Setting Up Mega-Regions
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There are still some outstanding issues being addressed by the Dev team. If you wish to incorporate your existing regions into a MegaRegion, make OARS and do Full Backups of everything on the current regions. Restoring OAR will deposit the restored region on the most South West Corner ONLY. This is being worked out at the time of this writting. (more information needs to be put in this area...)
Layout Diagram
Here is a Diagram of Possible Configurations. This is not all inclusive but is a good example of layout for the regions.
SPECIAL NOTE: Most Viewers still suffer the 4096 Teleport Bug where people cannot teleport more than 4K regions away. OSGrid is centered @ 10000 10000. Some Viewers, such as MeerKat & Imprudence have addressed this recently, others will likely follow suit. This bug applies to HyperGrided regions as well as Non-Hypergrid regions.
Steps
Step 1:
FRESH Installation:
This assumes you have a NEW OpenSim installation with a Clean (empty) Database.
- Modify the OpenSim.ini and change CombineContiguousRegions=false to CombineContiguousRegions=true. This is located at the top of the OpenSim.ini under the ## REGIONS Section.
- Proceed to Step 2 and make sure that your bin\regions\RegionConfig.ini is configured according to the specification for MegaRegion
- Start your OpenSim Instance & there you have it.
EXISTING Regions Being Converted:
Warning! If your regions have existing content, joining them may be dangerous -- you risk losing content.
Please follow the following steps if your regions have content:
OARS - OpenSim Archives
This has worked for me (Zonja) - your mileage may vary.
- Make a backup of your database!
- Make an OAR for EACH REGION which you intend integrate into a Mega-Region. In Console Type the following commands (Highlighted in BOLD): change region RegionName next save oar RegionName.tar.gz NB: save oar can be pathed to another directory such as save oar c:\mybackups\RegionName.oar
- Set "CombineContiguousRegions=true", in OpenSim.ini.
- Verify your bin\regions\RegionConfig.ini is configured according to the specification for MegaRegion as shown in Step 2
- start Opensim. You'll see a lot of error messages -- ignore them.
- Wait till Console Activity Stops, then in Console Type: fix-phantoms
- Wait till this process completes, it can take several minutes for the backup thread to store everything
- When the Console Activity Stops, then in Console Type: backup (This will persist the data into the Database again as a precaution)
- Restart Opensim, and check that all the objects are in their right places.
Please refer to this post from Diva for more information
Step 2: bin\regions\RegionConfig.ini
The Example Provided here is for a 3x3, 9 Simulator Mega-Region. Ensure that you fill in the Correct Information in all the required fields. Order your regions from South-West to North-East in your bin\regions\RegionsConfig.ini
; 9 Simulator 3x3 Mega-Region Example ; Supply a unique UUID for each region ; Unique InternalPort for Each Region ; Ensure you put your MasterAvatar UUID ; ;************************************************ [RegionName_SW] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5000,5000 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9001 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ;************************************************ [RegionName_W] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5000,5001 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9002 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ;************************************************ [RegionName_NW] RegionUUID = 84b41485-6884-412d-b4a2-2f6941559924 Location = 5000,5002 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9003 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************ [RegionName_S] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5001,5000 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9004 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************ [RegionName_Centre] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5001,5001 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9005 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ;************************************************ [RegionName_N] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5001,5002 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9006 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************ ; [RegionName_SE] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5002,5000 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9007 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************ [RegionName_E] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5002,5001 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9008 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************ [RegionName_NE] RegionUUID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Location = 5002,5002 InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0 InternalPort = 9009 AllowAlternatePorts = False ExternalHostName = YourIP_DNSname ; ;NonphysicalPrimMax = 0 ;PhysicalPrimMax = 0 ClampPrimSize = False ;MaxPrims = 15000 ; ;ScopeID = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ; ;************************************************