If it were up to me, we'd find something more appealing than a hippo for the mascot. The inheritance of anything from Second Life to me is pretty distasteful.<div><br></div><div>Not likely to be a popular opinion so I don't expect much to come of it, but my 0.02$US anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(I mean seriously, a fat, sluggish river-dwelling herbivore that is so close to the next level down on the food chain that the carp literally follow it around to eat as it defecates -- why was that ever a mascot for anything in the first place?)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com">diva@metaverseink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yes, same here.<br>
But since we are talking about the famous Hippos that everybody knows and uses, I took this opportunity to try to find out if anyone here knows anything about their origin. Are these nebadon's?<div><div></div><div class="h5">
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Marck wrote:<br>
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Well, I found not any license information for the Baby and Mother Hippo that I used as a base. In fact, I got them from your mega-region "Diva's Office"; but I have seen them with full permissions and free to copy at various places in OSgrid, too. I assumed that they are free to use. As long as there are no restrictions on those hippos, the hippo avatar as a derivative work is in the public domain.<br>
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<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Super cute!<br>
Is this really public domain?<br>
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Ben Faust wrote:<br>
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Great job! I'm going to use it for our Neutral avatar. Thanks!<br>
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On 8/26/2010 11:12 AM, Marck wrote:<br>
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Hello Ai,<br>
<br>
Your idea of using a hippo as a starter avatar is great. I took the<br>
freely available Baby Hippo and made an avatar from it. See<br>
<a href="http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705" target="_blank">http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705</a>.<br>
<br>
Does this meet your notion for such an avatar?<br>
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Marck<br>
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Ai Austin wrote:<br>
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Anyone feel up to creating a starter avatar that looks like a hippo<br>
that<br>
can be distributed as an IAR? It would be a great addition to allow a<br>
male, female and "neutral" avatar as starters and follow the<br>
OpenSimulator logo style with its 3 "users" on it.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics" target="_blank">http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics</a><br>
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