The Continent of Avatria

The surface of Avatrian's OpenSim grid is dominated by a cluster of 9 sim contiguous regions that we call the continent of Avatria. Primordial, expansive, raw and untouched are words that best describe its current state. This machinima documents this early stage of the continent to serve as a reference point since the continent and our whole grid itself will undergo rapid transformation in the coming weeks and months.




To create the terrain for Avatria, we modified an existing single-region .raw terrain file and adjusted it to mesh for the much larger territory of the continent. 256x256 meters have given way to a landmass of 768x768. In addition to the mainland, several free standing islands, Machitopia and Amalgam, already exist in our grid. More regions will go online in the next few weeks as some of our full sim projects get migrated from SL. Access to our grid is still restricted and by-invite only at the moment. But, we will open the grid to the general public before 2010.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Avatrian
• OpenSim
• metaverse
• virtual world
• grid
• continent
• landmass
• Machitopia
• machinima
• explore
• space
• island
• terrain
• trailer
• feature.

[MachitopiaStudio]

Hi jabbaah, thanks for the feedback.  We have been creating continents, megaregions and standalone islands in Avatrian's OS grid since it started. Next thing to try is a hypergrid. So many options in the OpenSim platform. We are happy at its state though...and speedy progress. I have to check out your Annuna sims. We have an island in the OSgrid too.

[MachitopiaStudio]

Thanks Bettina. OpenSim has come a long way. Your invitation is forthcoming.

[jabbaah]

Seems to be a megaregion? Did not know that it is possible to combine even 9 sims to one single megaregion - until now I only saw "quad-sims". But they all reside on the same server, don't they?

Our Annuna sims reside in OSgrid, guess I will have to try out this megaregion stuff, too - looks absolutely awesome.

Good job forming the continent!

[Bettinatizzy]

I await my invite with breathless anticipation.