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What are the terms of use in open worlds like Opensim on sketchfab? Many of those 3d model sites like Turbo squid do not allow models to be used in Open worlds where people can get a copy of the item. I cant find a similar terms of use on sketchfab.
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Each creator states their terms. This model is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC 4.0 You are free to:
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Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.
This license is acceptable for Free Cultural Works.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material
Credit is given here and a notecard placed with the item with a link to the creators page showing CC4.0
Thanks for that. I do find it confusing as many creations while being under creative commons can only be used in closed worlds.
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This model is being given freely for anyone to download as long as you give attribution it can be in any world. You also have to note any changes to the model.
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I wrote these words a maybe a year or two ago as a warning.
Days of Evil
In those days of evil we became divided
We were barbarians at each others throat
In both word and deed
Our love for our fellow countrymen
Turned to hatred and chose a side
We were pitted against one another
Determined that our side was right
And any who strayed were torn to shreds
Old wounds were torn wide open
We were told that we would be the heroes
Of a new revolution, a new world
The young heeded the call to arms
Thinking that they were invincible
“We know the right way!” they cried
“If you are not for us you are against us!”
They thought it was something new
it had happened many times before
The outcome is always the same
A terrible toll on humankind
It always ends in the killing of the other
The other that we hated, that we blamed
We should weep over our arrogance
Get on our knees and cover ourselves with ashes
Grieve for what we bought on all
Mourn deeply for our humanity lost
How did we get to this point?
Perhaps it was the propaganda
That spewed forth from our tvs
That we so easily fell for
How did we become so frenzied?
Maybe it was the powers that be
Who wanted to keep us divided
To distract from their misdeeds
How did we find it so easy to hate?
Perhaps it was the whisper in our ears
’See that person over there?”
“They are to blame for all your issues!”
How were we so easy to manipulate?
It is not because We were dumb or innocent
It is that we wanted an excuse to act out
Our hatred of the other!!
In those days of evil blood ran through the streets!
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Days of Evil
In those days of evil we became divided
We were barbarians at each others throat
In both word and deed
Our love for our fellow countrymen
Turned to hatred and chose a side
We were pitted against one another
Determined that our side was right
And any who strayed were torn to shreds
Old wounds were torn wide open
We were told that we would be the heroes
Of a new revolution, a new world
The young heeded the call to arms
Thinking that they were invincible
“We know the right way!” they cried
“If you are not for us you are against us!”
They thought it was something new
it had happened many times before
The outcome is always the same
A terrible toll on humankind
It always ends in the killing of the other
The other that we hated, that we blamed
We should weep over our arrogance
Get on our knees and cover ourselves with ashes
Grieve for what we bought on all
Mourn deeply for our humanity lost
How did we get to this point?
Perhaps it was the propaganda
That spewed forth from our tvs
That we so easily fell for
How did we become so frenzied?
Maybe it was the powers that be
Who wanted to keep us divided
To distract from their misdeeds
How did we find it so easy to hate?
Perhaps it was the whisper in our ears
’See that person over there?”
“They are to blame for all your issues!”
How were we so easy to manipulate?
It is not because We were dumb or innocent
It is that we wanted an excuse to act out
Our hatred of the other!!
In those days of evil blood ran through the streets!
This is so well said, so well written, yet sadly also tragically accurate. I am sad at the state of this world, but impressed with your writing. hugs n high 5's :)
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Thank you and I am also so sad about it all but the only antidote i can see is to love you neighbour as oneself. This is a hard thing to do sometimes but we have to through a sheer act of our will or the light will be snuffed out of the world fully.
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For all us tech dummies out there I feel I can express our response to this in one word, UH??
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Great post! Id also add these bodies allow for more creativity in that we have to be creative with what is available for them. Its not all provided for us and I find it a good challenge to see what i can come up with! Speaking of whichim just about ready to put out some Ruth outfits!
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There are sl creators that allow you to sell their mesh models that you have textured yourself etc. like Meli and crash and underground! These items need to follow the ToS in os to and so you need to sell them via KItely!
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You are most welcome. Thank you, I do try to make layers work well with mesh and boots always go with BOM jeans and leggings. its about creating some shape.
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I textured all the things in the pics. Other than the jeans and shoes. Thats the Damien Fate dress.
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I so love when people use dehumanising language about other human beings "all the other libertarian right parasites." When we dehumanise others through the use of words such as parasites or a cancer it makes it easier to justify our hatred of the other. As for this " Snowflake, Social Justice Warrior, Wokeness and Cultural Marxism" try being called "Terrorist, White Supremacist, NAZI, Uncle Tom, Racist and to0 many other names to list here. The thing is the majority of us are none of these things and it is only the extreme edges of both sides pushing this shit. You can not place all this disunity on the right wing, your text here shows the left and left media is just as responsible for contributing to that. The rest of us just want to get on with our lives and be neighbours to one another and you push shit to divide us further. You have built up an image of the other side to the point it wont be long before you are willing to shoot your neighbour due to a difference of opinion. Take some responsibility for your part in the disunity and for not reaching across the divide to make peace and by you I mean all of us.
Rant over!
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Rant over!
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I would much rather be around "grumble old men and women", even if they are damaged, than self entitled narcissistic snow flaky gen Z and younger gen Ys. Damaged old grumblers have lived a full life and have earnt the right to grumble about the world. When I get old I plan on going out grumbling loudly and being a pain in the ass to those around me. :)
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Right. The last thing we need here are youngsters with next to zero experience in life who try their hardest to push forward all their ideas of "political correctness" to their full extents all over the Hypergrid, regardless of how practical or sensible these ideas are or whether or not they even contradict each other. Then again, their "cancel culture" may lead to them running a handful of grids of their own which are pretty much isolated from the rest of the Hypergrid because they've banned all other grids inbound and outbound.
Those who aren't snowflakes aren't interested in OpenSim at all. Not only is it too old and too old-fashioned-looking because it doesn't run on the latest, greatest, hottest video game graphics engine du jour, but it's boring. No missions, no quests, no opponents to beat, no power levels to grid and then brag about. Oh, and you can't buy OpenSim on Steam, and they don't know how else to install a computer game.
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Those who aren't snowflakes aren't interested in OpenSim at all. Not only is it too old and too old-fashioned-looking because it doesn't run on the latest, greatest, hottest video game graphics engine du jour, but it's boring. No missions, no quests, no opponents to beat, no power levels to grid and then brag about. Oh, and you can't buy OpenSim on Steam, and they don't know how else to install a computer game.
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OS is a place where we can all create and should be able to do what wish with those items, Its not SL with its monopoly on creativity. I for one am happy to buy a few items here and there but i do find having to go through different payment systems on different grids a bit frustrating.
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While I do use things that come from SL I also buy from creators on Kitely. I have spent a fortune in SL and am okie with using the same body and head I have in SL. IN stating all that I would love to see OS be truly its own thing and not just another SL clone so i am trying to learn some skills to contribute to that.
I also believe this, " Sharing is truly caring only if it's the original creator giving it away free, or if they have explicitly given permission to others to do so.", and I dislike the whole "Sharing is Caring" slogan because its a dishonest thing. NO one is ever entitled to your labour, time and effort for free, that is called SLAVERY!! If you want to share out of your own heart that is a wonderful thing but no one has the right to claim your work time and effort to satisfy their needs and wants EVER!!
And to those who complain about the items in OS not being as great as in SL, stop complaining and start contributing in some way to OS. I have regions that I pay for and have given others to use for free. I am working on some items that while may not be as great as sl will add to OS options. Learn some skill you can use to benefit OS, even texturing some simple items can be useful, programs like Blender and Gimp (and so many other useful open source programs) are free to use and there are so many tutorials on you tube etc. Heck just throw a texture on an item in world and play with the edit options.
I also think Linda Kellies meshes is a great resource for some base items to build upon and upcycle. You could even spend time searching the internet for public domain textures and mesh items, they are out there to be found you just have to put the work in. Learn how to change Obj and fbx etc into dae files in blender, how to paint faces etc. SOOOO much you can be learning on your own.
Anyway i could say so much more but will leave it here for now other than to say that while the tech for OS etc is old its still a great resource for a creative outlet for so many who cannot afford sl prices. Make it your own, make it as silly and as crazy or as fantastic and beautiful as you want. Its your world to create and play in it and dont let others demand that you supply them with the very best.
Have fun and build on!!
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I also believe this, " Sharing is truly caring only if it's the original creator giving it away free, or if they have explicitly given permission to others to do so.", and I dislike the whole "Sharing is Caring" slogan because its a dishonest thing. NO one is ever entitled to your labour, time and effort for free, that is called SLAVERY!! If you want to share out of your own heart that is a wonderful thing but no one has the right to claim your work time and effort to satisfy their needs and wants EVER!!
And to those who complain about the items in OS not being as great as in SL, stop complaining and start contributing in some way to OS. I have regions that I pay for and have given others to use for free. I am working on some items that while may not be as great as sl will add to OS options. Learn some skill you can use to benefit OS, even texturing some simple items can be useful, programs like Blender and Gimp (and so many other useful open source programs) are free to use and there are so many tutorials on you tube etc. Heck just throw a texture on an item in world and play with the edit options.
I also think Linda Kellies meshes is a great resource for some base items to build upon and upcycle. You could even spend time searching the internet for public domain textures and mesh items, they are out there to be found you just have to put the work in. Learn how to change Obj and fbx etc into dae files in blender, how to paint faces etc. SOOOO much you can be learning on your own.
Anyway i could say so much more but will leave it here for now other than to say that while the tech for OS etc is old its still a great resource for a creative outlet for so many who cannot afford sl prices. Make it your own, make it as silly and as crazy or as fantastic and beautiful as you want. Its your world to create and play in it and dont let others demand that you supply them with the very best.
Have fun and build on!!
Yes, there's so much to do in OpenSim. Upcycling is a good starting point. You can texture or re-texture things made in OpenSim (as long as the creator allows you to do that) or Damien Fate's mesh clothes, and be it only for yourself. Or you could take older furniture and upgrade it to SFposer, especially the old power-hogging MLP stuff. SFposer really isn't that complicated to use, and direct conversions from PMAC are particularly easy and actually make furniture more useful.
You don't have to compete with what freebie store owners import from SL right now, not if you find a niche that isn't overrun with stolen SL payware. Also, there will always be users who prefer legal content over the latest, greatest, most glamourous luxury items from SL, so they're likely to be customers.
Also, you don't have to go all the way and learn Blender and make mesh. Prims aren't dead yet, at least not in OpenSim where prim counts hardly matter. Skilled builders can make houses out of nothing but prims. There are enough textures you can use, so you don't have to make your own ones if you don't want to. And for customers, prim houses have got one big advantage: A house made out of a few hundred prims is easier to modify than one made out of a dozen mesh chunks, more so if the loose textures are included.
Yes, granted, making houses that don't look like 2007 newbie creations takes skills and practice, but maybe it's you who has got what it takes. And building are always needed, especially buildings that don't look like made for 12-foot avatars or bigger and buildings from somewhere else than the USA.
And believe it or not, even the women's mesh fashion department is still lacking. I know someone who keeps churning out her own original meshes because no content thief ever imports from SL what she wants, knee-length skirts, calf-length skirts, long summer dresses, medium-height pumps and sandals etc.
In general, one of the greatest driving forces for creativity in OpenSim is not being able to find what you're looking for. If you've searched the Hypergrid up and down for something that you need, you'll eventually give up and make it yourself, and be it from pre-fab materials, or at least modify something that's close enough. And then you may decide that what you've made is good enough for others to have it, and others may look for just that, too. Voilà, your first creative contribution to the community.
I myself may not have made much yet, but this is how I started. Yes, I tend to get carried away making more and more variants (need 1 store shelf, make 32; need 1 female skin, make 138), but the more variants there are, the more likely it is that someone may find a suitable one.
Oh, and Remmy, while I'm at it: Any plans to make your stuff from Tropicana Freebies available again? The layer beachwear, the mesh dresses, the beach bags, the hats...
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You don't have to compete with what freebie store owners import from SL right now, not if you find a niche that isn't overrun with stolen SL payware. Also, there will always be users who prefer legal content over the latest, greatest, most glamourous luxury items from SL, so they're likely to be customers.
Also, you don't have to go all the way and learn Blender and make mesh. Prims aren't dead yet, at least not in OpenSim where prim counts hardly matter. Skilled builders can make houses out of nothing but prims. There are enough textures you can use, so you don't have to make your own ones if you don't want to. And for customers, prim houses have got one big advantage: A house made out of a few hundred prims is easier to modify than one made out of a dozen mesh chunks, more so if the loose textures are included.
Yes, granted, making houses that don't look like 2007 newbie creations takes skills and practice, but maybe it's you who has got what it takes. And building are always needed, especially buildings that don't look like made for 12-foot avatars or bigger and buildings from somewhere else than the USA.
And believe it or not, even the women's mesh fashion department is still lacking. I know someone who keeps churning out her own original meshes because no content thief ever imports from SL what she wants, knee-length skirts, calf-length skirts, long summer dresses, medium-height pumps and sandals etc.
In general, one of the greatest driving forces for creativity in OpenSim is not being able to find what you're looking for. If you've searched the Hypergrid up and down for something that you need, you'll eventually give up and make it yourself, and be it from pre-fab materials, or at least modify something that's close enough. And then you may decide that what you've made is good enough for others to have it, and others may look for just that, too. Voilà, your first creative contribution to the community.
I myself may not have made much yet, but this is how I started. Yes, I tend to get carried away making more and more variants (need 1 store shelf, make 32; need 1 female skin, make 138), but the more variants there are, the more likely it is that someone may find a suitable one.
Oh, and Remmy, while I'm at it: Any plans to make your stuff from Tropicana Freebies available again? The layer beachwear, the mesh dresses, the beach bags, the hats...
What you state here is so true,
"In general, one of the greatest driving forces for creativity in OpenSim is not being able to find what you're looking for. If you've searched the Hypergrid up and down for something that you need, you'll eventually give up and make it yourself, and be it from pre-fab materials, or at least modify something that's close enough. And then you may decide that what you've made is good enough for others to have it, and others may look for just that, too. Voilà, your first creative contribution to the community.' Necessity drives creativity!
I mentioned Blender etc as so many want mesh stuff but expect others to provide it for them, rather than learning to do some basic things that could help os. I can make those things available though those were freebies i had out when i was planning to create a Kiteley store, to which I would add more options for sale.
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"In general, one of the greatest driving forces for creativity in OpenSim is not being able to find what you're looking for. If you've searched the Hypergrid up and down for something that you need, you'll eventually give up and make it yourself, and be it from pre-fab materials, or at least modify something that's close enough. And then you may decide that what you've made is good enough for others to have it, and others may look for just that, too. Voilà, your first creative contribution to the community.' Necessity drives creativity!
I mentioned Blender etc as so many want mesh stuff but expect others to provide it for them, rather than learning to do some basic things that could help os. I can make those things available though those were freebies i had out when i was planning to create a Kiteley store, to which I would add more options for sale.