Tag Archives: OpenSim

Ruth2 v4 Rigging

Posted on March 25, 2023 by bat

Sean Heavy has documented a process to add an armature/rig to the Ruth2v4 open source mesh avatar and to export components of the avatar for Second Life and OpenSim using the Onigiri Blender add-on. These notes are to provide some … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Onigiri)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by bat

This blog post describes a process to take Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars via Blender and the Onigiri add-on to use in Second Life and OpenSim. Onigiri is a type of Japanese rice ball (see Wikipedia). Prepare the Resources Obtain … Continue reading →

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Cuteulula Artis Roller Coasters

Posted on March 13, 2023 by bat

I have posted before about Cuteulala Artis’s roller coaster builds in OpenSim, her free to use (in OpenSim only) Optera coaster, and her CuteulalaPark region on OSGrid. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/CuteulalaPark/304/475/22 Via her MeWe posts, Cuteulala recently made available on OAR similar to … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.8

Posted on January 31, 2023 by bat

Up to Firestorm 6.6.8 if you see errors like “missing vcruntime.dll”, “missing msvcp.dll” or the application is not starting at all, then please download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio (link for 64-bit operating systems). This issue will … Continue reading →

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HG Safari – 3rd Rock Grid – HAL 9000

Posted on January 4, 2023 by bat

The Hypergrid Safari Group met on 4th January 2023 to visit the 3rd Rock Grid’s “HAL 9000” 2001: A Space Odyssey themed region and audio-visual experience by Alia Soulstar who created all of the visual aspects of this build and … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Community Conference 2022 – OSCC22

Posted on December 10, 2022 by bat

The OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC) is one of the longest running virtual conference series, having started in 2013 and run annually since. This is OSCC’s 10th year and the event celebrates 15 years of OpenSimulator as the first commit was … Continue reading →

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Diva Wifi for OpenSim 0.9.2.* and later

Posted on November 17, 2022 by bat

Diva Canto provides the popular “Diva Distribution (D2)” precompiled version of OpenSim which includes a number of addon modules. One of these is called “Wifi” and provides a web front-end interface to OpenSim running in “Standalone” or “Grid mode with … Continue reading →

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HG Safari – WesLorien – ElvenWood

Posted on October 19, 2022 by bat

The Hypergrid Safari Group met on 19th October 2022 to visit the grid.vibel.eu grid’s “WesLorien ElvenWood” themed region by Roland Francis. https://www.vibel.eu/regions/weslorien (Diary Blog Post of a Visit by Elbereth Elentari) hop://grid.vibel.eu:8002/WesLorien/71/172/31 HG Safari blog post on the visit by … Continue reading →

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HG Safari – Hobbiton

Posted on October 19, 2022 by bat

The Hypergrid Safari Group met on 19th October 2022 to visit Outworldz grid’s “Hobbiton” themed regions by Fred Beckhusen (avatar: Ferd Frederix) and David Denny (avatar: Darkness Papp). The grid can be accessed via http://www.outworldz.com:9000. hop://www.outworldz.com:9000/Hobbiton/487/357/23 https://www.outworldz.com/cgi/freesculpts.plx?q=OAR- HG Safari blog … Continue reading →

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Openvue Continent on DreamGrid

Posted on October 11, 2022 by bat

The Virtual University of Edinburgh “Openvue” grid on http://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002 has been operating since 2007 on the OpenSimulator platform as an open Hypergrid accessible resource looked after by Prof. Austin Tate (avatar: Ai Austin) in the School of Informatics at the … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Mantis Reporter Statistics

Posted on October 10, 2022 by bat

http://opensimulator.org/mantis/summary_page.php

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Converting Ready Player Me Avatars for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on October 3, 2022 by bat

This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player Me avatars through Blender with the (paid) Bento Buddy addin into Second Life and OpenSim to travel across the Hypergrid. Note that a current Bento Buddy … Continue reading →

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Beorn’s House on OpenSim

Posted on September 23, 2022 by bat

Beorn’s House is a 256mx256m region for DreamGrid (OpenSim) with surrounding mountainous landscape and is part of the “Hobbiton Collection“/Shirelands of Hobbit/Lord of the Rings themed regions built by David Denny (avatar: Darkness Papp), licenced for exclusive use on the … Continue reading →

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Crystal Frost – Unity Viewer for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on September 21, 2022 by bat

GitHub JennaScvl (Berry Bunny in Second Life, Kallisti#2038 on Discord) recently announced work on a Unity-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim using LibreMetaverse. This blog post provides resources related to the development of Crystal Frost which is still at … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.3

Posted on September 18, 2022 by bat

Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.8.68380 is an update to version 6.6.3. See this blog post. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the popular Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and OpenSimulator with modifications to provide VR capabilities for VR Head Mounted … Continue reading →

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Using Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Bento Budy)

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post is replaced by a later one here since developments have taken place in Ready Player Me and the Bento Buddy plugin for Blender. This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Openvue grid goes behind Firewall

Posted on August 1, 2022 by bat

The Virtual University of Edinburgh “Openvue” grid on http://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002 has been operating since 2007 on the OpenSimulator platform as an open Hypergrid accessible resource looked after by Prof. Austin Tate (avatar: Ai Austin) in the School of Informatics at the … Continue reading →

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Ruth2 v4 – Rigging in Blender

Posted on May 16, 2022 by bat

This is an updated blog post explaining how to take the Ruth2 v4 avatar mesh with included armature and export it in a form suitable for use in Second Life and OpenSim. The post is still under development to debug … Continue reading →

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Shirelands in OpenSim

Posted on April 24, 2022 by bat

David Denny has an OpenSim grid “Shirelands” with Lord of the Rings themed regions. He was the original creator of the OpenSim Archive Files (OARs) used by Fred Beckhusen for the Outworldz DreamGrid versions of these regions. See this blog … Continue reading →

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HG Safari – Silent Refueling

Posted on March 16, 2022 by bat

The Hypergrid Safari Group met on 16th March 2022 to visit Outworldz grid’s “Silent Refueling” grid by Fred Beckhusen (avatar: Ferd Frederix) with building support from “Joe Builder”. The grid can be accessed via http://www.outworldz.com:9000. “Silent Refueling” is a tribute … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Twitter Community

Posted on March 3, 2022 by bat

A Twitter Community for “OpenSimulator” has been set up. Such communities are a new group feature on Twitter. Currently only members can send a tweet to the community to reduce spam. Please keep content directly relevant to OpenSimulator community. https://twitter.com/i/communities/1499373889234903042 … Continue reading →

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History of SecondLife and OpenSim VR Viewers

Posted on February 20, 2022 by bat

These notes were originally posted on the Discord Firestorm VR Mod channel to explain the history behind the various 3D and VR Viewers for Second Life and OpenSim. They are collected together here for convenience. Pre-VR HMD 3D Approaches The … Continue reading →

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OMI Group Space on OpenSim

Posted on February 17, 2022 by bat

https://omigroup.org – Bridging virtual worlds by designing and promoting shared protocols. This blog post is to provide details of one of several virtual world and metaverse platform meeting spaces for the OMI Group. This one is the “OMI” region on … Continue reading →

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Hypergrid Safari – Travel Outfit and Travel Kit

Posted on February 2, 2022 by bat

HG Safari Visit on 2nd February 2022 at 12 noon SLT (20:00 hrs UT) Topic: Travelling in the Metaverse – Defining Your Travel Outfit and Suitcase Host: Ai Austin Date and Time: 2-Feb-2022, 12 noon SLT (20:00 hrs UT) Gathering … Continue reading →

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360° Snapshots in OpenSim

Posted on February 1, 2022 by bat

We have had the capability to create 360° Snapshots in Second Life since 2016 and the full release of the capability in the default viewer from 2021. Now Firestorm 6.5.3 is incorporating the same capability, allowing 360° Snapshots in both … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Community Conference 2021 – OSCC21

Posted on December 10, 2021 by bat

https://conference.opensimulator.org/ The OpenSimulator Community Conference is one of the longest running virtual conference series, having started in 2013 and run annually since. The OpenSimulator community and Avacon Inc. come together to run the event on the OpenSimulator Community Conference (OpenSimCC … Continue reading →

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Re-Vue

Posted on August 24, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to support a short project to have University of Edinburgh Information Services (IS) folks get started with (or return to) Second Life as part of the handover of some of the work with the Virtual University … Continue reading →

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Clever Zebra – OpenSim Assets

Posted on August 13, 2021 by bat

An updated version of the OpenVCE OAR file has been provided at 27-Feb-2022 in http://openvce.net/downloads/2022/ The OpenVCE project (http://openvce.net) contracted with Clever Zebra to produce the OpenVCE collaboration region virtual world assets for Second Life and OpenSim. Those assets are … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.4.21

Posted on July 31, 2021 by bat

Firestorm 6.4.21 + P373R VR Mod: This build includes P373R’s VR Mod 6.3.3 changes merged into Firestorm 6.4.21.64531 release branch. No change to the VR Mod code is needed. It is created using “GitHub Actions” (GHA) thanks to @humbletim. See … Continue reading →

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Open Educational Resources – Vue and OpenVCE

Posted on July 19, 2021 by bat

This is a blog post to support resources from the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) and Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (OpenVCE) activities to make them available on http://open.ed.ac.uk. Contact – Stephanie Farley (Charlie). Downloads available are in http://vue.ed.ac.uk/resources/open.ed/ See https://open.ed.ac.uk/virtual-world-simulator-platform-resources/ … Continue reading →

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