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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Welcome to the extended virtual family
Lisa :)<br>
<br>
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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgrid.org/">http://www.osgrid.org/</a>). 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 ;)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
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Good luck with your endeavors and I hope to see you around the
metaverse.<br>
<br>
- core<br>
<br>
On 8/19/2012 1:31 PM, Sarge Misfit wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAPk7T4DFSPCf68z+Beh0ye4csVV=hSfGutHfBKVTiEZA2pcPvw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi Lisa, and welcome to the MetaVerse.<br>
<br>
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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/">http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/</a>
Maria has a lot of resources listed in various articles. Ener Hax
at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://iliveisl.com/">http://iliveisl.com/</a>
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, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://excelsior-station.wikidot.com/">Excelsior Station</a>,
I have lists of bloggers, content providers and more, though they
are not comprehensive. Its just a place to start.<br>
<br>
And you can pretty well count on others responding with help, too.<br>
<br>
Good luck<br>
<br>
Sarge<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Lisa
Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lisa.p.evans@gmail.com" target="_blank">lisa.p.evans@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I'm putting together a proposal for this educational portal
run by the ABC here in Australia:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.abc.net.au/learn/proposals.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/learn/proposals.htm</a><br>
<br>
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). <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Lisa Evans<br>
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