What have I been doing in OpenSimulator

i'll make my own universe with blackjack and hookers 2025, Jan 11 -- Last updated 2025, Aug 24

An anthropomorphic hippo avatar (mine) sits at a wood picnic table surrounded by ocean and some very nice, very aliased trees. Location: "Complejo Disco" in OSgrid;.

Between 2025, Apr 18 and now the most significant thing I've done is switch home grid to OSgrid, as I normally spend most of my time there anyways. I sometimes am lucky and catch text conversations between people in Lbsa Plaza while I'm idling there like the freak I am.

OSGrid are one of the old timers, apparently, having been around since 2007 and initially being a test grid for OpenSimulator server software. They have a system where users can host regions within the OSgrid grid using a specially configured OS server which they provide. I don't think I would get this going soon as i share 'net access with several other housemates and the person who owns the router is wary of my...antics.

For all I know OpenSimulator itself is a server software that basically replicates Second Life via open-source tech, and seems to indeed add "blackjack and hookers" on top of that, most notably the hypergrid system which allows many smaller grids to be linked into one virtual Very Big GridTM.

I've never used Meta Horizons, etc. but in comparison I feel strongly that some kind of open standard would win out over anything gabizilionaires come up with, even if not the aging OpenSimulator. I am not sure how, but looking at the Web I think this would be due to, among other things of course, no central "dictator" authority stopping anyone from just making things that work with the system for gratis. man i sound stupid. Homogenization? Resistant against. Moderation? Out the window.....

I use Cool VL Viewer as my main OS viewer.

Problems setting up the server software

It seems that the OpenSimulator server software is architecture-agnostic, which is a godsend for me and my weird-ass ARM64 PC. However, .net or whatever has problems finding sqlite3, the database that the software uses. (For what? I don't know that now.) Again, I had to manualy find the right library and link it to the right spot.

To do this in Debian GNU/Linux or similar would be something along the lines of "find the shared library via dpkg -L libsqlite3-0 | grep so and link it into [opensim parent folder]/bin".

It also seems that you'd need to run dos2unix on [opensim parent folder]/bin/opensim.sh, the actual file you'll need to run to start the server, for it to even be read correctly by Bash. Something about different types of newline between Windows and *nix systems.

Conclusion: I now have a running local OS server to do crap in. Again, I can't open it up to the general internet now, which is disapointing.

If I connect Bluetooth headphones and there's no sound...

For CVLV users or possibly anyone using a Snowglobe-derivative viewer, select Advanced -> Media -> Restart audio engine. Possibly the only useful piece of info I gleaned when compiling these idiot notes.

Are you still doing stuff with Worlds.com?

Maybe one day. However, it's clear the central servers was not returning, meaning the social aspect of Worlds is lost forever. If I were to do anything I'd want to port the default Worlds worlds into an OpenSimulator grid. I don't know if I'd actually get arround to this as the required tool's instructions are just "put the thing in the thing".....uh, okay? Where is /net/worlds/scape????

In case you are wondering where I'd even find these worlds they happen to come prepackaged with later versions of the Worldsplayer software. Based on some educated guesswork anything above version 1900 should do this.