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Help with opensim please

LilBizzyBone Southmoor
Registered User
Join date: 1 May 2009
Posts: 6
05-04-2009 06:42
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
Vixus Snowpaw
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Join date: 16 Feb 2009
Posts: 5
05-11-2009 14:10
Hi there LilBizzyBone,

This is not the right forum for questions like this,
I suppose taking it to the Opensim forums would be your best option, Don't count on getting support on this issue right here.

Regards,
Vixus Snowpaw
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Rock Vacirca
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Join date: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,093
05-12-2009 03:01
Opensim step-by-step tutorials are here:

http://chapter-and-metaverse.blogspot.com/

Rock
Tasman Perth
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Join date: 7 Jun 2005
Posts: 225
05-27-2009 10:07
Hi Lil!
I'll go on record admitting that OpenSim has a steep learning curve, and the documentation lags the current version by quite a bit and in several cases is just flat WRONG.. Having said that, I'd not recommend trying to get OpenSim working unless you are pretty comfortable with computers.. I'm a network admin in RL, been playing with computers for over 20 years, and it took me/IS taking me quite a while to get my OpenSim working the way I want it to.. Plus it is a "moving target".. The developers are very prolific on new versions, and it keeps getting better.. When I started playing with it, about a year ago, it was pretty bad.. Now, I've got a standalone sim that stays up for days at a time.. I use my sim as a nice quiet sandbox to build my "castles in the sky" and use SecondInventory to move them over to SL when their done.. I guess all I can tell you is that if you really want your own OpenSim, you gotta be willing to work at it, and learn.. I believe it will be worth it, as OpenSim looks like its on-track to give LL a run for its $$$, based on all the other OpenSim grids that are popping up, most of which, withOUT Linden Lab's bureaucratic baggage, and their increasing greed for virtual land..

Hope this helps...

Tas
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Conifer Dada
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Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,716
05-28-2009 04:52
Open Life did a ready-to-run standalone that was easy to download and run - almost what they call 'plug-and-play'. I had a nice standalone, although it got lost in a computer crash, and the later OL versions won't work for me.

Downloading an OpenSim standalone looks much more difficult - I couldn't manage it even after reading up and being given advice.

But you do need to know all about standalones before even thinking about trying to put a grid online.
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