Our first stop this week was on an unforgettable region on Mobius Grid, one of the most unusual and colorful grids in Opensim, run by the unparalleled Royale Mobian. It's a great place to visit any time, by yourself, but to be there with Royale, standing in for the grid's creator, was a real treat.
Not only is the storyline of the Legend of Zelda an epic, the video game's history is also of legendary proportions - beginning in the eighties, the game continues to be popular and has grown with the technology - the latest version is Hyrule Warriors, Age of Imprisonment.
However for most of the Safarians on this trip, it's associated with early gaming, with their youth and the wonderful sense of adventure and agency that Zelda supplied. This post about the Zelda 'back in the day' captures the vibe.
Zelda has interesting parallel with opensim in that there are opportunities to go out exploring and do side quests within the game and if you do, you will often pick up useful items, or gain experience that will come in handy as you progress from level to level. Just like the HG, but with less hair loss, and more sword-and-shield action.
The sim and majority of the model work is brought to us by Diana Dismantled, says the Notecard you get when you arrive, which also credits Meme Resident with some of the extra model work, with a nod to the resident builder, Geminai Resident.
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| The gang arrive on Mobius |
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă : there's loads of mesh here so turn up your LOD if you can to not miss it, Royale will be here in a sec... take your time rezzing the place, and our fellow travellers' outfits.
Cherry Manga: even the music stream is Zelda themed!
James Atlloud: Classic reflecting floor technique!
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Hello everyone, are you all loading in fine?
eva Nowicka: hi Royale, yep.. a great fps
Giggles DeClown: I am loaded *hic*
George Equus: 70 fps here
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: good to hear. Anyways I am Royale, I answer to either Royale, Roy or Serra when I am inworld. you call me either one is best for you, I am the owner of Mobius Grid and I am filling in for the region owner Dee today to give you a tour of their region.
James Atlloud: Looking forward to it
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: hmmm 'where's my hair' is my usual question, but not today.
Cherry Manga: Thirza ears and tail fits you perfectly! =^_^=
James Atlloud: I just noticed the other thirza is a mobian
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: This Region is a recreation of the world map of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the N64. Dee put a lot of time into the build and scripts here and still is, it is a 5x5 var and alot to see so warning you might not see everything today but you can always come back and explore later
James Atlloud: My first Nintendo was the 64 so I came to Zelda a bit late. Started with Sega of course.
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: same here James, but i am only 33 so i was tiny then lol
James Atlloud: lol
Taarna Welles: Cute
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: anyways who is familiar with Experience on SL? as this is important for the tour
James Atlloud: oh, I used experience a little bit, also on the last Safari to the grid.
Cherry Manga: we need more grids with Experience!!!!
Giggles DeClown: Didn't Jimi ask if you were experienced?
Cherry Manga: :))
Dorena Bree: I was never in SL, so I have no experience
James Atlloud: aww
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: make sure you allow the experience and set your lighting to shared to enjoy the region as intended... also
Cherry Manga: I am very curious how you implemented experience here in os :)
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: absolutely
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| Royale gives us some background info |
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Ruby our dev did it in 2018 actually, Mobius is the grid who brought Experience tools to Opensim. It's in the NGC fork now... you all using Firestorm? Go to your avatar menu and the 6th option from the top is 'Experience'... click it, you should see in allowed Trine if you allowed the experince
Dorena Bree: huh, I never knew that was there lol Thanks
Giggles DeClown: Nothing on Allowed. Nothing came up when searching for Trine.
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: if its not there click the search tab, set rating to A, be sure you have moderate active, not only general,then it will fine all experiences
Giggles DeClown: Awww..... Max Content got set at General... silly Preferences. It should know me by now.
James Atlloud: OH! wow, that worked
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Welcome to Castle Town
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: here comes that mesh!!
Taarna Welles: love to hear the Zelda Theme
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: its a work in progress but if you played Ocarina you should recognize it. While not all running yet Dee is working on remaking many of the mini games from the game like fishing, target range etc
Taarna.Welles: I played the 8 bit version a long time ago :)
James Atlloud: totally recognize it - love the volcano, and the ring of smoke
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: you can go inside the volcano like in the game, if you can go there in the og game you can here mostly, there's some spots still needing to be meshed
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: this is a true labor of love.. was Dee a mesh maker in SL before coming to Mobius? or did she learn blender here in opensim?
𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Dee is a big fan of this game so yeah... Dee is one of the earliest Mobius Grid users, but was a builder on SL for years before Mobius Grid existed, and still is a shadow builder (like a ghost author) for several big products on SL.
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: and this is a passion project
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: yeah... explore the town guys, I highly recommend looking inside the temple
We ran inside the church-like building with its distinctive triangle symbolism and strange writing. As a Zelda agnostic, I felt a sense of sacrilege being there, but that didn't stop me standing on everything.
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: nice in here i'm pretty sure i will be banned for standing on this
Giggles DeClown: snazzy :) Needs wood paneling and a wet bar, and one very subtle almost hidden Banksy. Just for a touch of class.
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: omg Giggles you read my mind when you said bar LOL
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: not every building rezzes for me... even when i was here alone days ago, some textures never appeared
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: the grey ones?
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: yes
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: those are the default grey, no texture yet
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: ahh good, i thought it was me, the beauty of opensim is you can take your time, no rush
James Atlloud: This was a bustling town iirrc, are NPCs a possibility?
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: yes James NPCs are planned... Dee is working on an experience HUD system so you can talk to the NPCs etc.
James Atlloud: oh wow, that's great
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿:would you all like to see Lake Hylia or Goron City next?
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: let's hit the lake
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Welcome to Lake Hylia home to the games most hated dungeon lol, if you have your sky set to shared environment you might see the region has a custom day/night cycle
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: the sky is pink for me! i don't think this tail is waterproof
Giggles DeClown: *shakes like a dog to dry off*
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: its made to be the same length and look as the games daynight cycle
Cherry Manga: wow incredible, what a level of details
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Dee pays a lot attention to details
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| Taarna takes to the bridge at Lake Hylia |
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: do you have any questions you like to ask about the region?
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: I guess my question is - will there be a version of the zelda game to play, or is the idea simply to recreate the feel of the original?
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Thirza they are working on a game hud, to try to be close to the N64 games
Cherry Manga: /me waits for Dee to go for The Wind Waker :)))
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Cherry thats planned for ground level
Cherry Manga: wooot!!
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: Dee is making OoT [Ocarina of Time] and MM [Majora's Mask] first
Cherry Manga: can't wait to cut weeds with my sword! and break pots!or vases
James Atlloud: excellent Cherry!
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: I'm sorry - 'wind waker' sounds like a bean-based dinner you regret about 15 minutes after eating... I am not very well informed
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: lol
Cherry Manga: pffffffffff don't break my childhood
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| Inside the volcano |
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: lets go to the volcano...
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: it must have been interesting how to organize these various levels or environments, to have space for everything
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: yeah Dee took a lot of time to do so
James Atlloud: bit by bit - literally
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| Forest arrives just in time to meet the Goron |
Forest Azure: Sorry to be late, everybody.... oh.. Zelda :)
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: I will head over to the volcano to tp you all over to save time
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: what is that creature??? he is adorable
James Atlloud: they are adorbs
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: oh that's a Goron.
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: that's one of the WIP NPCs (well, Animesh)... they plan to use OSSL NPCs for NPCs that walk around alot. and use Animesh for the more stationary NPCs
James Atlloud: Gorons are considered neutral good
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: they also eat rocks
Cherry Manga: and beans
James Atlloud: mmm beans
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: lol oh now I'm beginning to understand this game
Royale led us up a long mountain track onto a high point.
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: follow me... is your drawn distance at 1024?
James Atlloud: it is now
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: if not set it to max and look out where i am looking at
Forest Azure: it is now
Dorena Bree: wow!
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: from here you can see the castle town, the field, one of the villages Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: extraordinary... there is so much more here that we won't have time to see but I guess you will invite us back when the game is closer to completion?
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: yeah, Dee works in bursts, she's in a break mode atm but this region was a months work of hers
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: hopefully our visit will move her to continue!!
Giggles DeClown: wheeeeeee
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: this grid is such an unique part of opensim you can visit so many grids that kind of all look similar - then you come here....
Cherry Manga: Mobius is THE grid where it's perfectly built, optimized and faithful to its inspirations
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: ok last stop for you guys since you're almost out of time... James you should know this spot all too well
James Atlloud: oh yes - the skills tests?
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: The forest village you start in
James Atlloud: I loved the bow and arrows
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And with that, James began to run and throw somersaults all around the camp. The environment lighting makes it look kind of gloomy (because in a group visit like this, having graphics turned up too high will just lag you out) and James with his magic crocs was so quick, that I was lucky to get these few seconds of video. As you can see though, when the interactivity kicks in on every part of this sim, it's going to become a gamer's magnet..
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: btw the lost woods work
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: omg james is jumping all over
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: follow me... the entrance to the lost woods
Time was running out for us on this group visit, but of course that will not stop each of us from returning. We knew from the start that there was no way we would get to visit every environment on the sim, including this fabulous stone statue...
...nor was there really time to get to grips with the amazing underground tunnels in the Lost Woods...
...nor was there really time to get to grips with the amazing underground tunnels in the Lost Woods...
James Atlloud: good timing for the night cycle!
Sven Ingersoll: ty Royale :-)
Cherry Manga: thank you very much Royal! Can't wait to meet Link!
James Atlloud: Thank you Roy!! Amazing as always!
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: shouts: everyone feel free to contact me if you have questions or want to look around more
Ͳ ʜ I Я Z ă: this was really fun, thanks Roy, and thank Dee for us!
💿𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷💿: np cya around and will do
HG Address: main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Iridios
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