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Hi, my name is V, and it is Friday.

This means two things: First, I am new here. I hail from TGIB, where I have been offering my creations for download and use in any grid for a while now. Second, I have contacted rexxed and got the nice invitation to post my creations here as well, so I aim to add something every Friday, starting now.

Before we get to these, let me start off on a tangent first. I’ve been a SL user for more than three years, and have been very excited about it right from the start. I had good times, and bad times, I met my partner there and had been running a small shop, but mainly was minding my own business and built blissfully away at odd things that caught my interest.

There have been a series of events – far too numerous to mention here – that, step by step, drove me away from SL, and made me look for alternatives. It was not before long that I discovered the OpenSim project, and the possibilities that it offered made me overthink some of my convictions. I spent too much time, thinking about business, licenses, fees, copyright and related issues, and in the end, I figured that it really didn’t matter to me. I didn’t want to make a business out of this. I just wanted to create things, and share them with others.

Thus, I settled with Creative Commons. All creations I publish – here, at TGIB, or anywhere else – are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license. This basically means, you can do anyting with them, especially copy, share, distribute, change and use them on any grid, for any purpose, as long as you state me as the original creator if you pass them along. (“by V of tgib.co.uk” is entirely sufficient). I don’t expect anything in return, even though you can flattr me, if you like. Most of all, though, I want you to have fun with what I make.

So, for a start, I have something exclusive for rexxed readers: My very first clothes, which I made for my opening party on OSGrid. They have been available at that single event only, and are now here for you to download:

For the men: Ever 01 Opening Pants, Ever 01 Opening Shirt

For the women: Ever 01 Opening Dress Top, Ever 01 Opening Dress Bottom

Please note that the female dress requires a pseudo-skirt (a cylinder or similar prim attached to the pelvis) that needs the source dress texture (or simply use the xml file for import) to make the dress look more ‘natural’.

As a bonus, I made a little futuristic belt to go along with the dress.

I’m using the Imprudence Viewer for exporting things, so for instructions on how to import these files, please see my small tutorial. Also, no textures were hurt in making this belt.

See you next, Friday.

V

realXtend has provided free hosting for your avatar for some time now, but it may not be very widely known. You can host your avatar shape, clothes, textures for free at realXtend project’s servers.

Use Avatar creation tool from the realXtend client software to save your stuff there. You can then use the account to access any realXtend world. This means that your avatar will travel with you from world to world, unchanged. Note: World server admins can override your avatar – this feature is meant to preserve world theme – for example in Ants world all the avatars may need to be ants.

Service provider: realXtend

Click the picture above to download also the Jaana Avatar model – you can use it with the free account! If you want to generate your avatar from a photo, follow the instructions in the Maxping article where Sylvester Stallone avatar was created as an example.

License: Use at your own risk.

Go and get the free account here.

Textures for all seasons and all uses. Find fabric, fashion, floor tiles, glass, stone and more. Replace your worn out and tired textures or discover new patterns here. Suitable for realXtend, Second Life and Opensim – at least. Found this excellent package from the Second Life community pages.

Download the package here (10Mb)

License: Public domain

This is already an old package from Torley, but still very much valid. Contains over 600 awesome textures – and the best thing here is that you are free to use them on your commercial products. Torley wishes you don’t sell them to anyone as is. Here’s the original blog entry link.

Author: Torley

(Image from the original blog post)

Download the textures here.

License: Public domain

Get your hands on loads of free scripts that you can copy-hack-paste to Opensim, realXtend or naturally, back to Second Life!

http://www.freeslscripts.gendersquare.org/

Example scripts:

• Flickr Screen to show off your flickr photofeed
• Presentation – Slide show script
• CNN RSS Feed (change to your rss feed url easily!)
• … and much more!

by @FreeSLscripts

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rexxed.com offers a free service to play your MP3 files which are located somewhere on the web. Any web browser should be able to play them and you can embed the player to your web pages or blog entries.

The player is located at http://www.rexxed.com/services/musicplayer/xspf_player.swf

And it can be used to play playlist files. For example http://www.rexxed.com/services/musicplayer/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=metal.xspf&autoplay=true&repeat_playlist=true

Where parameters are:

playlist_url = web address to the playlist, can be for example http://yourserver.com/music/mybest.xspf

autoplay = true or false, says whether the music starts to play automatically or if it waits for the user to press play

repeat_playlist = true or false

xspf file format is really simple, take a look at how the files can be written. Here is the full documentation of the music player. Here is the article at Maxping, where you can find out how to play music with this service at your realXtend virtual world.

Sketchworlds, the first realXtend hosting provider (see Maxping.org article about the Sketchworlds launch), made a new version of the official realXtend viewer. The new Sketchworlds viewer contains some usability tweaks, daylight improvements and cleaned up menus. The viewer can connect to Opensim, realXtend and Second Life.

Author: realxtend, Sketchworlds

Platforms: Windows, can be used for Opensim, realXtend and Second Life

Download sketchworlds.exe here.

License: GPL

Use this script to define a new skybox, set light conditions, fix the sun position and avatar landing coordinates upon arrival. A must have for every realxtender.

Author: realxtend, Jani Pirkola

Platforms: tested realxtend 0.4

Download the zipped scripts here maxping_rexscripts. Unzip to Python folder at the server, see tutorial http://www.maxping.org/virtual-life/other/fresh-look-for-your-realxtend-world.aspx

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Free your mind under the blue sky. This one is designed to create an inspiring and easy to breathe atmosphere for your virtual meetings. To be used together with huge pillar terrain.

Author: Worldforge, Modified for realXtend by Jani Pirkola

Platforms: Ogre3D, realxtend, worldforge

License: Dual GPL, FDL (Free documentation license) read the license text here

Download the skybox mountain ring here.

Magnificent mountains all around you in this beautiful skybox. Sun is included in a fixed location, so time is fixed too. Instructions how to take the new skybox into use can be found from realXtend wiki. FDL license allows inclusion also in commercial products for free with some special conditions – see here.

Author: Original by Worldforge, modified for realxtend by Jani Pirkola

Platforms: tested with realxtend 0.4

License: Dual GPL, FDL (Free documentation license) read the license text here

Download zipped png files here grey_mountains_day

It is snowing. This is a sim sized snowing effect for your realXtend virtual world. The particle script is a text file so it is rather easy to tweak to fit your needs. Read the instructions from a Maxping article.

Author: Maxping Magazine

Platforms: realXtend, OGRE3D

Download the script file here. (right-click and save-as)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Sorry that you needed to wait for this one. Here’s the Opensim script load test oar file. Read the article about this test from Maxping.

Author: Ralf

The File contains region´s prepared for load test, several people used for comparing results, so it´s about the best standard at the moment.

Contains .oar with 56 huge sculpts, 1.000/1.0000 prim and 250/500/625/750/1.000/2.000 scripted prims (LSL).

Download the oar file here.

Platform: Opensim, Modrex

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Some realXtend demo videos feature rather heavy background music. Here is the whole CD. Can be used as a music at your (heavy) virtual world.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

If you download the official realXtend 0.4 server, you get the great game “Beneath the Waves” as a bonus. When you want to start building your own realXtend world, you’ll need a bit more basic world, but loaded with all the assets in your inventory.

Authors: Opensim, realXtend, Maxping

Here it is after some terraforming and planting trees.

Here you go, grab it here: 0.4 Builder ready, flat land, assets preloaded 

And don’t forget to get some terrain files here!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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