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

OpenSim : HyperGrid : Speed Boat Realism Effect Part 4 : My First Video

By Avatar JayR Cela

     This is one of many test's I am planning in order to promote the Motor Sport of Speed Boat Racing in OpenSIm. Check out this video.

    This is working out well so far.

STAY TUNED  / Lol

JayR Cela :_)

 By Avatar JayR Cela

     Appearing Jun 20 - 3RD Rock Grid - Great Central Lake Region
The Fabulous Wailers - 60's Rock & Roll Special Event
Power Boat Demolition Derby
10:00am PB Driving Lessons and Practice runs
11:00am "The Fabulous Wailers"
12:00-2:00pm 70's-80's Live Rock Music
along with "INSANE Power Boat Madness

! Bring Your Friends and !
CRASH into Any and All Fellow Boaters
3x3 Var Region and a "No Holds Barred"
"POWERBOAT BRAWL"

Power Boat Demolition Derby event, starting at 10:00am grid time featuring the Fabulous Wailers 1960's band at 11:00 then 2 hours of Live Rock from the 70's and 80's afterwards featuring : Byran Ferry, Eurythmics, REO Speedwagon, Head East, Night Ranger, April Wine, Joan Jett, The Bangles, George Clinton, The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Kansas, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Bachman-Turner, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Ray Vaughn-(with)-Jeff Beck, Foghat, Brian Setzer, Allman Brothers, Blues Brothers. These are all unique live performances, so stop on by if you can.

JayR Cela :_)

OpenSim : HyperGrid : Power Boats, Speed Boats and the "Realism Effect" Part 3

By Avatar JayR Cela

    Ok so my last 2 posts I was talking about all the Free Full Perm boats and scripts, this time around I'll explain the environment I pieced together, by using large (256m in some cases) Torus shapes cut in half, then placed in various locations around the region linked together to what I call the height adjustment prim allowing for extra fine tuning the event's performance characteristics difficulty level.

 

          The next step was to make the linked prim set transparent, then layering wave effects on the water,  So far this has worked out well, as you can see in the pictures below.

It's not a perfect system, but it sure beat the heck out or trying to terraform the entire 3x3 Var exactly right.  My next step was to add some surrounding mountain terrain along with some transparent barrier prims where necessary.  If you want to see this all in action please feel free to stop by 3rd Rock Grid the Great Central Lake region. This Grid Map hypergrid jump point will get you directly to the region 

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

     There are numerous Rezz Boards around the dock, touching one of them presents you with a menu selection to choose a boat to pilot and it will appear along the dockside

    As previously mentioned the boats and scripts are all full perm, however not on this region, I decided to make these No Copy, if your interested in any of what I have managed to collect so far. Just contact me and I'll take you over to the Boat Works sim and you may help yourself to what ever you like, minus a few things that are not ful prerm.

JayR Cela :_)

OpenSim : HyperGrid : Power Boats, Speed Boats and the "Realism Effect" Part 2

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    My last post I was about to explain what I did with all of these wonderful free full perm boats. Well I am back to explain further, The first thing was tracking down varios scripts, lots of testing with them, eliminating to ones I did not care for, and then 2 other things.

     The terrain, and how would the boats react to the various environments I was experimenting with? Was it a River Run Race I wanted to create, or an Open Lake environment ? After quite a bit of testing I decided that in order that a truly competitive RIver Race event would require at least a 4x4 Var sim. and it proved  more of a job than I was willing to take on.  Eventually I decided on getting the 3RD Rock Grid Foundation to allow me to finnish up a 3x3 Region Zinnia Frenzy and I first hatched as an idea for Sailing, Kataramans, Kyacks and Jet Ski's.  a number of years ago.


    The key thing I have found with all of the testing I have done so far, it is the shape of the ROOT Prim as well as the boat you are trying to make behave realistically. The 2 of them have to be fine tuned to your particular environment. And not all Boats work properly with identically configured Root Prims. You have to fine tune each boat. The key is create a constant stable environment and adjust each boat accordingly to that stable environment.

    I got a few more things to say about this, I'll be back later on today to explain further...

 Stayed Tuned

JayR Cela :_)

OpenSim : HyperGrid : Power Boats, Speed Boats and the "Realism Effect" Part 1

By Avatar JayR Cela

    As a very young boy in RL growing up 2 streets away from the Detroit River in the State of Michigan, USA. I was always fascinated by boats and ships of all kinds, from the gigantic Lake Freighters, to the motorized fishing and pleasure craft, there was never a shortage of fascinating things to view off the shoreline.

     There was one thing that really stood out to me and that was the Hydroplane races each summer up and down the river, from the Gold Cup in Detroit to the races taking place further south and north of the city throughout the season. These were in my mind, "the must see event's" of the entire year.  Some family and friends were boat owners, so as I was growing up  I quickly fell in love with ability to actually be able to drive some of them. So when I joined SecondLife back in 2005 one of the first thing I did was purchase several boats, and the experience was horrible, an absolute disaster when it came to physic engine performance, not to mention sim border crossings or the dreaded corner sim crossings.

     Eventually I gradually started migrating to OpenSim and found my home on 3rdRock Grid, a great grid, some wonderful people and it's STABLE! meaning we rarely have problems. So I started collecting powerboats from all over the hypergrid, mostly OSGrid and found all of these.

    Which was great except very few of them were actually scripted with anything good or at all. So what did I do with them ?

     Stop by for my next post and find out.

JayR Cela :_)