pick up to ten items that you think are lacking as free OpenSim content?
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I’d argue that Opensim isn’t lacking content, that seems to be flowing into the system at a healthy enough pace. What’s missing is the functionality and populated-area glue required to make that content truly useful.
ATupper
2 Jul 12 at 3:40 pm
great point ATupper! no central place for daily events – that’s the huge plus for Second Life
OSgrid and Kitely might evolve into that but it will take larger concurrencies and hypergridding as easy as intenet bookmarks
Ener Hax
2 Jul 12 at 4:14 pm
we need more Badger dance and Slap Fight animations!!
no seriously we need more animations and poses! especially sit poses!
Nebadon Izumi
2 Jul 12 at 4:33 pm
Dang! That would have been good on this poll! I’ll do another poll tomorrow with a link to QAvimator
Thanks Nebadon!
Ener Hax
2 Jul 12 at 4:41 pm
I would like to see more exercise animations — I want to get in shape the easy way, through virtual exercise!
(Actually, I’m serious — it works.)
And, again, I’d like to add that OpenSim needs stuff to spend money on. I want to spend money on stuff in OpenSim for my company grid and company avatar.
Maria Korolov
2 Jul 12 at 5:48 pm
you are right Maria! exercise visualisations do affect us – my subQuark was on the Canadian Olympic Fencing Team way back and they did something like an hour of guided visualisation per week and that was like 30 years ago!
Ener Hax
2 Jul 12 at 6:23 pm
sculpties & animations are in short supply.
Sarge Misfit
2 Jul 12 at 8:20 pm
I agree more animations are needed including better dance sequences such as Belly dance and Burlesque. There are odd single routines but we need sets of routines for particular types of dance. More general posses needed too since there are a huge number of possible actions from chopping wood to doing the ironing.
Gaga
2 Jul 12 at 8:30 pm
OpenSim needs a viewer based keyword search function (linked to “show in search” or some other method) to catalog the vast content already out there.
OpenSim needs a method for the creators of content to list and display what they have on the web, and exactly where to get it inworld.
Lani Global
2 Jul 12 at 11:47 pm
In the “need more sit poses” category… those of us who create animations and sit objects withdrew it from our stores when the opensim sit target position was changed (it broke the position). It may take another year for that level of creativity to rise again… time enough for creators to forget that experience :)
Lani Global
2 Jul 12 at 11:54 pm
I think I have to agree with Lani on this one..to be honest, people complain a LOT that Opensim doesn’t have content..and it’s really not true. Opensim has a degree of difficulty above that of some other platforms, we all know this – I’m not arguing the fact that it gets easier all the time. Still, as a result of that particular barrier to entry, most of the population of Opensim still falls in the creative demographic. Within that demographic – as it’s always been – if we want or need something, we make it. If we don’t know how to make it, we learn how. This is one of the things that makes Opensim the perfect choice at this time for those of us who fall into that population.
As I’m a coder by trade, the content I’d naturally like to see is some advancement in the engines, particularly scripting. I’d also like to see real progress on the http_server functionality to allow better integrated communication. I think the best thing to be done about content is to make better content possible. This will cause the population of Opensim to create more and better inworld content.
ELQ
3 Jul 12 at 7:57 am
Required:
1x Chez reine de Patate, fourgonette de Poutine.
1x Queen Potato, Poutine Truck.
also
1x “Beaver Tails” mobile trailer. (http://www.beavertails.ca/)
WhiteStar
3 Jul 12 at 2:26 pm
Physics, to be possible to cross sims with not wearable vehicles!
All the rest can be found already and Open sims Allows more, like Npc’s and most of all, to hose easy a region or several without spending a single dime!
But a physic engine that allows to drive or sail would be the turning point.
ZZ Bottom
4 Jul 12 at 9:19 am
@Maria
“I would like to see more exercise animations — I want to get in shape the easy way, through virtual exercise!”
I agree. Not just for fitness, but there could be a lot of use for this in rehabilitation from injury and illness as well. SoaS could be used to give patients a visualisation tool to guide them through physiotherapy exercises.
Paul
4 Jul 12 at 10:18 pm
Here are some exercises for Maria:
http://bit.ly/NDkFjn
… and for everyone else, who needs something like this :-)
Motion capture is made by carnegie mellon (?), changed with DAZ 3D and QAvimator.
Beacara
5 Jul 12 at 11:37 am
A slap fight for Nebadon:
http://bit.ly/LTjYH1
Sorry, he is just slapping himself or some nasty flies?
:-)
Beacara
6 Jul 12 at 10:44 am
lol Beacara! i grabbed both of your files, thanks! =)
Ener Hax
7 Jul 12 at 9:36 am
CMU mocap database http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/
Graham Mills
8 Jul 12 at 9:09 am
Dance Animation it’s an obstacle to attract new ppl
We have a great setup already in a private Grid, but there isn’t interest without the power of joy and interaction, who a sequence of dances can give (in a dance party for example).
Matina Preis
3 May 13 at 4:49 am
When I refer to dance animation, I mean REAL, SERIOUS, PROFESSIONAL work in animations, like those dance animations we loved from “Sinewave” in SL, all these years for example.
Those bvh files, that we can find free in the net are simply crap.
Animations must to have except MoCap equipment, talent, dance knowledge, art taste, correct timing and must be in a loop.
All those things can only be achieved from a real pro team, who knows and love virtual worlds.
Not from a professor or a students who doesn’t have a clue from dance.
Carnegie Melon it is for experimental purposes only, not for serious use in a Virtual World. (please stop refer to it, can’t stand to see this link everywhere we look).
Matina Preis
3 May 13 at 5:03 am
Matina, you may want to try to contact DreamWalker – she does a lot in OpenSim now and used to do some heavy duty dance scripting in Second Life
the only contact i have for her is via LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dreamwalker-mccallister/4a/1b/1b
Ener Hax
7 May 13 at 12:44 pm