Hello community. I am a newbie developer wanting to get involved. Here is a little about me and maybe you can direct me to how I can best get involved and who I should contact that has common interests and goals. Thanks So much!
My Experience: I have been around the Metaverse off and on over the last 5 years. Second Life: I was very active in Second Life for a couple of years with a number of avatars. I opened and ran a series of Stores. Did a lot of content creation associated with Clothes and Costumes. I was an artist showing some of my digital art at a number of galleries. I ran art shows. Ran a couple of game shows on a weekly basis at the Shelter. I am a musician, so, I started performing music in Second Life, as well. I probably did 50 or so concerts. I was a team captain for a Relay for Life Team. I did a lot of LSL scripting. I did machinima which you can see on You Tube. So, in general I immersed my self on Second Life and then got totally and utterly burned out on it all and left. The last set of things I wrote was software that would port models out of Second Life and save them into Blender as Wavefront .obj models. Multiverse: I then spent part of a year playing with the Multiverse MMORPG software for creating on-line games that are like World of Warcraft. The Multiverse platform is very new and uses Python, Java and OGRE which I know how to program in. I get very involved in the forums and building content and importers to move 3D models into the Multiverse platform. This included an improved Character Selection Section and converting 2600 Animations from the Carnegie Mellon University Human Motion Study Library into BVH format. I had a website called MINDIES (Metaverse Independent Developers) for a while where I tried to generate interest in the work I was doing. I extended my Content Pipeline to move models from Second Life into the Multiverse product. I also did a lot of documentation in the developer wiki. To get a better idea at the things I worked on you can see the tutorials at: http://update.multiverse.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/LightninBoySnook I stopped working on this as the platform still had a long way to go before it was marketable and I found that I really didn't want to create a game, but, I was more interested in 3D modeling and world creation and hence the move to Poser and Vue. I have spent the last 18 months just doing digital art in Hexagon, Blender, Poser and Vue. You can see my gallery at Renderosity at http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=454346 or check out some my work at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mojoDallas I am now ready to move on from this as well. You can only do so many portraits, architecture vizs and landscapes. I then looked back on line to see what was going on in the Second Life community and decided to get up to speed on OpenSim and then came across Realxtend. I would like to get involved in the content pipeline portion of this project as it is an area I have spent a lot of time working on and it also addresses my need for creativity. If anyone has ideas of how to get involved please let me know. Again thanks for taking a look. -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
