Monthly Archives: October 2013

Supercar Team Black Rock Laboratory

9,000… 11,000… 15,000… Interlock on… Fire Both… Roof Doors Open… Some detailing has been done on the Black Rock Lab 3D model in OpenSim using images from the TV show at DVD resolution… The storage/fuel tank and pipework gantry to … Continue reading

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Okay Venus – Right Lets Go

Experiment with OpenSim Venus avatar and persistent NPC from Gerry Anderson’s Fireball XL5 on Space City region of OSGrid. Visit Venus in Space City on OSGrid at hop://login.osgrid.org:80/Space%20City/222/242/22/ There are some nice colourisations of still frames from the Fireball XL5 … Continue reading

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Blue Mars 2150 and OpenSim 2013

Back in 2008 Avatar Reality announced a virtual world under development on the CryEngine2 platform – Blue Mars 2150 – and showed a concept movie. The promotional movie promised… “Everything you see here is created in high definition in real … Continue reading

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Universal Campus – Converting from Megaregions

The open source “Universal Campus” for OpenSim is released as four OpenSim Archive (OAR) files which are designed to go onto a 2 X 2 “megaregion” setup. It has been designed and provided by University of California, Irvine and Oni … Continue reading

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Robert the Robot X N

On the Space City region in the OpenSim-based OSGrid near to Venus’s Beach House are some experiments with “Robert the Robot” NPCs, both persistent across server restarts and temporary variants. In addition, a custom pose for the jetmobile rider has … Continue reading

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Venus’s Beach House near Space City in OpenSim

Okay Venus… Okay Steve… Right, let’s go! In a corner of Space City sits Venus’s Beach House… constructed using simple prims and textures in OpenSim… Visit Venus at her Beach House in Space City on OSGrid at hop://login.osgrid.org:80/Space%20City/222/242/22/

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Marineville in OpenSim

Stand by for action! Marineville… I am calling battle stations… anything can happen in the next half hour… The Marineville region in the OpenSimulator-based OSGrid is now complete with the addition of the Marineville Control Tower. The Tower uses Mateen … Continue reading

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Robert the Robot Avatar on OpenSim

Message understood… on our way ‘ome… Robert the Robot, co-pilot of Fireball XL5, a transparent robot invented by Professor Matic and Earth’s most advanced mechanical man (voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson using an artificial larynx and the only main … Continue reading

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Space City in OpenSim

A Space City region has been prepared in OSGrid and has on it mesh models of Fireball XL5 and the Space City base, along with some other space related 3D models, all uploaded via the Collada mesh import facilities now … Continue reading

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Black Rock Laboratory in OpenSim

The Black Rock region in OSGrid now has the mesh models of Supercar and the Black Rock Laboratory interior and exterior, along with some miscellaneous other 3D objects all uploaded as tests of the Collada mesh import facilities in OpenSim … Continue reading

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Virtual University of Edinburgh Regions in OpenSim

Following the upgrade of the Virtual University of Edinburgh OpenSim grid (Openvue) servers in May 2013, described in this post, some tidying up and improvement to the 3D models and visuals of the regions has taken place, and glitches that … Continue reading

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Phaze Demesnes Resources in OpenSim

Ferd Frederix via his Phaze Demesnes web site has provided many fine open source resources, scripts, objects and avatars in Second Life, and has recently been providing the content also in OpenSim. His Ruhengeri savannah style area on the region … Continue reading

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