Updated Red Dragon Club

All Red Dragon regions have been updated to 0.7.6.dev.53de6d9 build of OSG. All is up and running very stable & smoothly so far. The picture on the left is the beginning of the bowling thingy i started building in this topic. Its located on the 1st floor in the back of Red Dragon Nite Club Region.

As you might have already noticed, I slightly modified the layout of this page. You will possibly see more changes occur in the future. For now I have changed the width of the page and added a top menu, which will (eventually) lead you to new content.
Also i removed some elements from the frontpage and placed those on separate pages, like IRC, the (very nice) Hexxagon game, and the chatbot. I added an extra column to the links section, so it appears less massive, and you can find all the goodies faster. The tag cloud will take you to random pages on my blog. Furthermore some clubs and links were added, and dead / inactive Blogs were removed. Checked 2170 web pages, found 25 broken links. Meaning most the goodies are still where they belong. Go grab some.

Bugfix new release and Crazy Diamond club

As you might have read on twitter, OSG forums or Hypergridbusiness the 4096 bug that's been there since forever has been fixed. A developer from Singularity named "Latif Khalifa" fixed it. Test results of various OSG residents confirm. Another limitation squashed. Hurray for Latif. No more teleport problems.

Since the Opensim conference it appears things work more smoothly between various party's involved with opensimulator, and hopefully it will bring more good things. I read in some chatlogs there are people working on the scalable regions again, so who knows what the future will bring. A little downtime last week seems to have improved the performance of the asset server. stats  Also new version of OSgrid Simulator was released, you can grab it here . If you really like OSgrid you should use this link.


Whilst hopping around the map looking for hidden gems, my eye got caught by a guitar on the map. I popped over and found a club, called The Crazy Diamond Club. Nice rock music there, but since there was no party, i took the liberty to sit down and write this magnificent piece of Blog.


If you want to visit this region yourself, find "SoundChaser" on the OSgrid map. You land at 500 mtr in the club, have to pop down if you want to see the Guitar. Can't wait to party here someday.

Pic's of the shop and voting system

As you likely have read in the previous topic, Red Dragon has a small shop located at Wright plaza. If inworld, you can read this very Blog by enabling media. You can enjoy the tunes from Pulse Radio as well.


If you visit the Red Dragon Nite Club region, and like the build, you can now vote for the region again. We reinstated the tool from Oliveira on the region. Other regions using this voting system inworld are listed on his website here. Some have comments, pictures and/or video available.

You can obtain this voting system for you own regions, by searching the map for Sandbox Oliveira 48 in OSgrid. Be sure to check the surrounding regions for other nice goodies, has some nice builds and shops,and these regions tend to be "always online". Also when in need for Land, you can contact Fernando Oliveira inworld or though his webpage.

Also a lot of newly released initiatives found their way to my mailbox this week, such as Kitely's marketplace (Click here) , for people looking to sell/ buy virtual creations,  and unity's Extreme Reality SDK which promises to turn your webpage into a 3Dworld. So many cool things to explore, and so little time.....

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.