Sunday 23 November 2008

A great day, comrades: we sim into history.

As I was subject to a fair amount of unclaimed time this weekend, I took on a new project: running an OpenSimulator environment at home.

Using a somewhat-recent personal computer running Windows (a choice of necessity, not preference, I assure you), I successfully installed and configured diverse and arcane files.

Then, using the better parts of my talents (the creative ones, as opposed to technical), I designed and placed 4 sims on my grid.

Photographic proof is as follows:

Fig. 1: in which I tolerate the Windows interface.


Fig. 2: in which I claim these sims in the name of Caledon, ex patria.


The fact that I can log in to my grid from my laptop and play with 4 sims, each with 45000 available prims, is awesome, as in full-of-awe. (Compare the Russian word грозныи, grozny.)

The area is desolate, though, and bereft of state channel chatter, or any friends visiting -- a definite shortcoming.

A full discussion of materials and methods for this experiment will be available upon request.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is pretty cool! I hope in time LL's influence can be lessened. Imagine if all the internet's servers were under the control of one company- not so good.

These virtual worlds should be moving to a more open-source and indy-friendly footing with a commom protocol that we may travel and share from one to another, without being under the control of a parent company.