EVOLVES

Build and deploy

This is a rollup package meant to support writing Sumerian script code outside of the Sumerian editor

• The rollup build is configured to add the module exports to the window object so they can be used from Sumerian script components
• The rollup build also has a S3 uploader. Just set the normal AWS credentials environment variables, as well as S3_BUCKET and S3_PREFIX, and the built bundles will be uploaded to S3. You can load these scripts in Sumerian by placing their URLs in the script component references section
• This is primiarly meant as a development tool. It is recommended to place a cloudfront deployment infront of the bucket to ensure the best performance and edge caching for the built javascript

Dynamic Scene Loader

This library contains some simple classes to hook up dynamic loading into Sumerian. By using this script in the top-level scene opened by your customers, you may load and manipulate entities from other scenes you own dynamically at runtime.

The general flow is as follows

• Create your top-level scene. This is the scene users will be linked to or will otherwise see first.
• Setup your Cognito pool as normal in Sumerian in the top-level scene. Ensure it has permissions to 'sumerian:ViewRelease' for any projects you will be dynamically loading.
• Create one or more scenes with assets you'd like to load dynamically. Ensure the entities appear in the scene graph of these scenes and not just in the asset bin
• For every dynamically loaded scene, in the Publish menu, select 'Host Privately' and click Publish. Copy the JSON blob that is created, we will use it later
• In the top-level scene, create a SceneLoader in a setup() script like the following:

SystemBus.addListener(AwsSystem.SDK_READY, ()=>{
    ctx.worldData.loader = new window.sumerian_helpers.SceneLoader("us-west-2", sumerian, ctx.world, AWS.config.credentials);
}, true);

Now, anywhere in your code you may download the data for a scene like so:

// The following json blob is from the Sumerian editor when publishing above
const config = {
    url: URL,
    sceneId: sceneId
}
// This first line will download all the data in the given scene
ctx.worldData.loader.loadRelease(config).then(async (loader) => {
    //This loader object can load any object in the loaded scene
    // For example, you may load a material, and add the material dynamically to an existing entity
    // In this case, we are loading an entire entity
    // This loader is the DynamicLoader type from the Scripting API
    const entity = await loader.load("bf89149335b044e4b3cef634d0ba9e5f.entity");
    // When loading an entity, be sure to call addToWorld so it is added to the world and started
    entity.addToWorld();
});

• In the cleanup() function of the script that created the SceneLoader, you must run the following code

ctx.worldData.loader.cleanup()

Otherwise, any entities loaded will not be removed upon pressing stop in the editor