Monthly Archives: May 2024

OpenSim-NGC – Resources

Posted on May 31, 2024 by bat

A variant of OpenSim created by Mike Dickson and his collaborators is “OpenSim – Next Generation Core”. The aim stated there is: The OpenSim-NGC project is designed to be different from OpenSimulator Core in a couple of important ways. We … Continue reading →

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Second Life – Duet Using Suno.ai

Posted on May 26, 2024 by bat

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yawgoo/84/96/2992 An installation by technorabbit in Second Life. Replicants Duet between Deckard and Rachel inspired by Bladerunner Information from YouTube Video description: This demonstration makes use of https://suno.ai to generate the voices and backing track for a duet between Deckard … Continue reading →

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Three Hills Grid – Pandora

Posted on May 22, 2024 by bat

There are many wonderful Na’vi/Avatar themed virtual world regions in Second Life and OpenSim. See some examples in my log posts https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/?s=na’vi A new one for my exploration is the Iknimaya region on Three Hills Grid, an OpenSim DreamGrid-based installation. … Continue reading →

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Blender – Fix Mirrored Parts Shading Issues

Posted on May 21, 2024 by bat

I am getting shading/colour issues on glTF exports of parts in Blender models that were probably created in the far distant past as a mirror of an airplane wing or piece on one side transposed to the other. The “broken” … Continue reading →

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glTF Abstract Art – Exploded Oil Rig Model Parts

Posted on May 17, 2024 by bat

Exploded Oil Rig Model Parts in Second Life Project Gltf Development 7.1.7.9103672349 (16-May-2024) When a glTF model is loaded into the Second Life glTF mesh capable viewers that are under development the parts can be stretched out, rotated or misaligned. … Continue reading →

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OpenSim – Server Quick Start

Posted on May 15, 2024 by bat

OpenSimulator (often shortened to OpenSim) is an open source virtual world platform which implements most of the Linden Lab Second Life virtual world protocols and extends it in some ways convenient for educational and other extended uses. This blog post … Continue reading →

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Firestorm grids.xml at May 2024

Posted on May 13, 2024 by bat

Firestorm 7.1.9 onwards has an improved “Grids List” mechanism for adding and managing grids. This is described at https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2024/06/15/firestorm-opensim-add-grid/. The information below is left in place got historical purposes. Firestorm has a file named grids.xml giving an initial list of … Continue reading →

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Batmobile 3D Model

Posted on May 6, 2024 by bat

Based on Batmobile on Sketchup by Sam146 (https://sketchfab.com/sam146) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/1966-batmobile-744a9b83b392454897d296c2919f1f91 Blender import of Collada original model and textures, conversion to power of 2 textures, flipping many normals to regularise the appearance of the model and additions to more closely resemble the … Continue reading →

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Metaverse Crossroads

Posted on May 5, 2024 by bat

Metaverse Crossroads is a GitHub Organization to collect together a range of resources to help promote Metaverse and linked virtual world activities and experiences. It was created by @Humbletim. https://github.com/metaverse-crossroads Early work includes a fix (Github link) to improve the … Continue reading →

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