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Open source scripts in Second Life

Aug 18th, 2008 | By Cath | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Tutorials, Video, secondlife, virtual world

Chris has found a couple of scripts which may be useful to educators and builders in Second Life.
The Linked Prim Animator Lite (LPAL) is a set of open source scripts which enable you to animate linked objects and attachments . LPAL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of [...]



SL Grids Podcast - Adam / Teravus / ZATZAi

May 19th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Podcast, secondlife, virtual world

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Adam Zaius, Teravus Ousley, and ZATZAi discuss the future of the Second Life Grids. With a focus on third party grids like OpenSim, comparing past steps and future plans, capabilities and caveats of the Linden and OpenSim based grids.
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Open source tools in Secondlife - Builders Buddy

May 18th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Education, Software, Tutorials, Video, secondlife, virtual world

I’ve been thinking about what other useful tools I can introduce to educators in secondlife. Builders Buddy is useful for people interested in building. I put together a small package with a tutorial, you can get a copy of builders buddy in sl. Watch the Builders Buddy video on youtube to see what it is. [...]



Opensim demo running on a stick

May 8th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Software, secondlife, virtual world

I made a video of what Ive been up to with Opensim, you can watch Opensim Gnutopia demo on youtube or download Opensim demo.

Here’s some images from my Opensim aka Gnutopia.[Show as slideshow]

I used the following software packages to set up my Opensim on windows.

Webserver On Stick - for apache,php,mysql. I included the webserver [...]



Virtual Worlds, Croquet, Secondlife, Opensim

Apr 26th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Games, Software, Video, secondlife, virtual world

I’ve been exploring virtual worlds again, if you havent looked at Croquet in a while, its time that you did, there’s a really nice video on the site that shows off some of its features. The only teacher I know working with Squeak in Australia is Bill Kerr. I think some of his kids may [...]



Second Life viewer available under GNU GPL

Jan 15th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software, secondlife, virtual world

The Second Life Viewer source code has been released under the GNU General Public License, the most well known and widely used [[Free_software]] License. Read the press release. I haven’t had a really close look at the code, at a glance it looks like you would have to install some non-free software to build [...]