Kyle Murley's List: 3D Ed Environments

• Polygonal meshes can be stored in a number of file formats:

   
   
  • Collada
   
  • DXF
   
  • Obj
   
  • PLY
   
  • STL
   
  • VRML
   
  • X3D

  • Need to see if can get files into one of these formats to extract the mesh for later xml conversion and import

• Henshin V - From Autocad to Second Life (now to Opensim too).
  Full demo of the new features of Henshin V: from the design to the final building.
  Easier, faster, powerful.

• OpenSim has a quite elaborate set of permissions. See OpenSim:Permissions(Server) for  for details

  • Need to see about perms levels for asset creation in own region.
• External regions cannot be added to an OpenSim running in this mode
• Be aware of loopback problems when Running viewer & server(s) on the  same machine (LAN) but using the "external" configuration. (You might notice  endless waiting for region handshake.) See also troubleshoot  hints

  • This might have some clues why Tom's works on campus but not on home lan
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• start up secondlife with the following command line switches:

  -loginuri http://127.0.0.1:9000/ -loginpage http://127.0.0.1:9000/?method=login

• to connect to your new grid with your secondlife client. You need to tell  your client to point at the UserServer rather than directly at the sim, though:  

  secondlife -loginuri http://127.0.0.1:8002/ 

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• On the OpenSim server console you may do some basic administration. The commands  implemented so far are
• User Server console for gridmode
• User Server console for gridmode
• load-xml [filename] [-newUID] [offset_x offset_y offset_z] - load prims from XML
• load-oar [filename] - load an OpenSimulator archive. This entirely replaces the  current region.
• save-oar [filename] - save the current region to an OpenSimulator archive.  Default filename is scene_oar.tar.gz.
• permissions [on|off] - each user becomes super user
• • terrain save - Saves the current heightmap to a specified file.
• • terrain bake - Saves the current terrain into the regions revert map.
• terrain revert - Loads the revert map terrain into the regions heightmap

• SVNBackup Module

   
   
  • svn save - saves a current copy of all your regions to SVN.  
  • svn load - loads SVN head and imports it to your region.
• save-xml/load-xml [primitivename] [filename]

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• Try 0.0.0.0 for the internal_ip_address
• external_host_name="127.0.0.1" will need to be changed to the accessable DNS name  such as "opensim.example-host.com" or "71.6.131.152" (your public accessable ip)

• I can connect but cannot move

   

  If the client connects but the avatar can only spin in place and not move,  then the sim is not correctly configured. It completed the initial login  function, but packets are not being exchanged between the client and the sim,  probably due to a network configuration error on the sim.

  • This is what Tom mentioned having trouble with.

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• following table lists a subset of the available OpenSim.ini options. In the  actual OpenSim.ini file,

• represents the instantiation of a dream I have had for two years now. That is,  the use of OpenSim to teach others in a virtual environment useful lessons to  help them grow and understand.

• We are working on building the university campus in our own OpenSim grid, and  trying to create some new stuff to encourage teachers to use it.
  

• What is the big picture? What is going to happen in the future?
  The  commercial history of the internet is not about inventing a complicated new  protocol or pioneering an innovative new technology. It is about taking simple  and scalable technologies and bringing them together in novel ways that improve  peoples' lives.

• Virtual Worldz Grid is run by Myron Curtis, an IT specialist at Butte College
• popular Diva Distro distribution of OpenSim
• e non-profit Immersive Education Initiative
• free hosting and free help for schools and colleges

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