OpenSim versus Google Earth

This is a random walk through a 40-region OpenSim standalone simulator.
OpenSim was run on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64, with OpenSim svn r5411. The latest Second Life client (1.20.15) was used, and captured with FRAPS.

This clip is not intended to be very interesting, although for those who are working on their own OpenSim regions, it might be somewhat diagnostic of what happens with 40 regions and 2560 total prims runs on one dedicated public-facing server. (Let the LAG out)

OK, seriously OpenSim does not have the rich smoothness of the Google Earth client. On the other hand, Second Life client does a much better job of enabling interior design--and this clip is a rush of today's first run through the UC Berkeley campus. Emphasis here is on 'rush' in the sense of unedited video roll, and "rush" as in getting through the sim faster than the textures could download from the server. The prolate spheroids are Second Life sculptie prims that have received their texture image but not yet their NURB bump-map. They rez into terrain- and tree-hugging form if one stays still long enough.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• UC
• Berkeley
• OpenSim
• Second_Life
• Google
• Earth

[Rocky1138]

Have you released the source to allow you to easily pull in Google Earth data to OpenSim? It'd be awesome to play with!

[DarbDabney]

@Rocky1138 - I only wish that I could have something like that! The technique for getting Google Earth-like data into OpenSim is somewhat painful and tedious, using commercial off-the-shelf ESRI ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine to get it all done. If I'd written something to bring Earth into OpenSim, I could be proud. As it is, I'm just tired!

[jrovalleb]

es increible lo que se puede hacer en opensim, como consigo el programa me gustaria un mi mundo virtual en mi PC

[DarbDabney]

Thanks, it really is cool to have a real-world based virtual world, mirroring a familiar space (at some scale) on what is basically a good workstation-class machine.

[oposumfan1]

I have downloded it, but i dont know how to intall it can you please help me explainig me step by step how to install it once that I have uncompressed it because the file was in .zip

[johnphoenix20009]

Hey, Iamjust starting m7y adventures with OpenSim, is there a way i can get a copy of this UC Berkley campus to run on my machine locally? i want to see all the full renderings and test how they run locally on my machine.

This would give me an idea of how my world will run when I finish building my virtual world for my in house home network.

Thanks!

[shavkatcool]

Wow. That's cool. I'm very intereested in this.

Can you give information on how you imported GoogleEarth terrains into OpenSim. Step by step if possible. Tnxs