Helping the biggest Selea Core collection become even bigger

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:31:58 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Found another huge Selea Core collection and had to organise mine in a spreadsheet; CW: long (1,171 characters)

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OpenSim Virtual shopping

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:13:01 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@G (Nap God) I could explain it to you. But that explanation would lead to a massive "wall of text" that'd easily justifiy its reader-side-"long post"-content-warning-triggering hashtags without having a Mastodon-style "long post" content warning.

There'd be such a whole lot to explain.

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:04:07 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@G (Nap God)

I did a little bit of searching and I discovered the sim you’re in is a open source (fork?) of Second Life which is really cool…I’m definitely checking it out.

Not a fork. Second Life is still closed-source server-side.

It was a case of Second Life open-sourcing its official viewer in 2006. Thus, the API lay open. Third-party viewers were developed against that API. And then someone had the idea to develop a Second Life-like server application against the API from the other side.

I've written an article about OpenSim, by the way.

But what are the cubes?

One quite particular feature of both Second Life and OpenSim is that you can store any and all kinds of in-world content in objects. This can be used for various things, for example, you can put scripts into doors to animate them, or you can build teleporters by putting a teleport script into an object, or you can build sound emitters that way.

But this can also be used to sell content to avatars, be it for money, be it for free. You put that content into a box, decorate the box and set the box up so that clicking it either gives you the box including contents or an inventory folder with the contents inside. Or you configure the box so that avatars can copy the box into their inventories.

This way, avatars can pick up more than one item at once. It's one thing to pick 16 Christmas wreaths from a wall one by one, but it's another to get a box with all 16 inside it.

Selea Core made a whole lot of sim decoration boxes many years ago. Coincidentally, most of them are actually cubes.

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