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@OpenSim

Good news: The Linda Kellie assets available on Zadaroo have been conserved in the Internet Archive. Seriously, you never know when you'll need them.

HACK13 wrote the following post Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:52:41 +0100

So it has been a long time, and I don't plan on shutting down or stopping hosting Zadaroo #opensim #opensimulator assets anytime soon... but I wanted to ensure long-term accessibility to them. The raw files have now also been uploaded to #internetarchive for people in the future in case something were to happen to me.

https://www.zadaroo.com/

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #InternetArchive #LindaKellie

@OpenSim

(Not quite) fresh from the OpenSimWorld grapevine: AviTron announced its shutdown for the 27th.

I'm not sure if it's serious this time, seeing as it's rather short-term, or attention-seeking again.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #AviTron #Grid #Drama

@OpenSim

So Metaverse Day has been announced for January 2024.

If you don't want to wait for that long, but you want to attend a conference about #VirtualWords, the OpenSimulator Community Conference will take place on December 9th and 10th, 2023. Not the first one, but the 11th one.

It won't be about planning #TheMetaverse for the future. Rather, it will be about a decentralised #metaverse network that has been around and referred to as such for over 15 years: OpenSimulator.

Some facts for those who don't know it yet:

• launched in 2007

• free as in free beer

• free as in #FreeSoftware (BSD License)

• #OpenSource

• cross-platform

• based on the same technology as #SecondLife

• needs no #blockchain

• needs no #cryptocurrency

• works without #NFTs

• no #VR headset required, can be used on desktop and laptop computers

• actually #decentralised: over 400 public grids, almost all of which are interconnected via the #Hypergrid

• the Hypergrid has more than four times as much combined landmass as Second Life

• cheap land: many grids offer 256x256m regions for $10/month or less

• essentially infinite land resources because anyone can install and run their own #grid

The OpenSimulator Community Conference will probably be broadcast live via YouTube again. Videos from previous Community Conferences can be watched on AvaCon's Channel. Alternatively, it can be attended in person with an avatar. It can be created on the OpenSimulator Community Conference's own grid when registering for the event, or an existing avatar on most other grids can be used.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #OSCC #OSCC23 #Decentralized

@OpenSim

How to properly react upon #"Meta"'s announcement to finally add #Legs to #Horizons #Avatars?

#Memes, of course!

Based on Where Banana and Drakeposting.

A bit of explanation: Horizons is also known as #TheMetaverse or Faceboook's #Metaverse. As for what #OpenSim is, look here.

![Variant of the "where banana" meme with three orangutan animatronics in a TV talk show. The caption reads, "Second Life and OpenSim users after Horizons announces legs:" The orangutan on the right asks, "where big butts"](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/f8fb0323-ff1c-4c78-b285-5a7982b15633-2.jpg "Variant of the "where banana" meme with three orangutan animatronics in a TV talk show. The caption reads, "Second Life and OpenSim users after Horizons announces legs:" The orangutan on the right asks, "where big butts"")

![Variant of the Drakeposting meme with the Canadian singer Drake in two poses. The caption at the top reads, "Avatar innovation that'd be truly revolutionary:" The top picture with Drake in a dismissive pose holding his hand away from his face is captioned, "Horizons avatars with legs". The bottom picture with Drake in an approving pose with a smile and a raised index finger is captioned, "Second Life and OpenSim avatar shapes with long enough arms"](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/6e372d4b-c8d3-4f56-a7b2-3f562edfbc16-2.jpg "Variant of the Drakeposting meme with the Canadian singer Drake in two poses. The caption at the top reads, "Avatar innovation that'd be truly revolutionary:" The top picture with Drake in a dismissive pose holding his hand away from his face is captioned, "Horizons avatars with legs". The bottom picture with Drake in an approving pose with a smile and a raised index finger is captioned, "Second Life and OpenSim avatar shapes with long enough arms"")

#OpenSimulator #SecondLife #HorizonWorlds #VirtualWorlds #Meme #WhereBanana #Drakeposting #HotlineBling #EyeContact

@OpenSim

How to properly react upon #"Meta"'s announcement to finally add #Legs to #Horizons #Avatars?

#Memes, of course!

Based on Where Banana and Drakeposting.

![Variant of the "where banana" meme with three orangutan animatronics in a TV talk show. The caption reads, "Second Life and OpenSim users after Horizons announces legs:" The orangutan on the right asks, "where big butts"](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/f8fb0323-ff1c-4c78-b285-5a7982b15633-2.jpg "Variant of the "where banana" meme with three orangutan animatronics in a TV talk show. The caption reads, "Second Life and OpenSim users after Horizons announces legs:" The orangutan on the right asks, "where big butts"")

![Variant of the Drakeposting meme with the Canadian singer Drake in two poses. The caption at the top reads, "Avatar innovation that'd be truly revolutionary:" The top picture with Drake in a dismissive pose holding his hand away from his face is captioned, "Horizons avatars with legs". The bottom picture with Drake in an approving pose with a smile and a raised index finger is captioned, "Second Life and OpenSim avatar shapes with long enough arms"](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/6e372d4b-c8d3-4f56-a7b2-3f562edfbc16-2.jpg "Variant of the Drakeposting meme with the Canadian singer Drake in two poses. The caption at the top reads, "Avatar innovation that'd be truly revolutionary:" The top picture with Drake in a dismissive pose holding his hand away from his face is captioned, "Horizons avatars with legs". The bottom picture with Drake in an approving pose with a smile and a raised index finger is captioned, "Second Life and OpenSim avatar shapes with long enough arms"")

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #SecondLife #HorizonWorlds #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Meme #WhereBanana #Drakeposting #HotlineBling #EyeContact

Here's a premiere: the first #FollowFriday for #OpenSimulator.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about: OpenSimulator, also called #OpenSim, is a free and #OpenSource platform for 3-D #VirtualWorlds that uses largely the same technology as #SecondLife. It was launched as early as 2007. It mostly became a network of #federated, interconnected worlds (#"grid"s) when the #Hypergrid was introduced in 2008. And "#Metaverse" has been a part of the standard OpenSim vocabulary since before 2010, too.

It currently measures about 420 public grids at various sizes from tiny to slightly larger than Second Life itself and countless private grids, the vast majority of which are on the Hypergrid.

So without further ado, here are some suggestions:

• Shelenn Ayres
  #InfiniteMetaverseAlliance CEO. Co-organiser of the on-going #OpenSimFest #OSFest2023 that'll continue until the end of the month. Follow her now for the daily schedule. Also maybe your first #Friendica connection.
  → @Shelenn Ayres

• Mal Burns
  Creator and main host of #InworldReview, also creator of several other YouTube video series about virtual worlds. One of the organisers of #HypergridInternationalExpo which will return next month after six years.
  → Main account: @Mal Burns Main
  → OpenSim account: @Metaworld Opensim Social

• Thirza Ember
  Organiser of the weekly #HGSafari. One of the hosts of Inworld Review. Another one of the organisers of #HIE.
  → @Thirza

• Tosha Tyran
  One of the four founders and owners of #CraftWorld, one of the five oldest grids. Another one of the organisers of HIE.
  → @Tosha T.

• Kelso Uxlay
  Co-founder and co-owner of the #CreaNovale grid. Co-builder of the famous four-seasons varsim known as #Novale. And yet another one of the organisers of HIE.
  → @Kelso Uxlay

• Lone Wolf
  Founder and owner of the #WolfTerritoriesGrid, the second-largest OpenSim grid. Might be the single person who owns the most virtual land in the world, but he offers it for rent. Also founder and owner of the OpenSimSocial #Mastodon instance.
  → @Lone Wolf

• Hyacinth Jean
  Founder and owner of the #GroovyVerse grid and the GroovyToot Mastodon instance. Prolific #MeshBody maker; has forked Ruth 2.0 into #LuvMyBod and Diana and created her own private mesh body. Currently working on an alternative to #OpenSimWorld.
  → @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️

• vrsimility
  Working on an authentic, detailed recreation of 19th century #Liverpool in OpenSim.
  → @vrsimility

• OpenSimulator Community Conference
  The #OSCC is a yearly community event with a whole number of panels about OpenSim in particular and virtual worlds in general. Expect #OSCC23 to happen in December.
  → @OpenSim Community Conference

• Finally, the OpenSim community on #Lemmy
  Not a user for a change, but a place on Lemmy for OpenSim users/avatars to meet and discuss.
  → @OpenSim

#FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralized #Decentralization #Decentralised #Decentralisation #VirtualWorld #WolfTerritories #WolfGrid #Ruth2 #OSFest

@OpenSim

Exciting news from @Austin Tate/@Ai Austin: A new #OpenSource mesh avatar for #OpenSim is in the making! Oh, and it'll be available in #SecondLife as well. The project is called Max, the female body is named #Maxine, the male body is named #Maxwell. (Now we need an easily distinguishable hashtag for the whole project.)

Looks like Ada found it easier to make something completely new from scratch in Blender than to try to nip and tuck even the most glaring shortcomings out of #Ruth2 and especially #Roth2. Granted, we'll be back to zero clothes-wise, but it looks like chances are good that Max will have a working and usable dev kit, and making clothes for Max will be much easier than for Ruth2 and Roth2.

The new bodies will be licensed under #CreativeCommons #CC-BY-NC 4.0, probably a better choice for a mesh body than the #AGPL. After all, most Ruth2 and Roth2 spin-offs in Second Life are technically closed-source.

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:11:13 +0200

Max – New Open Source Mesh Avatar – Resources | Austin Tate's Blog
https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2023/09/13/max-new-open-source-mesh-avatar/

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #MeshBody

@OpenSim

Long time no #Meme. And this time it's not even an old and stale one, but a fairly new one: Adidas Sports Bra Medium Support. When I came cross it a few hours ago, it kind of reminded me what shapes of female mesh bodies are considered "normal" in #OpenSimulator and #SecondLife. So I couldn't help but adapt it.

![Exploitable meme based on a photograph showing two light grey upper body mannequins on a store shelf. The one to the right is rather voluptuous, the one to the left much less so. Both are wearing black Adidas Medium Support sports bras in their respective sizes. Above the photograph, there is a stripe of white background on which is written, "Mesh bodies be like". The mannequin to the left is labelled, "Petite". The much more voluptuous mannequin to the right is labelled, "Regular".](https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/8e597a53-2f71-455f-945b-524a6b173e89-2.jpg "Exploitable meme based on a photograph showing two light grey upper body mannequins on a store shelf. The one to the right is rather voluptuous, the one to the left much less so. Both are wearing black Adidas Medium Support sports bras in their respective sizes. Above the photograph, there is a stripe of white background on which is written, "Mesh bodies be like". The mannequin to the left is labelled, "Petite". The much more voluptuous mannequin to the right is labelled, "Regular".")

(On a sidenote: I don't go out of my way and describe meme pictures at the same pain-staking level of detail as my pictures from within #VirtualWorlds. The image itself plus the link to KnowYourMeme should be informative enough to understand the post so that I don't have to drop thousands of characters of #ImageDescription into meme posts. This #AltText here should be sufficient, and it shouldn't contain any information that isn't available anywhere else in the post or the link.)

#OpenSim #Metaverse #MediumSupportMeme

@OpenSim

Speaking of landing points, I think my next #OpenSim and #SecondLife how-to will explain how to find a party on a sim if it isn't right before your eyes.

This happens way too often: I'm at a party somewhere on a sim that isn't in the immediate vicinity of the landing point. Someone teleports in with no coordinates given, so they land at the landing point. They keep standing at the landing point for a few minutes, then they teleport back out.

As if they were looking for a party, then they teleported to a sim with lots of avatars on it, and then they couldn't cope with not having the party right in front of their nose.

As if they were unable to find a bunch of avatars on the map. As if taking a look at the map went beyond their imagination, and getting to where all those green dots are without a big teleporter in front of them labelled "Click here to get to the party" proved to be a Herculean task.

And I'm not even talking about newbies. I'm talking about avatars that are several years old.

That is, I might first have to write a tutorial on how to use the map to navigate.

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

To all you #OpenSim users out there: Follow @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️ if you don't do it already.

She's the owner of the #Groovyverse #grid (the one with The Big Mamou, home of the #LuvMyBod mesh body, and an impressive #NewYorkCity varsim), she also runs the @OpenSim #Lemmy community (join it if you haven't already), and she's no longer on #OpenSimWorld. But she's here.

More and more users are escaping from the rampant, out-of-control drama in that largely unmoderated place, even if there's no alternative.

Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️ wrote the following post Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:41:32 +0200

I have been on the OpenSimWorld website for years, and I finally deleted my account. I don't need another source of hate and negativity in my life. I love and care about OpenSim, and my grid family deeply. We have a beautiful, happy, peaceful world. It is really sad to see so many miserable people slugging out on that site every single day.

I really wish there were a better alternative, that just had region and event listings.

#OpenSim

Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️ wrote the following post Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:10:12 +0200

Some drama-free alternatives to OSW I am thinking of.

1. A simple searchable listing. They enter the region and grid, and it just fetches the standard search data and parcel picture. No drama, judgement, or comments. just the facts.

2. A hookup tool. You can check-in/announce where you are. And also who you want to meet. A friend, a lover,play a game, dance party.. come join us .. etc. And you can browse live listings of where people are and their interests.

#OpenSim

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

@OpenSim

Some of you might have trouble setting up the landing points on their sims in #SecondLife or #OpenSim, whether you're aware of it or not.

Consider yourselves lucky, for I've written an article on that matter.

(For those of you who demand #AltText for all pictures in the #Fediverse: Since I've posted this article on this #Hubzilla channel of mine, it's technically still in the Fediverse. So I've added an #ImageDescription which I hope is informative enough. It took me almost two hours to write, and it's 11,184 characters long. Thus, putting it into the alt-text was completely out of question, as was putting it directly into the article which only measures 6,842 characters. I could only solve this by putting the image description into a separate article, thus sacrificing a bit of #Accessibility to style.)

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

@OpenSim

I know it's tempting to disallow avatar scripts on your sims. I know that it can greatly improve the performance by killing off the heavy-weight scripts that some people wear on their avatars for whatever reasons of flashiness.

But keep in mind that the following things don't work anymore with avatar scripts off:

• Attached AOs. This may be one reason to disallow scripts because typical #SecondLife #ZHAO AOs use up tremendous amounts of server resources, and hardly any #OpenSimulator user has ever heard of #khAOs. But many #OpenSim users depend on attached AOs. They either don't know how to put an AO into their viewer, or they can't be bothered because attaching one is sooo much more convenient, and it gives you a HUD.

• Adjusting the foot position on most female mesh bodies from #SecondLife. Unless you've got your feet on "high" permanently, you can neither take your high heels off nor put them on.

• Switching the alpha mode on #Ruth2 v4 and #Roth2 v2. If it's forced to "off" when you teleport in, and your alpha masks stop working, you can't use your HUD to turn it back on, and you have to edit the body manually.¹

• The alpha HUD on pretty much all other mesh bodies. You can only change clothes if you don't need alpha-ing.

• Bento HUDs. You can't even correct your hands if your fingers are stretched into all directions.

• Sex, at least not if it involves at least one male avatar. Guys can't switch their boners on. Turning avatar scripts off on a sex-oriented sim is amongst the top five stupidest things you can possibly do as a sim owner.

¹By the way, yes, #BakesOnMesh supports alpha masks. If your mesh bodies don't, doesn't mean BoM as a whole doesn't.

#Metaverse #VirtualWorlds