I now have two sims. One my tiny under development grid, and I just returned to OsGrid with a sim. So now I have a home there again too. Yay. Now to link them through the HyperGrid sometime this week.

I’ve been turning my tricks to make my grid happening. I have a live grid. I was spoiled by OsGrid somewhat though. Sure, I have the basics back for a region (even restored my old oar), and have been hyper-griding out some places. I found that after the latest griefing attacks last month, my sad little personal hyper-gates, and my hyper-hat rarely  work anymore (its ok). I really really miss my OSgrid region. This has been an excuse to put it back up. If you don’t have a “god home” on OsGrid, then you get to be a second rate citizen at best there. I have some ideas to make hyper-grid fun, but have decided OsGrid will be a part of it. So that’s the start of my “grid” a place in OsGrid, and a place on a hyper-grided stand-alone on the cloud. Much to do building just those.

I have limited play time, so I want to finish one thing before I start another. So what did I do in the spirit of that?. I logged into OsGrid and popped into the Littlefield Adult Sim. Why? I thought I might find a Pony-Girl animation. I thought it would be a quick way to finish a project (and not have to make crawl animations myself) I have tons of animations, no crawl of any kind. No, Its not for a Faerie! and Faerie Amarie (the naughty one) certainty isn’t going to get her hands on it. Its for a Dragon NPC, a very silly one.  I need that Osgrid sim though. It will help lots with my plans to help out the hyper grid as well. To this silly semi-noob- all this 4096 stuff at this point seems to be about infrastructure not viewer bugs (I’m likely a bad araxie for saying that though). But I hope my plan can help.

I didn’t find my pony-girl animation Wahhhhhhhh.  ,  Looks like I will have to make my own crawl animation. There goes the time to do other cool things.

Yay, My OsGrid avatar was able to hypergrid into my new sim/grid today. Dropped off some stuff I wanted from my OsGrid inventory and tested HG and stuff. So all the HyperGrid goodies are working. I had to move the region coordinates up near OSGrid . I have no need for them to be in the lower boonies anyway. I miss having a place to be god on OsGrid though. All I wanted to do was edit my hyper-hat script there, but had problems with permissions at several sandboxes. Apparently up in the air at Wright Plaza works great though. I was glad I had my hyper-hat with me though while there on my empty sim. I dropped off goodies, tested some security stuff (since technically my OsGrid avi was a stranger on my new sim), and Hyper Hatted back to LBSA plaza. I find I have to go there first when I try to Hypergrid back to OsGrid from obscure places on the hyper-grid, other wise I get some “we don’t know you error” stuff errr something. Don’t know why. I did try to port into that Hypernica Upper Sim several times (the one with all the nifty gates) but that sim never likes me when I want to use it. Its fine though when I’m just dickin’ around. One of the reasons I decided to just change my sim coordinates so Osgrid was closer. OsGrid is a long way from the lower boonies where the sim setup put me. It has made me decide to improve my hyper-hat script though. I may even use the improved scripts as a promotion to get people to visit my grid and have something damn handy at the same time. Without having to depend on this sim or that sim, a gate , or cut and paste and search.

Araxie Grid is coming along. Everything is almost ready for my first region grid wise, though the cloud version is just a field (when I decide to boot it). DNS, working (for when I need to scale), cloud working , Diva distro working,  need to test some hypergrid action when I boot the beast. I’ve been spinning content on my local PC.  I have much to make. and I love to play in the sun this time of year in RL, so full launch may take awhile, even though the basics are ready. I doubt I’ll be doing any of those “grid” things I hear of – like land sales and such. This toy is not a business to me at this point -more like an art project. We will see how it evolves.

Somewhere, in the fifth or seventh dimension, the Faeries that were have a home. Yes, well here , or heres that are close by like opensim, they can bend things, alter reality: and other fun card tricks. But mostly they just want to tell their stories, even if it is through the half-ass poorly coded and flawed projections that they have access to here by way of that slacker Araxie Longoar dude and his helpers. So enter Patoodie Head. Yes, one of the most scary dragons in the 5th dimension, and Faerie Nessa’s best friend. Sure there are stories a plenty about the horrid dragon, all about how he could decimate Death-Knights and their star-ships and such. Sure there are stories about why one of the most bad-ass Faeries that ever lived (Nessa) is so child-like and bouncy now calling everyone Patoodie. But those are for the camp-fire circle that is to come on Araxie Grid. Today , Faerie Sunshine was rolling in the sand of the development island laughing at Patoodie- Head’s current projection on this OpenSim dimension. Funny thing is no one called her on it, not Faerie Nessa, not even the scary Dragon. He just bowed his head. Though he is so cool looking when he breathes. He is made of Linda Kellie’s Frog, her dog and random rocks the Faeries picked up. He has no wings yet, or a proper crawl animation (any one have one to share?). But he is the first projection of the dragon into the dimension that is OpenSim. So take note and be afraid,  or at least a little afraid? Go ahead wet your self in fear, or call on Faerie Nessa to guide you though the encounter… Or? Ohh geez! Who are we kidding. Just join Faerie Sunshine with her pointing and giggles. Geez, I made a Dragon that could fly, run, breathe fire, talk, jump, play, but alas it looks so goofy. Maybe that’s a start, maybe not. Poor Poor Poor ole Patoodie Head.

I’ve been testing some stuff for my grid set up I am planning.

I installed Diva’s distribution (thanks Diva for making that) on a cloud today when I was taking a break from playing in the sun. I had to do some dns tricks with a sub domain to get the regions.ini to work, since my server has multiple domains/ips (due to the way regions.ini uses internal ips.). but its working on the cloud now. I am also going to test the standard opensim. I’ve not decided that I am going to use Diva distro for production yet.

What I am planning and testing for is a proper grid. One that is hyper-grid enabled, will run on 64bit linux and will allow me to scale. I will also want to be able to tweak things and grow. One of the things that is turning me off about the diva distro is all the “don’t mess with this file warnings” in the comments, but apparently I can override everything in another file. But as a rule: I will void the warranty if I buy something. and I know me well enough to say: Yes, I’ll likely put stuff in those “don’t mess with these” files. Heck, I’ve already over-ridden the smtp settings for gmail the thing wanted to use, but that wasn’t in a naughty file. So I’m only a slightly naughty Araxie.

I don’t care about or need gui, or anything like that . I can use a command line just fine. I do want hyper-grid enabled goodies and such though. I have more testing to do. The diva one may win me over, may not. but anyway I got in as Ruth to the sim on the cloud with diva’s distro today. So yay! That’s a start.

I mentioned a blog or few ago that I thought that I had learned the ropes of OpenSim enough to no longer coin myself with the title of noob. Ooooh la la, I had gained my sea-legs, I thought (loads animation pose on deck of his pirate ship & reminds self to look at wind settings).

I even thought (after reading the current dev chats) that I might have at least a minor something or two to offer at a developers meeting N stuff. Wrong!: I find this week that my supposed “ropes knowledge” is just enough to barely sail around the harbour.

Ha Ha Ha. So sure, I have a handle on some server-tech (had a head start on that one). So the things that seem to worry other semi-new open-sim users worries me the least. I want to spend my sim-play-time spinning stuff to put on my world now. I enjoy doing the server stuff some, but server stuff is like tidying up the wood-working shop after you make a cool table or something. You can enjoy the process or not-doesn’t matter. What good is a tidy shop-shelf if some cool project doesn’t come out of the silly shop.

I have some cool scripting tricks up my sleeve -(more than I shared-it was similar to other things I’ve done so I’m picking up virtual world scripting quickly). Oh and Wooo- I even have a silly hat that helps me travel the hyper-grid with cool in-world ease. So silly fella that Araxie is thought he was all ready to be like Homer’s epic tale of a heroic Odysseus setting out on Poseidon’s sea’s with his coming launch of his Araxie-Grid filled with silly stories, and wonderments that were just fodder for the fire-ring with no real outlet outside of yesteryear’s old school gaming get togethers.

But this week as I play with the nifty thing I put in my tiny (time and money) toy budget called OpenSim (and a cloud server to run the goodies). I see that I have a different kind of Homeric epic going. Homer Simpson’s classic saying “D’oh“

Yes, I felt this stuff was a creative toy to me, because well that’s what it was on my front, like a cool Warhammer set, or Legos or modelling clay (all fun and wonderful things).

Then enter Ener -stage left- (the avatar’s blog that got me started in this). She posts a blog with numbers in it. Yes somewhere people are spending 1.7 million dollars on what in my head is akin to  playing with a really nifty set of Legos. Then enter stage right Maria, She posts a blog about another bunch spending 19.4 million Euros… Geez at the cool Lego sets in the works! And a way bigger GEEZ! at the dough! (not the Homer Simpson kind – though it is epic like Odysseus) .

Yes, after seeing that, all I have to say is: “Yes, I am still a noob”. There is something major out there I still don’t get yet on the virtual worlds front. So I still only have  the Homer Simpson brand of “Do’h”.

Thinking about taking my OsGrid Sim offline for awhile. I am about to go on a RL walkabout and don’t really have time to use it much anyway, an no one visits it but me.

Plus , I have this nifty local version in my RV on localhost that is free (no cloud server required), and no I don’t have the type of broadband to do hyper-grid enabled home hosting.

I have my direction now, and feel I’ve learned the ropes. So its time to sit down and make what I want. When I’m done I want to come back a-swinging. With a highly tweaked cloud server running my own grid (and maybe a small spot in OsGrid as part of it.)