2015 OPENSIM: Bulletsim: One Prim Mesh Racetrack for a 2048 Opensim Variable Region

One Prim Mesh Racetrack for a 
2048 Opensim Variable Region
Updated 2/10/2015

An aerial and driver's view of the the entire 1 piece 1 prim mesh racetrack sitting on top of a 2048x2048 var region. It is an exact replica of the Autopolis International Racetrack in Japan.

• Watch on YouTube
• Using BulletSim PE

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• The track is at HG URL: 
• ingen-lab.com:8002:2048Flat 

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• Scroll down for News and Notes
• The 8th Annual VWBPE conference calls for proposals
• VWBPE deadline extended to Jan, 14, 2015
• Events in Virtual worlds. Selected Google calendars
• Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Other articles related to BulletSim

OpenSimulator is shifting to the BulletSim physics engine.  There is disagreement as to whether BulletSim is now ready for general use or not.  The latest version of OpenSimulator makes BulletSim the default physics engine, but allows optional use of ODE, the physics engine previously used in OpenSimulator.  
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Kitely continues to use BulletSim as the default, but allows BulletSim as an option.  New Media Arts, the group I work with is using BulletSim.  We made that choice initially because BulletSim is the future and ODE is the past.  We have since noted that it resolved some previous problems.
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I believe the preferred physics engine will depend on the particular things it has to do.  Since I don't know enough to have an opinion, I am posting video examples of BulletSim supporting movement that may challenge its capabilities.    

• Bulletsim: Simulated KEVA builds collapsing in slow motion
• iTEC A10 Warthog Weapons & HUD Testing. Physics engine: BulletSim PE
• Vehicles in Opensim. Bulletsim Physics. Region Crossing, flying
• Jetbike for Opensim 0.8.x and BulletSim PE

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News and Notes

Events 

Tentative January schedule at Wizards Retreat (Kitely)

• TBA - Monday, January 12th & 26th - 5 & 6PM PST
• Frederico Botelho aka "Bohemian" - Tuesday, January 13th & 27th 12PM PST
• Ciske Crumb - Tuesday, January 13 & 27th 1PM PST
• Echo Starship - Thursday Jan. 15th 12PM
Deceptions Digital --1PM PST Thursday, January 15th

• Morlita Quan - Monday Jan 26th 1PM PST
• SingerGirl - TBD
• Effinjay - Saturday Jan 31st at 12PM PST
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Thyilea   
• Web address: http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Roxy-Gellar/Thyilea
• Firestorm Hop:  hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Thyilea/59/386/24  

Hypergrid

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

Lauren's Place

• Lauren's place, Tuesdays, 5 pm California time 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/124/241/22
• Watch later: Lauren's channel  

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Take great online courses from the world's best universities
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
• Learning Objectives Creator

Writers

• Greyville Writer's Colony

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again in couple of minutes.  Sometimes the first try fails (probably times out).  And try again a few hours later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day. 

• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm
• If you get an address like this: 
• hg.francogrid.org:80:Residence-09:/119/128/190 
• paste it into the address bar of Firestorm, see if it takes you to the exact coordinates.

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second Life or Kitely
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