has anybody had a serious play with OpenSim yet?
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
it got mentioned today in this post -
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as an offline building environment, and then later, somebody inworld was talking about it as a real alternative to sl once the age verification begins to bite.
This really caught my interest, and I am curious to know what the limitations and possibilities might be.
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spinster Voom
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11-02-2007 14:12
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Argent Asbrink
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11-02-2007 14:14
I'm in the midst of setting it up on a development box this weekend.
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Steve Mahfouz
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11-02-2007 14:24
has anybody had a serious play with OpenSim yet? http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page][url=http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page]http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page[/url] it got mentioned today in this post - http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=220674][url=http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=220674]http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=220674[/url] as an offline building environment, and then later, somebody inworld was talking about it as a real alternative to sl once the age verification begins to bite. This really caught my interest, and I am curious to know what the limitations and possibilities might be. Last time I used it, it was in alpha. If you are uber-geeky, you will love it. If not, you will get frustrated fast. _____________________
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Kitty Barnett
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11-02-2007 14:25
somebody inworld was talking about it as a real alternative to sl once the age verification begins to bite Also, you'd have no inventory and no L$, no friends and not even your own "name" which would make the whole experience rather dull for a lot of people and entirely unsuitable for content creators (no economy and the sim owner can just change permissions on their creations). |
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whyroc Slade
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11-02-2007 14:29
Open Sim works!
I have had it running on my LAN for a while. noteworthy: -Physics dont work too well, AV-ground ok, Av- object borky (I think they are working on a new module) -Tera forming is done on the command line (neat to drop the ground out from under your friends feet!) -As far as I can tell, Avatars aren't stored between sessions -no scripting yet -Sculpted prims work fine !!!! -I had 6 avatars running on my desktop machine as a server with no noticeable slowdowns Overall I would say its well worth it to try it out, the other spinoff project 'Dgig' looks interesting but I havent tried it -whyroc _____________________
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spinster Voom
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11-02-2007 14:48
First thought would be good luck finding a host that'll appreciate you running an explicit adult "site" without any age verification whatsoever, and/or someone who's willing to take legal responsibility for running it. it's a wee bit of an assumption that i'd want to do that! Thanks folks, it'll prolly be about january before i get time to play with the thing, but based on your feedback it looks quite promising. It looks a lot more scaleable than sl in the long run, or have i misunderstood it? |
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Kitty Barnett
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11-02-2007 14:54
it's a wee bit of an assumption that i'd want to do that!  . |