OneHundred

100 what ? Posts on this Blog. This is the 100th post in Red Dragon Club's Blog.Wohoo !!

In the past 3 years we gathered a lot of information on OSgrid, and the various tools you can use to enhance the daily virtual life, and create content for the metaverse. With 21K views, the blog remains an underground place you have to stumble about. Do not underestimate the content on this page though. Many questions i ran into in my 8 year metaverse travels have their solutions hidden in the posts and links here. 

The next logical upgrade to this Blog should be a gallery, and direct downloads, but since a lot of things can be already found in the link pages, and it being a lot of work to categorise and index them, i don't have a lot of incentive to start building pages for it. So the blog will be maintained and updated monthly as it has been in the past years. 

At Red Dragon Regions about 80 teleporters have been placed on strategic places, so you can teleport around to places on the regions you would else likely miss, due to the builds being so huge. Since i'm slowly running against the boundaries of what this machine can handle, the V8 builds are up less often. ( if all 18 regions are up, there is too little RAM left to decently run a viewer and browser).

I have had some requests to start hosting party's again, but before i can, i will have to build a new island, with a smaller club and less prims. The main region has simply got too many prims for people to be able to party hard. It will lag your pants off if you start running animations with 10+ people i recon.  This will however not stop me from building until at least 45K prims there. Just because I can.

I hope you enjoy this Blog. If it is to any use to you, feel free to subscribe. If you don't feel like subscribing, you can also choose to add me to your G+ circles or follow Red_dragon_club on twitter. It will update you when i release any brain farts on this blog.  So much for this yadayada topic, i'm going to pop into OSG to find at what time the Primwords game starts today.

Halloween part II

If you missed out on the OSG halloween party, you still have a chance to exhibit your most spooky outfit at upcoming D&J's Halloween themed friday party.

The region is Close Encounter, and  Doro & Jay will be your host and DJ. Mind that for the occasion you will need to be costumed. People that walk in with their "regular" avatars will have their souls eaten, and have to stay and cleanup the prims and do the dishes when the party has ended...  Well, maybe not, but the request is to wear a custom avatar for the occasion, and contribute to the atmosphere of the party. Mind the time displayed is GMT.

Unfortunately all pictures I shot at the OSG party are saved in inventory ( have to export,  open TGA, convert to JPG, normalise, resize etc. before i can upload, not going to happen anytime soon ) and the video i shot has an IM window open, so hopefully others have shot some footage. I'll dig through OSG gallery and G+  for them later and update this topic with links if i find any.

At Red Dragon Club X region a new furniture store & art gallery opened, by RedVerse Waspe. If you look for custom prim furniture or abstract art, you might want to pop by and visit here. All his work is available full perm and free to copy. You can find it in the main building, 3rd floor, right wing. Teleporters will be placed at the entrance to the building somewhere after the regions are updated with the latest release of OSG.

Halloween Dance 2013 in OSgrid

The annual halloween party OSgrid throws was just announced on OSg forums Halloween Dance for 2013!!
Region : All Hallows Plaza
Date  : Saturday the 26th of october
Time: 19:30 UTC - 7:30pm GMT - 12:30 pm PDT


Any people that would like to perform as a guest DJ can reply on the forum topic or contact Dan Banner inworld for the schedule. Last years party was a big success, pictures of it can be found at  OSG's Halloween Gallery . There is still plenty of time left to gather your spooky outfit and free time in your tight building schedules as this is one of those party's  you don't want to miss. LBSA plaza already transformed to a spooky graveyard like gloomy place. We will put up some halloween stuff only on Red Dragon club X region. (too much cleaning afterwards if we put it everywhere)  Happy hunting the grid for all the cool Halloween treats, and hope to see all you zombies at the party !

If you want to party Tonight (13-10-2013) :
Sunday night live in The Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSGrid at 2pm PST 10pm GMT we feature Trulie Ellen live from her Nashville studio playing her all original country-punk / folk-noir ballads followed by DJ Stiofain X

Join in at :
hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime%20Club%20Belfast/16/105/33
hop within osgrid
hop://login.osgrid.org/Maritime%20Club%20Belfast/15/101/30

Version 0.8

All  Red Dragon Regions have been updated to version 0.8.0 of Opensimulator. If you are still running your regions on a 0.7.x build, my advice is to upgrade immediately. We have setup all ini files from scratch as we were running a pretty dated configuration. The performance increase is noticeable. All servers and regions are tested and working fine. This week we will test some of the opensim.ini options, like the ability to see 3 regions further rather than 1. I don't know if and how this will work, because of the 34K prims on a single region, but we will find out soon enough.

All Red Dragon Regions have also been moved to a new domain, simulator.madfoxx.net
This as my 10 year old Madfoxx.kicks-ass.net DynDNS account caught an error ( Dyn changed a security certificate which my firewall didn't trust, so it terminated the connection). Since the account was grandfathered from Dyns "free" service, it expired as i "forgot" to login and reactivate it within a month. The client in my firewall normally did this automatically and i didn't notice it going down due to the certificate issue
Anyways, no more free DNS, just a FQDN from now on. Also we moved some regions to their own simulator, to offload the Red Dragon Nite Club and Red Dragon Club X regions, and re-mapped all the port assignments.

I''m also working on a shiny new linux box, and hope to get a Diva standalone running on that machine, which can be on 24/7. Likely it will launch somewhere next year. On that server, we will possibly offer some space for Residents to live on. If you are interested in a plot, feel free to contact Foxx Bode inworld.

As i was browsing through my popular search terms in here, i find people looking for private parts on OSgrid. Good one, as you don't get these at the welcome center.....  The freebie HQ on wright plaza has a ton of  free stuff and shops, but due to its G rating, no private parts are allowed there. So for the cool scripted goodies, you will really need to make some friends and ask around. If you look for private parts in OSgrid, a good place to start is by asking around at LBSA plaza. ( and yes, people WILL have an opinion on that ). But no worries, don't feel ashame. we all came here as Ruth, so we know your feeling. Even if you never use it, you still pack one.

 -- Update :( I asked around at LBSA ) : some very helpful people notified me that you can find PG rated items and the appropriate attachments at  Susukino Region ( find it on map). Mind these are Adult regions etc.
NB: * ( Also, you can quit sending me your private parts, i'm good.....Really....Stop it.... unless you built it yourself and its some awesome scripted mesh one, of which i need to own a copy, else please no more....)* .