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Since I know Alynna and many kitsune here where involved with the Second Life sim we had and I already spoke with her about this, I decided to make a post here about the Opensim Kitsuhana simulator that I'm currently running. This post mainly refers to those who used to go to the Kitsuhana / Kitsune Island simulator in Second Life which Alynna runs. Those who are new to SL however are as well invited to try it.
Ok, first of all I shall say a little about Second Life for those who never heard about it just to avoid any confusion. SL is a virtual space where one can build whatever they want, configure and model their character how they want, and basically do anything in 3D. Otherkin and furries alike use SL a lot, as there you can model yourself any types of avatars (characters) including furry / kitsune ones. Some otherkin there find SL a great way of expressing yourself as what you are. Please note however that SL is not a game, it is just a 3D space where one does and builds what they want.
Further on, I will explain what OpenSim is. Opensim is, simply put, a community made server-side application for Second Life. It works with the same SL client, just that one can make their own grids and sims completely separate from Linden Lab and their official servers, and of course all for free as you make your own server and do what you want there. However, it is still kind of a beta and under development, so some things are still not implemented and fully unstable.
Now... the reason I am posting about all this here is because, like I said, Alynna used to have such a sim for us kitsune on SL (the official grid of course) where we and others lived some great moments in the past, and done a lot of fascinating things. Well the sim itsself is still there just that it's not by far as active and safe as it used to be, since SL went through some pretty bad moments in the last months and lowered very much from what it used to be last year. Most however probably remember the Kitsune Shrine we used to have there a good while ago, the Avatar Bazaar, and everything else Alynna and the others had.
Over the last months I took the time and rebuild the buildings we had, on Opensim on my own computer from older screenshots and a few I took from Ash. I remade the Shrine, the Avatar Bazaar, the teahouse and the building which was back then called the Quickfox HQ. I attached a few screenshots to this post so people can see. I made sure to keep everything as close to what it was before as possible.
Recently, attachments where implemented and are now supported in opensim, which means that we can have kitsune avatars. My plan is to make this sim the virtual 3D world of Kitsuhana (just like the #spirituality is our IRC channel) together with Alynna though we agreed I host the sim myself for the moment. Basically I want to make this a 3D space where people can hang as their kitsune selves together, build and discuss, just like the one we used to have on the official SL or even better. Sadly, I'm having issues with hosting the sim at the moment so the sim may be down or crash a lot. Also I didn't make any furry avatars yet except a personal one I have separately (as of course the content from the LL gird and OSgrid has nothing to do with one another), but we will of course build many when the time will come and more people get on. If anyone is interested to come, I have noted the steps below for accessing the sim;
1) Go to http://www.osgrid.org/ and register an account there. Choose a Firstname, Lastname and password.
2) Once you are logged in, click the Change Account button, and in the new window that appears select Opensim Kitsuhana from the drop down menu. After that, click the Save button below. Note that if Opensim Kitsuhana doesn't appear in that list, its because the sim is down. Just try another time when it is there.
3) Make sure you have the latest official Second Life client installed. If you don't, go to http://secondlife.com/ , download it and install it. After that, from the Second Life installation folder drag a shortcut to SecondLife.exe somewhere on your desktop or wherever you are comfortable with it.
4) Right-click that shortcut and select Properties. In the Target field, you should normally have something of the type "C:\Program Files\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe" or different depending on where you installed SL. Change that entire field to "C:\(path to your SL)\SecondLife.exe -loginuri http://osgrid.org:8002" (without the "" 's).
5) Click OK and open up that shortcut. Once your SL client is open, write the firstname lastname and password you registered with on osgrid and click Connect. You should now connect to the sim. If you get logged into another sim however, its once again because the sim is down.
Note that the instructions below are for Windows users only... I don't know the steps for Linux or other systems as I hardly ever used them. Either way, everyone is welcome if they want to come. I hope that soon we can build a new kitsune 3D space to hang in and have more fun there. If anybody wants to help with building kitsune avatars or making other buildings to populate the sim, please let me know (though the issues OS currently has make sims crash a lot so yeah, you need to be patient with it). Sorry for the long post and hope people will come and we can start what we had on the LL grid once again.
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