Opensim

im thinking of running my own virtual game with opensim
i would like to host a grid basicly like secondlife
ive already visited opensimulator.org that has not helped me at all i guess you can say im computer language dumb or whatever but im really frustrated with the issue of setting this up eaither i follow a tutorial and cant get my ip cause im networking or somthing else goes wrong ive went to almost every site for tutorials and nothing has helped i just need someone with a grid maybe to help me.....also the opensim tutorials i visited were not evan up to date with the versions of opensim that opensimulator.org has on the site......please help me and dont leave any rude comments ive been trying to set this opensim thing up for about a month now i dont want to give up.............please help me

also i dont want to know how to do a stand alone i want to host my actual grid evan tho it wont be built yet ill build while its being hosted............

please dont give me a website and leave me hanging im not as smart as i thought with this computer stuff...........thanks!


also ive been to meeble or whatever in the opensim chat and they were no help they gave me sites and other things that got me no where
ive also went to like legend city and i didnt see a reason to pay for somthing i can do free with help from you guys........thank you

I created two video tutorials on installing OpenSim standalone. You can find them here:
http://liferain.com/downloads/primcomposer/tutorials/

I have to ask, are you planning on making this accessible to the public, or will it just be for your own use? The reason I ask is that hosting a public sim from home is probably not a great idea, just as hosting websites from home usually doesn't work out too well. Home Internet connections typically do not have nearly the upload speed required for things like this. Users connecting to your sim (or grid) will likely experience massive lag.

That said, I've never done it, so I'm just speculating. The only way to know how well it does or doesn't work would be to go ahead and try. But I'd be awfully surprised if it were to perform well.

If it's just for your own use on your own network, though, then that's obviously a different story.



Great tutorials, by they way, Shack. I just watched the first one. Good stuff, very easy to follow.

Glad you received some help but you asked this same question in multiple forums here. This is called spamming and is frowned on.

Next time pick just one forum and post your question. If it not the correct one, you will be directed to the one where you will get the best info.

Hi

I an the owner of a Opensim grid that is soon to go public. I'm looking for content creators and developers to help run and to have some input into the grid.

Servers and the grid is already set up so you will not need to worry about any of that.

Why dont you come and join us and learn as you go along of what a opensim grid can do and then you will be able to decide if running your own grid is for you.


IM me inworld or reply on here if your interested.

All I know is that what you want to do isn't at all easy. And you do need to know about standalones, as that's the starting point for making an online grid.

Now that's putting the cart before the horse. lol.

I once installed a standalone sim on a windows machine. That was the easy part. Then i tried to make it accessible on the local intranet. But i failed to do so. That kept our admin away from creating such an island on a linux server and make it public.

Does anyone here have a good step to step description how to set up an open sim island for public access (also how the firewall need to be configured and such ...) and how much of bandwidth it would need to make it work feasible ? Then i could give it a secnd try and convince the admins to install one over here