To any of the people that have read this Blog over the years

 By Avatar JayR Cela

Please get vaccinated for this Covid virus. 

you owe this to your fellow human beings, and it's your duty to help out.

PLEASE Get Vaccinated 

JayR Cela

OpenSim HyperGrid : Saturday August 21 2021 - The Fabulous Wailers 50's-60's Rock & Roll band - With Lots of Free working full perm powerboats

     It has been a while since my last post, I hope everyone is doing well.

I just wanted to tell you about the Fabulous Wailers event August 21 2021 on the Great Central Lake region in 3rdRock Grid.  Location: grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

A very special event at the Great Central Lake region. "The Fabulous Wailers Radio Show" This is a phenomenal 2 hour show featuring back to back performances, of the famous "Walk Alone" show,followed by the Live Radio Interview Special with some of the original band members,that traces the history of this Iconic 50's-60's Rock and Roll band. A Truly Classic Event that should not be missed! August 21 2021 10:00am-12:00pm Grid Time.  I also have a great selection of FreeBee Full Perm scripted and working power boats and jetskis set out for anyone to drive or take copies of.

    This is located on a beautiful 3x3 Sim using BulletSim Physics, all of the boats and jetskis are operational, and have been tuned to provide a realistic effect when driving  using my BumpWave  system that allow the boats to hop over wave effects on the waters surface, they also fly over jump ramps.

    If you have never had the chance to listen to a The Fabulous Wailers shows, your in for a real treat with this 2 hour special that tracks the origins of the real life band with some radio interviews of various founding members exploring the bands history from early High School sock hops, to early Rock & Roll clubs to creating numerous Top Hit songs and many Albums. If you enjoy late 50's-and early 60's Rock & Roll, you owe it to yourself to stop by.

Region Name: Great Central Lake

HyperGrid Location: grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

-Time: 10:00am-12:00pm 

Hope to see you there.

JayR Cela :_)

OpenSim HyperGrid : the World Famous "Fabulous Wailers" 1950's - 60's Rock and Roll Virtual World Band : April 17 - 11:00am : 3rdRock Grid

      Hi there again, I am very pleased to announce the forth appearance of the World Famous 1950's and 60's Rock and Roll band "Supreme in Virtual Worlds", the "Fabulous Wailers" on  3rdRock Grid : Great Central Lake region April 17 at 11:00am standard grid time.

hypergrid link : grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

   The lead member Kristobell Jiminy and the rest of the band have been performing in virtual worlds for as long as I can remember, from SecondLife to numerous OpenSim venues throughout the HyperGrid, and I got to tell ya they are fantastic, if you like dancing to some nostalgic great tunes this is the place you want to be tomorrow at 11:00am grid time. We also have 1 hour of 1960's Detroit Motor City MoTown classics from the 60's after the main show, along with some fully free and full perm power boats and jet-ski's. So stop on by if you can. 

JayR Cela :_)

  

OpenSim HyperGrid : Some new Free Full Perm Zodiac style power boats now available

 Hi there everyone, I just wanted to let ya know I recently set out some new boats yesterday and would like to share them with my fellow OpenSim users. These particular boats are of the Zodiac style outboards typically seen accompanying Yachts. Haa man I wish / LOL :_).

    anyways these are Full Perm Freebie's, I don't recall where I found the original Cyan version, regardless I decided to use a different  motor script, reshaped and then replaced the root prim, changed the original Cyan color to Lime, Blue, Green and Dark, you can try various other color combinations yourself.  The main reasons I decided to discard the original script, the one I chose is better documented and has the auto return function built right into the script, meaning that once a driver dismounts, the boat returns to it's original launch position. This eliminates the need for the rezz boards I have been and  am still using now. This particular script  is the same one used in the wonderful Jet Ski's I obtained from my friend Shelenn Ayres of the IMA " Infinite Metaverse Alliance " and lead developer on the OpenSim HyperGrid enabled : grid.metaversedepot.com:8002 

     I made 2 minor changes with this script, I increased the maximum speed from 4 gears to 6,and I don't really recall how I did that,

 also with the Zodiac's I changed the drivers view to be a bit closer over the shoulder from behind view as opposed to the Jet-Ski's further back and more from above view. This was a very interesting to experiment with, if your interested to try it yourself by finding the settings to edit in this section of code 

    {

    llSetCameraParams([

                       CAMERA_ACTIVE, 1,                 // 0=INACTIVE  1=ACTIVE

                       CAMERA_BEHINDNESS_ANGLE, 2.5,     // (0 to 180) DEGREES

                       CAMERA_BEHINDNESS_LAG, 0.3,       // (0 to 3) SECONDS

                       CAMERA_DISTANCE, 10.0,             // ( 0.5 to 10) METERS

                       CAMERA_PITCH, 12.0,                // (-45 to 80) DEGREES

                       CAMERA_POSITION_LOCKED, FALSE,    // (TRUE or FALSE)

                       CAMERA_POSITION_LAG, 0.0,         // (0 to 3) SECONDS

                       CAMERA_POSITION_THRESHOLD, 0.0,   // (0 to 4) METERS

                       CAMERA_FOCUS_LOCKED, FALSE,       // (TRUE or FALSE)

                       CAMERA_FOCUS_LAG, 0.0,           // (0 to 3) SECONDS

                       CAMERA_FOCUS_THRESHOLD, 0.0,      // (0 to 4) METERS

                       CAMERA_FOCUS_OFFSET, <2, 0, -1>   // <-10,-10,-10> to <10,10,10> METERS

                      ]);

    llForceMouselook(FALSE);

}

    The Zodiac is set to : CAMERA_FOCUS_OFFSET, <2, 0, -1> 

    The Jet-Ski is set to : CAMERA_FOCUS_OFFSET, <-5, 0, 0>

    

    I should also mention that  I have also disabled the " Where Am I - responder " script as well, by commenting out all of it's code.

  //

//integer WHERE_CHANNEL = -31415385;

//

//default

//{

//    state_entry()

//    {

//        llListen(WHERE_CHANNEL, "", NULL_KEY, ""); 

//    }

//

//    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string msg) 

//    {

//        if( msg == "where_report" )

//            llOwnerSay( "owned by " + llKey2Name( llGetOwner() ) + " is located at " + (string)llGetPos() );

//    }

//}

    The reason I did this is because the main motor script will not function if you simply delete the Where Am I - responder script from the object. My first attempt at this approach resulted in a script that refused to compile, I managed to solve the problem by Stopping  everything and adding back the Where Am I - responder script back into the root prim, then commented everything out in it, recompiled everything in MONO, Reset, and Run the script, I needed to do this  twice for some reason. Once I did that everything worked fine. It's very easy to re-enable this Where am I feature by simply stopping all the scripts, edit and un-comment  each line of the Where Am I - responder script, then recompile, reset, run and you should be good to go, you may need to do it twice, unfortunately.

      I have been experimenting with power boat scripts for a number of years now, and I feel this is an excellent example of a well done and at professional level quality, well commented script that I have run across so far. You can pick up you free copies of the new Zodiacs and the Jet-Ski's on The 3rd Rock Grid : the Great Central Lake region.

grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

JayR Cela :_)

Real Life and Virtual Life : My first Covid Shot

 By Avatar jayR Cela 

      Hello there folks, I am happy to say I received my first Covid vaccine dose today, and I have to tell you my anxiety level dropped quite a bit, I can get back on track of things now.

JayR Cela :_)

Jet Ski Jump on 3rd Rock Grid / OS 0.8.x with BulletSim Physics

 By avatar JayR Cela

      Hey I got ta tell ya I am all into testing out the newest and greatest stuff in OpenSim, but I got to get real here, it's breaking stuff like crazy for me:_( 

   This is unfortunately part of progressing from one a solid and stable system to a new and emerging and hopefully more robust platform, and I am sure that will eventually happen. In the mean time I would like to share with you a recent video filmed in 3rd Rock Grid  using the older OS 0.8.2.x 

          ( specifically OpenSim 0.8.2.1-DWG16c-3RGPost_Fixes       (Win/.NET) )

                  This is on 3rd Rock Grid the Great Central Lake region located at 

                               grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

    Here is my most recent video demonstrating what can be done with a bit older and more refined technology.

JayR Cela :_)

OpenSim : HyperGrid : Speed Boat Realism Effect Part 5 : New Race Course and Free Full Perm Jet Skis : Plus the Fabulous Wailers performance January 16 2021 : 11:00am Grid Time : 3rd Rock Grid : Great Central Lake : grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

 By Avatar JayR Cela    

    Hello there anyone still reading this blog :_) I don't seem to have the extra time I once did to devote for covering Open Sim news or expressing my opinions, however I am still quite active in OS, particularly in 3rd Rock Grid with several ongoing large scale projects involving powered water sport vehicles. I truly love playing around with this stuff, recently I updated the Great Central Lake region in 3RG with a new and more challenging race course designed mostly for Jet Skis, it includes numerous jump ramps a few hazards to watch out for along with more wave hops added to my wave bump system, it's quite fun to attempt to make it thru the entire course multiple times at maximum speed with out experiencing some sort of crash.

    The Jet Skis are Full Perm with a great script most everyone in already familiar with one variant or another, this particular one is very nice. I got this from Shellenn Ayres of the MetaVerseDepot Grid and its very clean, it also features the auto return  function, thus once the rider stands the vehicle returns to its original position, this can prevent a lot of problems I am currently experiencing  on this sim because people rezz multiple copies of the same boat when I use the llkill object function via a Rezz Board. Is not really a big deal, but for the Jet Skis as far as I am concerned this works best.

    As you can see my bump wave system has now been expanded to the entire 3x3 lake region.

    There are 11 jump ramps and lots of bump waves in between, so if you miss the ramps you will still experience the thrill of flying your jet ski through the air, and watch out for a few sneaky traps too. 

    If you've never been to the Great Central Lake before, it's a fun region always gradually improving.

 

    There is a beautiful night club inside with several outdoor area's for entertainment as well.

     Speaking of entertainment The Fabulous Wailers 1950s-60s Rock and Roll Band will be performing for their third performance at the lake on January 16 2021 at 11:00am grid time with 1 hour more of 50s-60s Rock and Roll recorded from the famous Ed Sullivan television show. So if you can stop on by for some great music or just want to grab a copy of the full perm jet skis, stop on by whenever you can.

                                                              

                                                               3rd Rock Grid

                                                           Great Central Lake

                                                               Size: 768 x 768
                            grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake (437,406,27)

JayR Cela  :_)

 

Is OpenSim Racist ?

 By Avatar JayR Cela

     This is a serious question, why is everyone in OpenSim White ? Think about it for a minute or two. It is not only a serious question, it is a serious problem. 

OpenSim HyperGrid and building a new computer : Your thoughts please

    Hi there everyone, today I am posting to hopefully get some feed back and or advice about my next computer build, it has been 7 years since I put together my current rig it's getting really long in the tooth these days and will be put into a reserve state soon, this time around I will be going with AMD for the CPU, I'm undecided on the GPU, and MotherBoard. I am a Linux user and I was wondering if anyone has some comments or advice they would like to pass along.

JayR Cela _)

OpenSim : HyperGrid : are any of you into Retro Game Racing ?

By Avatar JayR Cela

     I was just wondering if anyone that happens to be reading this blog is into old school retro games that are devoted to some sort of race event's ?

     The past several months I have been exploring numerous, race game's via emulators for the most popular console platforms at that  time of relevance. It is fascinating to say the least. The Physics Engines used, the pro's and con's.
 
     Currently we have Bullet Sim and ubODE, I was just wondering about  your thought's and perhaps get a discussion started.

JauR Cela