[Opensim-users] Some questions about recreating history in OpenSim

Lisa Evans lisa.p.evans at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 01:49:32 UTC 2012


Thanks for the warm welcome :). I will check out the Educators list as well.


On 08/20/2012 06:34 AM, core wrote:
> Welcome to the extended virtual family Lisa :)
>
> My first suggestion (if you haven't already done so) is to sign up 
> with an OpenSim grid and begin exploring.  My personal recommendation 
> would be OSGrid (http://www.osgrid.org/). It's the largest and oldest 
> and has a wide variety of established regions to visit.  It's also the 
> main testing grid for OpenSim users and developers so pretty much 
> anyone who knows anything about OS is there at one time or another.  
> There are many helpful people around who can give you advice and help 
> get you started.  Ther are also tons of freebies and building tools 
> there too ;)
>
> Sarge's links are also a great place to start.  Excelsior Station and 
> Enclave Harbour are two of the most ambitious and impressive 
> undertakings in OpenSim at the moment.  Good examples of just how far 
> you can take your ideas and apply them effectively.
>
> There is also a sister mailing list to this one aimed at educators 
> which is populated by many of the same users here. The info:
> Education mailing list
> Education at list.opensim-edu.org
> http://list.opensim-edu.org/listinfo.cgi/education-opensim-edu.org
> Good luck with your endeavors and I hope to see you around the metaverse.
>
> - core
>
> On 8/19/2012 1:31 PM, Sarge Misfit wrote:
>> Hi Lisa, and welcome to the MetaVerse.
>>
>> While my own tastes run to future tech sci-fi, I can tell you that 
>> there are others who have and are building historical and 
>> geographical recreations. Research is going to be your biggest job 
>> right now. And there are lots of resources. Check out HyperGrid 
>> Business http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/ Maria has a lot of 
>> resources listed in various articles. Ener Hax at 
>> http://iliveisl.com/ is building Enclave Harbour which will be used 
>> to conduct virtual field trips for students. She blogs daily on a 
>> wide variety of things. On my site, Excelsior Station 
>> <http://excelsior-station.wikidot.com/>, I have lists of bloggers, 
>> content providers and more, though they are not comprehensive. Its 
>> just a place to start.
>>
>> And you can pretty well count on others responding with help, too.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Sarge
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Lisa Evans <lisa.p.evans at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:lisa.p.evans at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I'm very new to OpenSim and just signed up to this list to ask a
>>     few questions. Sorry if I come across as a bit of a newbie,
>>     although I've been studying OS for a few days and I have my own
>>     standalone grid up and running at home.
>>
>>     I'm putting together a proposal for this educational portal run
>>     by the ABC here in Australia:
>>
>>     http://www.abc.net.au/learn/proposals.htm
>>
>>     My project is all about teaching history, the idea being that
>>     students and history classes could put together simple sims
>>     telling stories about the history of their own local area,
>>     linking them up with videos, photos, essays, etc (which you could
>>     hopefully launch from within the sim). Their sims would all be
>>     linked up in a hypergrid, so students from all over Australia
>>     (later maybe the world) could get into a virtual time machine and
>>     visit different places at different times, to see what was
>>     happening. Students would be able to chat with each other and
>>     show each other around their creations. Hopefully the act of
>>     collaborative world building would engage them in learning about
>>     history, but I would want them focussed on just telling small
>>     stories, involving a small number of characters (which would be
>>     created as NPCs if that's possible, with simple, looping
>>     animations if not more complex behaviour) and buildings, objects,
>>     etc. (I have ideas about how to source lots of 3D content, which
>>     I need to explore more).
>>
>>     I'm sure none of this is an original idea, but it seems like a
>>     good opportunity to put an idea like this forward. I just was
>>     wondering if anyone could tell me whether it would work in
>>     OpenSim or if there are some big barriers to creating something
>>     like this.
>>
>>     My main issue right now is trying to work out how you create sims
>>     that represent not only a region in space but also a period in
>>     time. I've been thinking that I would have a grid that contains
>>     regions in which only stories from, say, 1950 to 2000 were
>>     created. Then another grid would represent the same real world
>>     area, but contain stories from 1900-1950. The further you go back
>>     in time, the longer the time intervals would get, along an
>>     approximately logarithmic scale, so if you were telling stories
>>     about the dinosaurs one grid would represent the entire Jurassic
>>     era, for example.
>>
>>     Would this be the right way to go? I've been reading about
>>     regions and grids and hypergrids but I'm pretty sure there's a
>>     lot I don't understand.
>>
>>     My own background is that I've been working in 3D animation for
>>     film, TV and games for the past decade, as a 3D all rounder and a
>>     technical artist. I've worked on one big MMO for three years that
>>     was never released. So I know about 3D modeling, animation,
>>     worldbuilding, etc. but I've never spent much time around Second
>>     Life or OpenSim, so a lot of this is new to me.
>>
>>     Thanks for any help!
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Lisa Evans
>>
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