2015 HELP: HG: Pandora, an NPC learning lab. An NPC is a body double for an avatar

Pandora, an NPC learning lab
An NPC is a body double for an avatar
Used for video production and immersive stories

Non-Player Characters (NPCs)  are made as duplicates of avatars.  They can be animated to duplicate animated actions of avatars.  They are of particular value for making videos, where they can be used in many scenes in place of the duplicated avatar.  They are also of value in immersive stories, where they can appear characters in the stories.  NPCs can be created and used in OpenSim, not Second Life

NPC kits at Pandora

• Get your NPC kits here.
• How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
• Pandora HG address
• Paste the line below into the World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• world.narasnook.com:8900:Pandora
• Subscribe to Nina's YouTube channel to get tutorials as they are released. 

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• Tutorials
• Examples of uses
• Immersive and Interactive Stories
• Role-play as story
• Stories move to multi-media
• The story returns to the people
• OSSL functions and threat level restrictions

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• (More after the break)
• Imagination is not the opposite of reality.  Imagination is the future of reality 

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News and Notes

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Regular submissions Midnight – 1 August 2015
• Deadline for Late Submissions Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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Marching NPCs as Jazz band

Tutorials

• How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
• Fun With NPC's tutorial 4 
• Fun With NPC's tutorial 5
• Fun with NPC's tutorial 6 (Builder's Buddy)
• Fun With NPC's tutorial 7
• Fun with NPC's tutorial 8

The fire-dancer dancer dances tirelessly

• And flawlesly
• Because he is an NPC

Examples of uses

• NPCs (Non-Player Characters): for video and stage productions. 
• AMP: Non-player Character (NPC) No avateers were used in this video.
• Private dancer. Non-player Character (NPC) No avateers in this video
• Dancing NPCs (Non-Player Characters)
• LetsDance - OpenSimulator NPCs and animations
• NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim. Report from the HG Safari

Role-play as story

• Role Playing and Communal Story Building
• RoleplayStories
• How to roleplay
• Top RP sites

That is an NPC beside me

PMAC Demo bench  

• PARAMOUR MULTI-ANIMATION CONTROLLER (PMAC) v1.

Solve a code story

• This story used to need a detective.
• Now you are the detective.

Instructions for an interactive story

Immersive and Interactive Stories

• What's the Story with Immersive Storytelling?
• Storycode
• Tinker & the Steampunkables, an interactive story
• Interactive stories online
• Interactive storytelling (Wikipedia)

Stories move to multi-media

• If you can talk, you can tell a story.
• If you can type, you can write a story.
• If you can handle mp3 files, you can put music and sound effects on a story
• If you can handle jpg files, you can add pictures to your story.
• If you can handle video capture and editing, you can show your story.
• If you can build a 3D world, you can let the audience be part of your story.
• A 3D build can let your audience see what you see in your head.  
• Maybe it will help you in writing, too

The story returns to the public

• In the age of the printing press and movie production, 
• stories came from publishers and movie producers.
• They had the presses and the cameras
• In the digital age, stories belong to the people
• We have the computers and the internet.
• We can tell our stories with the vast capabilities these offer--
• If we know how to use those capabilities.

Interactive flash fiction

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OSSL functions and threat level restrictions

• Scripts for creating and managing NPCs use OSSL functions with restricted use.
• Here is what you need to know about the restricted use:
• OPENSIM: OSSL adds functions to LSL: threat levels control misuse

News and Notes

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• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory  
• OpenSimWorld: upcoming events
• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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