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Christi Maeterlinck @Christi
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Here's an update on Mount Grace.
Having started existence on Virtus, a French-owned server, it's currently kindly hosted on a server owned by Neothar Cortex, who has 'linked it in' to OSGrid– I hope I have these technicalities right– but its future is a little uncertain. He may have to close down that server and, while I have a new OSGrid base myself (Gramarye2), I can't afford the fees involved in supporting Mount Grace there as it takes up 4 full-sized sims.
But thanks to Neo, it's accessible for the time being at hg.osgrid.org:80:Mount Grace; as Susannah says. Make your arrival at Mount Grace (285, 300, 296) where there is a Visitor Centre, a free Monk's habit for your avatar, an avatar height reminder (set your avatar Appearance/Height slider to the minimum), and a link to the starting point on the road from Durham Cathedral to York Minster, from which your avatar traveller seeks a bed for the night in the Priory.
Jupiter Rowland suggests keeping some alts online continuously to act as guides. Sure... although you can see most of it in an unaccompanied visit, I'd certainly be happy to meet and show people round. IM me in OSGrid or SL 1pm to 2.30pm SLtime; I'm Christi Maeterlinck in both grids.
In the longer term I have the 4 OAR files safe, pending a new home on a suitable OSGrid server as and if the move takes place.
There's still work to be done (the watermill wheel needs scripting attention) but the rest is essentially complete.
Yes, it is indeed mostly prim-based; I had no mesh or sculptie knowledge when the bulk of the work was done and haven't acquired it since. If you'd like to know a little about how it was put together (accurate to within a metre of its real-world position and dimensions), you might like to look at a Powerpoint show of how it was built, at
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zln9rf29w6jl3ipxi7zb4/The-B...
(Ignore slides 2 and 16, they're mostly out of date. I'm particularly pleased with the auto-protractor shown in slide 9, which aligns in-world objects to within 1 degree of their RL angular position. Not needed when building in mesh, I imagine.)
Christi Maeterlinck
September 2022
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Having started existence on Virtus, a French-owned server, it's currently kindly hosted on a server owned by Neothar Cortex, who has 'linked it in' to OSGrid– I hope I have these technicalities right– but its future is a little uncertain. He may have to close down that server and, while I have a new OSGrid base myself (Gramarye2), I can't afford the fees involved in supporting Mount Grace there as it takes up 4 full-sized sims.
But thanks to Neo, it's accessible for the time being at hg.osgrid.org:80:Mount Grace; as Susannah says. Make your arrival at Mount Grace (285, 300, 296) where there is a Visitor Centre, a free Monk's habit for your avatar, an avatar height reminder (set your avatar Appearance/Height slider to the minimum), and a link to the starting point on the road from Durham Cathedral to York Minster, from which your avatar traveller seeks a bed for the night in the Priory.
Jupiter Rowland suggests keeping some alts online continuously to act as guides. Sure... although you can see most of it in an unaccompanied visit, I'd certainly be happy to meet and show people round. IM me in OSGrid or SL 1pm to 2.30pm SLtime; I'm Christi Maeterlinck in both grids.
In the longer term I have the 4 OAR files safe, pending a new home on a suitable OSGrid server as and if the move takes place.
There's still work to be done (the watermill wheel needs scripting attention) but the rest is essentially complete.
Yes, it is indeed mostly prim-based; I had no mesh or sculptie knowledge when the bulk of the work was done and haven't acquired it since. If you'd like to know a little about how it was put together (accurate to within a metre of its real-world position and dimensions), you might like to look at a Powerpoint show of how it was built, at
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zln9rf29w6jl3ipxi7zb4/The-B...
(Ignore slides 2 and 16, they're mostly out of date. I'm particularly pleased with the auto-protractor shown in slide 9, which aligns in-world objects to within 1 degree of their RL angular position. Not needed when building in mesh, I imagine.)
Christi Maeterlinck
September 2022
Thanks for the advice and warning ahead.
By the way, when I mentioned alts that are online 24/7, they usually don't serve as guides (that's what you normally use NPCs for) but to artificially push the visitor count and thereby the ranking here on OSW. Not exactly few sim owners do that, even though it's cheating and against OSW rules.
As for the watermill wheel, if you need help, try to get into contact with Kayaker Magic. He has probably scripted worse things than that.
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By the way, when I mentioned alts that are online 24/7, they usually don't serve as guides (that's what you normally use NPCs for) but to artificially push the visitor count and thereby the ranking here on OSW. Not exactly few sim owners do that, even though it's cheating and against OSW rules.
As for the watermill wheel, if you need help, try to get into contact with Kayaker Magic. He has probably scripted worse things than that.
Oh, thank you Jupiter. The watermill wheel: for some reason the X/Y/Z values controlling the axle rotation have got corrupted. I'll peep inside the script and try swapping Y for X or something. I'm not really a scripter so I might need to give Kayaker a shout; thank you for the link.
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