[Opensim-users] transitioning assets from Second Life to OpenSim

[Paul Fishwick]

Robert
  The state of the art, as it were, seems to be some code that exists in the
Periscope extension of Simian (which is related to the libomv project). In
that code, apparently, there is code that saves/loads using OAR.  There
was also some discussion suggesting that the save/load OAR feature might
be in the 0.7.0 release of libomv.
-paul

Robert Klein wrote:
> I have several friends in SL who each have many full project builds and want
> to do this exact same thing. Many of their builds contain all sorts of
> buildings and objects they purchased or built themselves and trying to move
> these projects has been a scary proposition to say the least. Trying to
> decide where to even begin has kept most of them in SL. They are waiting for
> an "easy solution" to just pack and unpack their regions. This might be a
> good topic to start on the OpenSimulator wiki if it hasn't already. Here in
> America we have moving companies like Global Van Lines, you call them and
> they come pack your house up in their truck, drive to your new place and
> unpack it. Might be a good business opportunity for moving out of SL.
>
> -Robert
>
>
> Tristan-2 wrote:
>   
>> You could backup most of the things (excluding no-perm scripts) using a
>> lib
>> SL bot. After that you could just slightly modify it so it would connect
>> to
>> your custom OpenSim region. It would be best to ask owner permission
>> first.
>> If you can get rights from the owners, SecondInventory would be the
>> simplest
>> way. If you are a capable programmer, I'm sure you could make a tool using
>> lib-secondlife to backup a region in something similar to oar format.
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> We are in the early planning stages of re-creating our island from
>>> Second Life
>>> in OpenSim and wondered if others out there had suggestions regarding
>>> transitioning
>>> strategies. My understanding is that for Second Inventory
>>> to work correctly one must either be the creator of the object to move to
>>> OpenSim or one must have all 3 next owner permissions. If that is the
>>> case, for
>>> objects that we did not create, our plan is to ask each creator if they
>>> are willing
>>> to sell all 3 rights (modify/copy/give-away) on their objects for some
>>> reasonable
>>> fee. It is either that or having to recreate each bought object
>>> ourselves since I am
>>> not aware of a "market bridge" between SL and OpenSim. Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -paul
>>>
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>> ~Tristan
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Paul Fishwick, PhD
Professor and Director, Digital Arts and Sciences Programs
University of Florida
Computer & Information Science and Eng. Dept.
Bldg. CSE, Room 301
P.O. Box 116120
Gainesville, FL 32611
Email: fishwick at cise.ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 392-1414
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