Re: Navigation versus immersion
hehe interesting read of course games like wow (although its actually pretty old now) made people spend more time playing by making it harder for people to walk around. There is a new breed of game...
View ArticleRe: SimLife3D
We use dedicated, high performance servers optimized for OpenSim to offer our hosting services. These professional servers with Intel Quad-Core processors and redundant data storage (RAID) are located...
View ArticleRe: SimLife3D
That's interesting. And here we keep hearing how "the cloud" will make VWs better and more viable.
View ArticleRe: SimLife3D
That suggestion that Cloud Computing is unsuitable for Virtual Worlds such as OpenSim needs some justification or qualification. I haven't seen any stress test results, but in my experience Kitely...
View ArticleRe: Fun, surprises and crowds can increase visits
This is excellent advice - takes notes :D
View ArticleRe: Fun, surprises and crowds can increase visits
I think for the purposes of this discussion even three or four people would count as a "crowd" -- especially considering that most welcome regions have fewer people than that.
View ArticleRe: Vendors slow to offer on-demand hosting
I wanted to leave a suggestion in kitely's forum but I dont know how. So here it is. Regarding the teleport from one region to another. It says need to wait for the region to be waken up. Some people...
View ArticleRe: Vendors slow to offer on-demand hosting
Thank you for the suggestion Alex. You can leave suggestions in our support forum by clicking the "share an idea" tab then adding your suggestion in the text box and pressing the Continue button. See:...
View ArticleRe: 3Di Cloud starts at $10 per month
> “Land area and objects are basically unlimited, since they run on the client" I think this is very significant. The server-focused model of Second Life and OpenSim just makes things very expensive...
View ArticleRe: 3Di Cloud starts at $10 per month
@kripken:disqus I looked at the code and it dose appear to be on the track we would want to go for getting Opensim regions in a browser without a plugin. The shooter app you have been working on looks...
View ArticleRe: How to make megaregion terrains
Here's how I did this in Linux, editing images the geeky way with the command line: http://keygruin-osgrid.blogspo...
View ArticleRe: How to become a freelance tech journalist
I got the idea for this post from this Kickstarter project, a book about how to become a video game journalist: http://www.kickstarter.com/pro... Video game journalism is a tough field to break into --...
View ArticleRe: How to become a freelance tech journalist
5 cents a word!?! *stomps off to subQ's house* i get paid in burritos, so i guess i am doing okay =) nice article and the five year guideline is highly appropriate in writing and many endeavors! =)
View ArticleRe: How to make megaregion terrains
funny, many people don't like creating terrains with the in-world tools - me, i absolutely love it and it is easily my favourite task maybe because my undergrad work was Geology but i really, really...
View ArticleRe: How to make megaregion terrains
The Viewers can only load a RAW file and are unable to process other file formats.The console "terrain load" & "terrain load-tile" supports numerous formats as is shown in the console help screen....
View ArticleRe: How to become a freelance tech journalist
Awesome article! I doubt if anyone would pay me peanuts let alone money for some writing. I'm rather too quirky and erratic in style :/
View ArticleRe: How to become a freelance tech journalist
A quirky style could actually help in setting you apart from other writers. Erratic is a bigger problem -- publications come out on a set schedule, and they need to be able to count on you to deliver...
View ArticleRe: 3Di Cloud starts at $10 per month
This approach isn't OpenSim compatible I am afraid - it has a different structure for the contents of regions (no prims - instead it uses an octree of modified cubes), different networking protocol,...
View ArticleRe: Ten ways to gamify your grid
Gamification is great way to add fun to a grid, or even just an event. The list is a great list of game elements, but Gamification is much more than just adding in game elements to something. A major...
View Article