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Mike Joyce
V,
As I have said before, your work is a great inspiration to me.
I would love to learn more about how you have set up your sim.
I am currently working on a Standalone sim, using Diva Distribution and running it on a USB flash drive (for portability). My desire is have it basically private for my use and open it up using the Hypergrid when I want visitors. This is still a work in progress and my Hypergrid access is vaguely working. My goal is to create several Standalone Sims and purpose each one for different reasons. Perhaps have one as a Formal meeting sim, another as an experimental sandbox sim or others as various “themed” sims. I know I could accomplish something like this via OAR files, but swapping USB flash drives appeals to my sense of simplicity. I also have just enough knowledge to know I don’t really know very much.
Do you have any insights as to how far you can push the amounts of prims on the sim? How much disc space, ram etc have your required?
I look forward to your blog every day. Your discussions are very illuminating.
All the Best
Mike
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V
Wow, that went fast. Thanks for the comment, Mike. I’ll think about writing some tutorial on how to set up your standalone; there are just so many different configuration options that it’s very difficult to cover them all. For one, I’m on a Mac, which might make things useless for PC users, and I’m using mysql, which might not be useful for anyone using SQLite, which comes as standard with the opensim installation. Maybe it’s best I’ll just give an insight into my personal configuration. Again, thanks for the input.
(Edit: To give a short answer to your questions: I’m running a standalone with 21 regions on my computer, which is a Power Mac Dual Quad 2.8 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. All in all I’m probably using around 3.000 prims and 100 scripts (just simple ones like door scripts and such). From what I’ve seen, OpenSim allocates memory automatically, so after startup and with just me on the sim it uses about 170 MB of ram and ca. 1 GB of disk space for the database. I’ve got it hypergrid enabled and set up several hypergrid locations as permanents on the map, for easy access.)
(Edit edit: If you want to create several standalones for different purposes, it’s not sufficient to have several OpenSim installations; you will also need to have a different database for each, if they’re supposed to be completely independent. If you just want to have different configuration options, you can easily create a different MyWorld.ini file for each and just use the one you currently need by putting it into the config-include folder. If you don’t even want to have different settings, but just different places for different purposes, you can create several regions and put them on coordinates that are a little distant from each other (about 100 coordinates on the map or so) and create them accordingly. Personally, I’d prefer the last approach, as it makes for the least amount of frustration and complication.)
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David Seikel
I guess my wishlist item is for a way to contact you, having failed to find a “contact us” button anywhere on your site. lol
But anyway …
I’m an open source developer from way back. I’d like to set up a sim on an existing OpenSim grid that I fill with open source goodies for the grid residents to enjoy. Naturally the creators will be credited with their work, and links to relevant web pages provided. All licensing terms will be respected.
You have a lot of very nice stuff here under a Creative Commons license that I would love to include. I have noticed that some of our residents have already started to import some of your stuff. I’d like to add your stuff to this sim to make it more obvious where it’s coming from.
Let me know what you think, and we can discuss details.
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V
Hi David,
I didn’t include any contact form here because we’re both somewhat busy and I’m especially known for not replying in a timely manner, so comments help put some pressure on myself. On top of that, they show questions and answers for everyone, hopefully helping people who have the same question as you. If anyone desperately needed to contact us, we’re on twitter and plurk and we’ve got our IRC channel.
Regarding the licenses: I actually wanted to keep things as simple as possible, since I’m more than fed up with the endless discussions about “intellectual property”, DRM, piracy, etc. So I settled for CC-by, which is the least restrictive of the CC licenses – and should be compatible with other floss licenses such as GPL. The rule is: You can use everything, for any purpose (unless that purpose is illegal in itself, of course) without asking me. Heck, you could even sell them, if you wanted. The only thing to keep in mind is to include a reference about where you got them from when you pass them on to others. http://tgib.co.uk/ would be sufficient for that. So please, feel free to do whatever you want to do with it, I’m happy when everyone just goes ahead and uses what I make. That’s what it’s there for, as far as I’m concerned.
Greetings
V
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V
\o/ I added a contact form. And for those wanting to post something publicly, I included a Q&A module.
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Jillian2000 Quintessa ((IW Resident)
I would just love to have a pair of high tops with different colored laces.
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David Seikel
Think it might be better to just add a hypergrid link to one of your sims, but so far have not found one that works.
Do you have up to date hypergrid details for the latest opensim stable version?
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