NPC's & Bowling

After watching a couple of the breakout session vids of last weekends great Opensim Conference, it is back to building as usual. Since Red Dragon has a lot of space, I figured to start working on an indoor bowling alley. (thanks for the idea Mss. Moonwing). With Bullet physics being enabled in the next build of Opensimulator  (it's currently implemented, but not activated in opensim.INI ) we might even try to make it a working.one. If i can find a script guru that is willing to script it, that is.

I have also logged into Second Life for a couple of minutes, to re-enable my PikkuBot. I have had it running in OSG version 0.6.8 and am going to try to get it alive again on the current 0.7.x build. If i get it working again (recall it was simple, but very hard to find), i will post here how to get it working, if only for future reference.

Pikkubot is an extremely light weight text based Bot control program, that can be hooked up to ALICE AI (pandora chat bot), and do all kinds of useful things, like chat, host, dance, play games, follow you around. invite people to group etc, and this all completely independant of the OSG server hosting the red dragon regions. (It will be sort of a client based NPC).  Licensing of this bot can only be acquired through Secondlife, but you can get a free trial for a week.

Furthermore i played around with the radegast client, which is also a lightweight client, but still 10 times heavier than pikkubot (around 40 MB vs 320 MB of  RAM). I was impressed by its features, like voice and audio support, and the ease of having a minimal 3d viewer ad map access ( Pikku is txt only, at least it was the last time i used it ).

I know opensim has a built in working NPC script, but there is already plenty of documentation on that in OSG's forums ( And cool video's on youtube ).  These are however script created, and for as far as i know, can't get off the region there created on.

Opensim conference

If you regularly visit any or multiple grids,  i recommend you to visit the Opensim Conference  (click link for more details) which is held this weekend. There will be a variety of speakers and events, and the display regions that have been put up are just amazing. Very nice builds, and a great representation of what the various grids in the metaverse have to offer. Definitely worth a visit. The Expo regions are open to all public.

I believe all the sessions with speakers & keynotes are full.  Some free tickets are atill available at this link : https://opensimulator.eventbrite.com , and all will be streamed live on Ustream as it is happening  There are really interesting topics being discussed You can check back what already happened yesterday by going HERE and view the recorded streams. URL's to the live streams can be found after the page break.

I think this conference is already a huge success, only looking at the tremendous effort it must have been to set things up, and to get all these people from allover the world to collaborate and work together to create this event.  The regions & webpages look great, the expositions are awesome. Livestreams work like a charm, and all well is documented for us that were asleep, so we don't miss out. For some reason, it feels like it is a big step forward, all these worlds uniting in this conference.

To the organisation, the various speakers at the Opening Keynote and all the grid owners, Chapeau, you have made this an impressive event, and thank you for making our virtual lives possible. This event will be an annually recurring one, but the grid (which is specifically built for this event ) will disappear after a few months, so make sure to pop by whilst you have the chance.  On map : cc.opensimulator.org:8002

This conference was one of the best and most informative event i ever visited in the metaverse. I recon i'll be busy a few more days watching all the recorded streams with the sessions i missed. But since all i attended was awesome, i need to see the rest as well.
Pictures of the event can be found on the Google+ event  page HERE. mind to add yours if you made any.

GreenHouse & Region Update.

 Having way too much space on my hands, i figured to build another clubby build. Since the chosen colour was Green, i slightly modified the surroundings, and made a dance floor surrounded by an an in house jungle. You can find the GreenHouse on the Red Dragon Club X build, by walking in the front door, and keep going straight ahead, past the shops.

Located directly above the club is a Gallery displaying some pictures of the Red Dragon builds in progress. On the same floor, you will also find a small Photo studio, with some nice picture backgrounds, and a "Perfect Pillars" shop that offers a variety of pillars.

Red Dragon has updated all its regions to the 0.7.6.dev.23ca1f8 version which can be downloaded HERE. I don't know what changes have been made, but the regions run nice and smooth, and seem to perform better than the last version we had installed.
We also fixed an issue with regions being unavailable, giving a "Null" reply in console. This occurred when the system resumed from a "sleep" state. Regions appear up and running, but TP is impossible. Simply switching off the power management for the disks has most likely resolved this. And last but not least, for the fans, Linda Kelly's stuff can be found & downloaded again on the new website http://zadaroo.com/

Red Dragon at Wright Plaza

As of last week, Red Dragon Nite Club has a small shop on Wright Plaza in OSGrid. When you drop in at the landing zone, you will see it on your right side. Were across "Sarah's Creations" and have M Spiritor and Rigid as our neighbours.  Audio on the plot is powered by Pulse Radio, and there are some nice freebies to fetch. If you allow the media to play, you will get served this Blog, so you can read up on the latest topic here. Upstairs is a mini dance floor and some lights, to get into the clubby groove.

Our version X regions are generally up every evening, the V8 build is only on in weekends. The pictures displayed on the shop will provide in landmarks to the varions Red Dragon islands. If TP fails, the regions are down. If i'm online, my regions generally are as wel. If not, feel free to send an IM.

Especially when new to OSGrid, wright plaza is a very good place to start your virtual explorations in this world. It has many shops with a diversity of  great free stuff, and landmarks to many great places. Also it is home to the biggest freebie store in OSG, the Freebie HQ, where you can also share your own creations with the residents of the grid. Looking for basic stuff for your AV ? skins clothing, eyes, homes, you will find all of it at Wright. Last but not least, wright is the location where the Town Hall meetings are held, and its where OSG's Travel Office has its home location. From there you can teleport to a range of region showcases in both OSgrid and the hypergrid.