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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

2015 HELP: WRITE: NPCs (Non-Player Characters): for video and stage productions. AMP notes

NPCs (Non-Player Characters): 
for video and stage productions
AMP notes
Updated 5/26/2015
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These are not avatars
  • They are Non-Player Characters (NPCs)
  • The look like avatars.
  • They animate and pose like avatars.
  • They are made from avatars.
  • They can be stand-ins for avatars.
  • They can be body-doubles for avatars.
  • The can even replace avatars if they don't have to talk or move a lot.
  •  For video production, they can cut the number of real people needed by 50% or more
  •  They use OSSL functions, only available in OpenSim Scripting Language.
  •  Fun With NPC's Tutorial 1
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If you are working in Opensim, this article tells you how to start using them
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

2015 HELP: WRITE: How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs

How to make dancing cows 
and other tales of the NPCs
Updated 7/6/2015
In the first tutorial Nara Malone shows how easy it is to set up an NPC (Non Player Character). In the second tutorial Nara shows how easy it is to set up an NPC (Non Player Character) pet which will follow you around.  In the third tutorial Nara shows how easy it is to change an NPC (Non Player Character) dance partner in the Paramour Clubmaster Dance Machine.

In this first tutorial Nara shows how easy it is to set up an NPC (Non Player Character).
  • The 'Easy NPC Kit' can be obtained from Nara's Nook Learning Lab:
  • HG address: Put line below in World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
  • world.narasnook.com:8900:Pandora
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

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
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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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  • Imagination is not the opposite of reality.  Imagination is the future of reality 
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News and Notes

SciFi Film Festival

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

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

2015 P2P: VID: The WIP show special, Fred Buckhusen tells about and demos his NPC controller

The WIP show special, Fred Buckhusen 
tells about and demos his NPC controller 
NPC's are Non-Playing Characters. They can look exactly like any avatar you can wear. You can animate them and, with the aid of the NPC controller, put them through a sequence of actions to execute a scene for a video capture or to greet an assist a visitor in a computer-presented story

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    Tuesday, November 29, 2016

    ***2016 PEOPLE: TECH: Konk Combat Game Builder, with NPC interactions. The Metaverse Tour investigates

    Konk Combat Game Builder, with NPC interactions. 
    The Metaverse Tour investigates
    In virtual worlds, you don't just play games.  You can build games to suit you.  Here is a report on game builder software that supports many common features of combat games: health and healing,  morality, fighting, etc.  And you can play the game by yourself or with your friends.  You can modify the theme--make it educational, if you want. 
    • Watch on YouTube 
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    • Go to Konk Combat Game Builder:  HG Address:
    • grid.kitely.com:8002:konk Role Play Sims 2
    • Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
    • Web address:  http://opensimworld.com/hop/75529-konk-Role-Play-Sims-2 
    • In Kitely, use the World Map to find and go to the sim: konk Role Play Sims 2
    • Buy the Game Builder system:  
    • Buy it: Konk Combat and Role PlayGame Builder System V1.5
    • Web site
    • Don't think of this just as a game of combat.  
    • Think how it could be used for other objectives such as education.  
    • Here, I speculate a bit.  All study is a quest.   
    • And some education is based on game principles such as challenge and winning the increments.  
    • Note: I speculate here about how a game like this could be designed for instruction.
    • The game system cited in this report might require major changes to function this way. 

    Skills and settings for touring the HG


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    Friday, October 26, 2018

    2018 EDU: Free Freebies by Graham Mills


    Free Freebies by Graham Mills

    Freebies of possible interest to educators.  Provided by Graham Mills OpenSim university educator and alumnus of many grids starting with SL in 2007.
    Liverpool-Manchester line

    Go there

    • WebLink (Discussion of contents)
    • HG address:
    • grid.kitely.com:8002:Stuff
    • Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
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    Tuesday, September 8, 2015

    2015 EDU: GAME: Puzzle pictures: Party game? Educational game? Mastery quiz? Quest?

    Puzzle pictures: Party game?  
    Educational game? Mastery quiz? Quest?
    A virtual world makes it fairly easy to create static scenes that depict things that are educationally important in some contexts.   Outside of school, people often like to answer quizzes. And people will pay money to solve mystery stories and to complete quests.  Could we use virtual worlds to make quizzes and quests for educational purposes?
    Historical scene
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    Learning objective

    Check your knowledge of history

    • What period is depicted here?
    • Who are the people sitting on the thrones?
    • What characters are out of place?
    • Are those large spotted cats out of place?
    • What is the bird on the banner?
    • What do the letters SPQR on the banner stand for?

    Check your internet search skills

    • If you don't know all the answers to the questions above:
    • Use any internet resources to find the answers.
    • Score yourself:  If you know all the answers, give yourself 100 points.
    • For every internet search you do, deduct 5 points. 
    • Use your internet smarts to design your search.
    • Use your powers of deduction to make the best use of what you find.
    • Some searches will answer more than one question.
    • Alternatively, you may be timed and get more credit for less time.
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      Epulaeryu Short Poetry Workshop-Tue, 9/8, 7pm SLT 

      This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents a new form – the Epulaeryu, which is a poetry form about food. This 7 line poem has 33 syllables in a structured layout ending in an exclamation point!

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        Monday, December 29, 2014

        2014 VIDEO: HELP: Preparing a video set. AMP notes

        Preparing a video set.  AMP notes
        • We make the mistakes so you don't have to
        Set with avatar positions marked
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        Requirements for a video set in prep for a scene: 

        • Matches script. 
        • The position of each character in the scene is marked 
        • with a character mark or a poseball.
        • Non-playing characters (NPCs) are placed as needed.
        • Set is dressed:  Set dresser
        • Outdoor shot sites have appropriate background.
        • Everything on the set has appropriate licensing.
        • Everything purchased has export perms (Kitely Market).
        • Everything is owned by a company officer and set to "Anyone can copy" (Kitely).
        • Set lighting is planned
        • Low lag.
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        Sunday, July 8, 2018

        2018 STAGE: The Bird Cage, Mzfelicia, and the Boy Toys (NPCs)


        The Bird Cage, Mzfelicia, 
        and the Boy Toys (NPCs)
        Report on a special event at The Birdcage, a new venue in OpenSim.Live.  The event features Non-Player Characters (NPCs) as dancers.
        • SingerGirl Mode and the Sidekickers
        • Guest Act: Mzfelicia Honeycomb and the BoyToys
        • HYPERGRID Address: grid.opensim.life:8002:the bird cage
        • Web Site
        • The Boy Toys are NPCs (Non-Playing Characters)
        • They look like avatars, but do not represent real people.
        • They can be programmed with animations to execute simple actions. 
        • Here they dance in synchrony with Mzfelicia Honeycomb.
        • NPCs are a feature available in OpenSim
        • Music is off in this video because of copyright issues.
        The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Elaine May, and starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest. Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 1978 Franco-Italian film La Cage aux Folles by Ã‰douard Molinaro starring Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi.   Wikipedia
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        Tuesday, August 19, 2014

        2014 MUSIC: VIDEO: OPENSIM: Dancing NPCs (Non Player Characters). And a Hypergrid warning

        Dancing NPCs (Non Player Characters)
         And a Hypergrid warning
        Scroll down for News and Notes (including articles about new TOS)
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        The High Side of the Low Life, by TrueLie Telling
        Truelie Telling is a  regular performer at The Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast
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        NPC Bots

        • All the actors featured are scripted NPC ( Non Player Character ) bots
        • How to get NPC maker
        • The NPC maker in the article above will duplicate the avatar that clicks on it
        • and will animate the clone with an animation in the maker's contents.
        The NPC Maker uses the function: osNpcCreate.  This function is marked as high threat and appears to have some undocumented limitations on who can use it in a particular sim.  It seems that use is limited to the sim owner and some others with high level authority in the owning group or in the sim.
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        Friday, February 17, 2017

        2017 PEOPLE: BIZ: New NonProfit Commons Community: a Collaborative Model. By WisdomSeeker

        New NonProfit Commons Community (NPC): 
        Collaborative Model. 
        Invited article by WisdomSeeker for 
        Nonprofit Commons
        NonProfit Commons is a long-established community in virtual worlds.  It has served as a focal point for gathering nonprofit organizations and helping them to share information and experience.  It is now preparing to reorganize and is considering alternative organizations.

        Possible collaborative models
        LaPiana’s Collaborative Map
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        What is a Collaborative Model? 

        There are many ways we, as separate individuals and organizations, can join together under an umbrella that will benefit us all. Here I offer some ideas for the groundwork to consider as we move forward.
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        Tuesday, June 2, 2015

        2015 HOBBIES: NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim. Report from the HG Safari

        NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim.  
        Report from the HG Safari
        Every Wednesday, the Hypergrid Safari travels to some interesting place on the hypergrid.  Usually there is someone present to talk about the special things at that location.  This time, Nara Malone demonstrated the new features (of NPCs and Holoscenes) available for creating immersive stories in virtual worlds.  
        Dancing cows (NPCs*) and avatars
        On HG Safari
        Thanks to E. Twinklens

        *NPCs=non-player characters

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        • HG grid address:  world.narasnook.com:8900
        • To Series from narasnook grid 
        • hop://world.narasnook.com:8900/Series/126/140/22
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        News and Notes

        Genre-Gossip Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 6/2, 7pm SLT 

        This week at the Short Poetry Workshop Arabella Nemeth is guest host for the Genre-Gossip workshop where we’ll explore how to extend our use of language by imitating a genre from other media, such as books, movies, or everyday language use. In this workshop, we will write poetry based on gossip. Join us as we learn, write and spread the gossip. 

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          • Hypergate WIP Show  Next show: June 5, noon PacificTime
          • Roxy Roller: Next Show: Tues 6/2, 11 am Pacific time
          • grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
          • 11 am Matthew Broyles; Noon, Joe Rizzo


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