Three more great regions that show opensim at its best! HG addresses at the end of the post, as usual. Once again, some funky teleport issues for our intrepid hypergridding team, whose tenacity and resilience makes them HG Heroes.
Obviously, when it comes to opensim code, nobody who matters cares about what I think, but it bears pointing out the frustration that the code creates in the following scenario: A desperate IM arrives, asking "where are you all?' and 'can you tp me?" The person is definitely online, but when I reply, there's this popup: 'Unable to send message. User is not online'. But the person IS online. And their message reached me - so why can't my reply reach them? *SCREAM: THIS SHOULD BE A BASIC FUNCTION OF OPENSIM WHY DOESN'T IT WORK RIGHT* That said, here's a more positive take on it all.... Sunbeam Magic: LOL what a comedy of errors ;) lol all worked out fine as always ! HUGS ♥
This week, our final stop was at the International Space Museum, on Kitely. Rosa Alekseev, Shanna Starship, Kat Lemieux and Mike Lorrey were inworld to welcome us and give us the tour.
Rosa Alekseev: Welcome to ISM! Mike Lorrey: how many are coming today? Thirza Ember: well, we started out 24, but Outworldz had us crashing, so i don't know how many will survive Lucy Afarensis: Thanks rough weather getting here
Mike Lorrey: Welcome to the International Spaceflight Museum, we are the same organization which operates in SL, we just have a little more room here, twice as much actually. ISM is a Texas 501c3. Our mission is to document and exhibit all the worlds endeavors with spaceflight. Thirza Ember: what's your rl connection to space, guys? Kat Lemieux: Thirza, I grew up with the space program since my dad was a chief engineer at the Cape in the 1960s
This was week 150 of the Safari, and one might think that after a hundred and fifty trips around the hyperverse, we would have run out of new things to see, and just be tootling around previously seen places... if you think that, you could not be more wrong!
Pangea, Metropolis
Here are three amazing first looks for the Safari, on three iconic opensim grids. Details of how to get to each one at the end of the post, and you're definitely going to want to see all of these this summer.
This week, once again, two destinations with a lot going on! We started on Kroatan Grid, and then went to explore 3rd Life grid (as usual, addresses at the end of the post) where, once again, we got to meet the locals and get some of the backstory of the places we were seeing. There's nothing better for appreciating your surroundings than to have a bit of context, don't you agree? So here's what we found out, hopefully you will take a trip to see these lovely places, and make some new friends.
First up, Kroatan, a park-like grid, where the opensimworld Beacon registered our arrival and bumped us up to the top of the webpage... you could tell that, because suddenly some people from a Brazilian grid, and from partydestinationgrid showed up, rather bemused to come across a crowd, it seemed. We invited them to join us, but it appeared that the concept of a tour group in hg was beyond their ken... maybe next time...
Sunshine Szavanna, Whirli Placebo, and Joao Frazao, with some help from the magical special effects of Cherry Manga, and in all about 60 friends and fellow conspirators, all came together to celebrate three years of crazy crashing, awesome art, intrepid investigating, and excessive exploring around the metaverse.
Sunshine shared with us some fabulous World music, from Africa and Asia, on the theme of travel and family, both central to the hypergrid experience.
This week was a whistle-stop tour through three smallish grids, each one uniquely beautiful and interesting. The grid addresses at the end of the post, so you can go and take a look for yourself... they're all well worth a visit!
First up, Phaandoria. We landed in the shadow of a Linda Kellie creation, the Autumn Castle, a symbol in a way of the share-alike mentality this grid is famous for. Then we moved over to Nerdpol region, distinctly different in design... time for some fireworks!
They say it takes two to tango, but in the case of our second destination this week, it was really a case of three... we visited Condensation Land on Metropolis, to talk to Zonja CapaliniLudmilla Writer and Plastichansa Bade about collaboration in art and the journey these regions have taken from SL, to an eponymous mini grid, to their current home in one of opensim's favorite grids.
Juliette SurrealDreaming: yeah that one is really nice Zonja.Capalini: Then, also: we have Ludmilla Writer here. She's one of the creators of Arrabal Tango Club! The other one being Favio Piek, but he seems to have left virtuality, which is a pity... Inside you'll find some gifts, and some notecards informing you of some basic facts about Arrabal Zonja Capalini: Plastic has also created this sculpture in the center, and the moving HG Safari letters, and a number of other things :) What's in Arrabal? On one side, the tango club -- there's a dance ball stuffed with plastic's npcs, which we'll be able to try later. People who came here liked to take snapshots of the club, and donated these snapshots so that we could make an exhib Arielle Delamerlibre: do you have regular parties? Zonja Capalini: No, not for the moment, Arielle. The exhibition is at the right of the club. I've also put six (iirc) TV sets over there. These TV sets will show you pictures of parties celebrated at arrabal, Even a wedding party :) Decoration was decided by Ludmilla and Favio...You can read the story of Arrabal here Ludmilla Writer: I love Arrabal... It's a very beautiful place in SL and Here, now, too Arielle Delamerlibre:okay thank you a nice environment so far. has to come to life
Zonja.Capalini: And you will find tons of interesting pointers in the notecard, when you buy the HG Safari thing with the flashing light bulbs... In the exhibition you'll find photos from Andromeda Volare, Jaja Lubitsch, Ro8 Avro, India Leigh... Sura Abismo, Favio Piek, Ludmilla Writes, Mikil Tiki... Regarding the migration, we were caught in the Openspace fiasco, I was paying for two full regions, And converted one into four Openspaces, Then the price was raised from 75US$ to 125$, Obviously, there was ample outrage... First we migrated to Openlife. Then we created out own mini-grid,: Hosted in a shared machine, On a *slow* SDSL line,: But it worked, The mini grid allowed free registration and had up to 100 users at the time.
Ludmilla, 'Plastichana' (NPC) and Zonja
Arielle Delamerlibre: and why did you finished with the mini grid? Zonja Capalini: Then I had problems in RL, stopped caring, the machine had no maintenance, the database got corrupted, and finally we closed the SL version of Arrabal... Because my RL crashed, and required a cold reboot :), I don't like to mix levels, but it was horrible. All my attention was required IRL Arielle Delamerlibre: yeah sometimes it does Zonja Capalini: Then, one year ago, Ludmilla by chance met Plastic. He told her that he was attempting to recreate the full Condensation archipielago from his memories alone! I entered SL and talked to him, I had lost all my technical expertise, but I still had some very old OARs. They didn't work with the then current version of Opensim. After some iterations, we had Condensation running.: I asked Plastic to co-maintain Condensation with me, and he kindly accepted. And we have since established a creative partnership which is fantastic for both of us :). Arielle Delamerlibre: I will see the further development and I will dance Tango here Zonja Capalini:You can read a quite detailed account of the story of Condensation here . And of course today's meeting will have a video and will end up in a TV set here :) Thirza Ember: We need more dance animations in opensim, for the Tango would be great... is this site any good for finding useful dance animations? https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/daz-friendly-releasecompared with when we first found opensim, there are so many more free and opensource resources available Billy Bradshaw: I have used some action type animations, the dance routines require additional work Zonja.Capalini: Yes, absolutely. Now the performance of Opensim is outstanding Pathfinder Lester: very true...more content...better performance... Zonja Capalini: Even in SL, in 2007, with so many people the sim would have difficulties Thirza Ember: half the problem is tht we just do not know what free resources are out there Pathfinder Lester: yes, finding the stuff! lol Zonja Capalini: And for a very reasonable price...: Metropolis isn't cheap, and still, 30€/mo for a 1024x1024 is a bargain...And with the introduction of mesh, you can have many more objects, since the land impact decreases... What I love of Opensim is that you can always come back and make it a little more beautiful, a little more detailed, a little more perfect. It's like a picture that you can always perfect more and more... Thirza Ember: and unlike SL, there is less stress about money and time... you can take a long time to make your build Zonja Capalini: Exactly. The people I'm meeting here are much more focused on creating and sharing
Thirza Ember: I know, like Cendres, Plastichansa is a big fan of the free share alike community, that's an important part of the experience, Zonja.Capalini: Yes, he's so generous with everything he creates Cendres Magic: for me, in opensim, no chain Zonja Capalini: Yes :) The only problem I have is that I can't log in as often as I would love Cendres Magic: specially thanks to hgsafary helping to discover Thirza.Ember: We are having a big party on May 24 to mark the 3rd year of this adventure...it's nice that Wizard Gynoid is here today....she was my first 'victim' on May 20, 2014 Pathfinder.Lester: guinea pig? Wizard Gynoid: I thought Thirza was my first victim. Thirza Ember: yes wiz, we were reciprocal victims Wizard Gynoid: Thirza and I hosted the Safari every Wednesday without fail for a year. Thirza Ember: To mark the three years of Safari, we will have 3 hours of music and I hope many will come... on FrancoGrid today, Nino Whitman made available a region, on its own server, it is another example of the generosity of opensim... so we can (in theory ) have 200 people... so spread the word!
Zonja Capalini: Well Condensation Land turns 10 this month... We'll be celebrating on Sat the 27th I think Pathfinder Lester: congratulations!: that's quite a milestone Zonja Capalini: It's an enormity :) Thirza Ember: the great thing about opensim is even after 3 years we have not exhausted the number of places to visit, or revisit, because many times 1 visit is not enough to see it all Zonja Capalini: Sure, it's so huge that you'll never finish it... Wizard Gynoid: This avie has logins on dozens of virtual worlds. Mal Burns: think am now 12 yrs - but that dates to before i escaped walled kindergarten Thirza Ember: Mal you don't look a day over 9 Mal Burns: tks Thirza!!! Zonja Capalini : But I don't move much, to say the truth -- I spend all my time creating and filming :) Mal Burns: nice films Zonja Thirza Ember: that is really the paradox of opensim... it's important to take time to be creative, but if we do not support each other, by visiting the builds in other places, then there is no 'audience' and the creativity can stall, it needs to be a flow of both making and sharing, also, because that's how collaborations can happen...for example: there is the Kroatan Photo competition... anyone from any grid can give a photo for the competition... the photo should be something funny or strange that happens in opensim... it can be taken on any grid... that's the kind of multi-grid experience that really helps the hypergrid to become one family Pathfinder Lester: Thirza, I remember back in the old days of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club, sometimes I would have trouble finding new places to go. Amazing how that has changed... Zonja Capalini: Exactly -- that's why Plastic and me are so happy to cooperate, we are each one the audience of the together one :) I think the HAC came once to Condensation, but I might be mistaken... Cendres Magic: lot of things around - great Zonja Capalini: Yes... It's very detailed... You can spend a whole afternoon here and not finish with Arrabal...That's why I'm trying to document it all.. It's a lot of work, but I think it's worth it Billy Bradshaw: I will test the dance facilities
Zonja Capalini: Yeah let's go dance! :)The dance ball is on top of the bar. All npcs are from Plastic. Billy Bradshaw: Big girl, but I shall mange :) Thirza Ember: bad internet tonight... it's like what we were saying with Gavin, talking about the Viewer.... when everything works perfectly, we don't appreciate it... it's only when there are problems that we notice Zonja Capalini: Well we had router problems yesterday, I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to properly host the meeting...So that I tried tethering using my phone's 4G. It works perfectly ...in the end I've not had to use it, tho. Billy Bradshaw: I find if I change my socks things go so much better Thirza Ember: Billy's Universal Sock Theory also works Billy Bradshaw: Quantum socks Zonja Capalini: Yes. I'm used to a level of performance and smoothness that's vastly superior to the SL of 2007 here... Billy Bradshaw: This chick tries to remove my specs I swear !! snowbody Cortes: lol Billy Here is Zonja's vid of our visit, please, take time to watch it, it's beautiful, and some amazing quality shots, proving that HG Visitors do not necessarily mean impossible lag on a region.
Thirza Ember: Zonja are you going to make an avatar for Fest'Avi? Zonja Capalini: Oh, I'm not good at making avatars. Plastic is great, tho. You should ask him :) And he's very unconventional, which is good... Look at the Libdescent npcs, for example, or the one I'm dancing with... Thirza Ember: I think Billy is a bit at risk though Billy Bradshaw: ha - live a little, Thirza Zonja Capalini: Ah! Hadn't seen that one myself. It's superb! Thirza Ember: that's the fun of group hypergridding, I find, the presence of a group is a sort of catalyst,: a load test but also it has an interesting effect on the way you see a region, changing its personality, somehow Zonja.Capalini: Sure, one feels compelled to prepare everything so that it's beautiful...
HG Address:Arrabal Tango Club is on Condensation land on Metropolis:
