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Jokaydia’s New Outpost

11 October 2009

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I am pleased to see that  the community of Jokaydia have embraced and developed a new outpost on Reaction Grid, which is run on the OpenSimulator platform. Jo Kay reports on her blog that the community of educators will be meeting up…

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Making sculpted chair for secondlife part 2

23 August 2009

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Following on from part 1, in this episode we finish modeling our chair, then bake the sculptmap, texture and preview them in opensim. Watch it below or watch it on youtube. Visit Archive.org and download the Ogg video or Avi. Download Making sculpted…

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Makehuman and Blender using Ubuntu Hardy

26 August 2008

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Makehuman Wikipedia article: MakeHuman is a software application that generates 3D humanoids; similar to Poser or DAZ Studio. It is written in C++ and Aqsis is necessary to produce a render. The MakeHuman team work towards correctness both in programming (using…

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Open source scripts in Second Life

18 August 2008

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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 .…

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SL Grids Podcast – Adam / Teravus / ZATZAi

19 May 2008

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source. 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. powered by…

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Open source tools in Secondlife – Builders Buddy

18 May 2008

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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…

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Open source tools in Secondlife – Meta Presenter

13 May 2008

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I’ve been thinking about useful tools for educators in secondlife. Meta Presenter is a simple, really easy to use tool for giving presentations. Its free and open source. Watch my Meta Presenter demo video on Youtube.

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Sculpted prims in Opensim more advanced than SL

13 May 2008

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Sculptie Physics on OpenSim from Dahlia Trimble on Vimeo. Source Teravus was teaching me about the internals of the meshing for physics on opensim when the topic came up about making a mesh out of a sculpted prim. I mentioned I would like to…

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