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

[Teravus Ovares]

Remember to consult your lawyer and read the TOS before taking any
content out of SecondLife. Technically feasable and legal are two
different things.

Regards

Teravus

On 5/5/09, Tristan <tristan.wattswillis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking, It would be awesome if one of the custom viewers
> such as RealXtend or Hippo could include an option in the viewer to
> download object of which you have full rights to. It may not be the
> best solution but it is on the right path.
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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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