2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: OpenSim Traveller badge: Knowledge base. What you need to know to be a world traveller in SceneGate. Travelling the Hypergrid.

World Traveller Badge: Knowledge Base (KB).  
What you need to know 
to be a world traveller in SceneGate.
Travelling the Hypergrid.

A collection of information you need to travel the Hypergrid easily and to teach others how to travel the Hypergrid.  Specifies the knowledge expected of one who holds a DTA World Traveller Badge.

Places panel

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A DTA badge page

• This page has the information we think people need to travel the Hypergrid with SceneGate.
• It will be updated as needed

What is the Hypergrid?

• A grid of grids.  A lot of OpenSim grids connected so you can travel from one to another.
• Like a national highway system connects cities.  But much faster.
• You just teleport.  May take nearly a minute.  
• Key terms: region. hypergrid address, suitcase, places panel 

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

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OpenSim traveller skills

You need these skills to start

• Basic skills needed for attending a meeting or class in a virtual world.
• Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page
• Ingrid (within a grid) Travel tips for OpenSimulator . A DTA content page
• Understand HG limits: Testing HG addresses and address forms. Failure is not forever

What is a region?

• And how is it different from a sim?
• The name sim is short for simulator, a program simulating some land.
• That land used to be a plot 256 x 256 meters (about 840 feet on a side).
• OpemSim can put a much larger area on a single simulator.
• An area run by a single simulator still has a single address on its grid.
• That is called a region; the size can vary from 256x256 meters up. 

Hypergrid address

• A hypergrid address looks like this: grid.kitely.com:8002:Marian Island
• To travel, put the HG address into the Find bar of the world man, click Find, TP

You carry things in your suitcase

• It is in your inventory and has folders matching your inventory.
• On your HG travels, you can only access things in your suitcase.
• You can put only exportable things in your suitcase
• Anything you get on the Hypergrid goes into your suitcase.  
• You probably want to unpack your suitcase when you get back to your home grid.
• And a big suitcase may slow your HG travel

Take a landmark in your grid

• Click Places button (globe graphic, right side)
• In Places panel, click + sign to add something.
• From drop-down menu, click Landmark.
• In Create Landmark panel, click left pointer (<).
• In Places panel note the name of the new landmark (boxed),
• If you will not easily recognize the name, right click and click rename.
• Give a name that will identify the place for you later. 
• Some places with be named your parcel.  Change that to a distinct name.

Take a landmark on Hypergrid travel

• Follow the instructions above for taking a landmark in your grid.
• The landmark will go into your suitcase.
• You probably want to copy it to your places folder.

Get the HG address of a region

• In Kitely, find the region in Explore Worlds: look under Hypergrid Address.
• Elsewhere, you may find it in OpenSimWorld.
• Or you may have to ask the region owner.

Invite or request hypergrid teleport 

• Request TP is not yet working in Hypergrid (TBD)
• Find the name in the people panel, right click, chose the desired option.

Handle many HG-related problems

• Items will be added here as they are identified.
• Landmarks embedded in a notecard can't be accessed on another qrid.
• Go to the grid where the notecard was made; click each landmark, copy it to inventory.
• TBD

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• Selby Evans in Kitely and hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.