March 31,2012
An interesting question was asked earlier this morning on Ener Hax's blog by Xpontaneous which was
"… Can I connect an Aurora to Osgrid … ?"
I didn't see why not, though it would depend on how AuroraSim and OpenSim handle the information between them. Well, I went to the source, the AuroraSim developers themselves. I logged into the #aurora-dev IRC channel and asked.
"[12:49] I’ve got what I think is an interesting question. Can an AuroraSim instance hosted on my computer connect to and join an OpenSim grid, such as OSG? I don’t mean using HyperGrid, I mean join the grid itself, becoming one of their regions.
[12:49] yes"
Now, how you do it is another thing, one I will leave for others to work through until I can improve my own skills. But I will go through the configurations and see if I can find a few paths to follow.
Rev and others were connecting Aurora to OSgrid in the early releases but, at some point, it was stopped and from what I remember they said the incompatibilities were to great now to continue.
Gaga
Too bad. Though I've looked through the various .ini files and the configurations are still there. Perhaps this is something for them to return their attentions too. I think this would go a very long way towards the general acceptance and adoption of AuroraSim.
We were considering it in the begining Cyber Wrld, my grid. But we didn't use it do to hypergrid is broken, and a few other odds and ends. We do see a bright future for aurora-sim and a possibility to move to it, but not ready for what we want out of it just yet. When HyperGrid gets fixed for Aurora, we may start looking back into it.
Hi Timothy,
Inter-grid travel is something that is crucial to the future of the metaverse, especially to the development of a metaverse-wide economy. Currently, HyperGrid is what people use, and though AuroraSim has a HG module,it also has its own version, InterWorld Communication, or IWC. I have no idea how stable it is or anything else, though. There simply are not enough AuroraSim grids to determine that. I look forward to the day when we have that, a method of traveling from grid to grid across a metaverse that includes OpenSim, AuroraSim and any other fork or variation of those.
In the meantime, keep an eye out here regarding how well an AuroraSim grid can run. Created Worlds is currently converting from OpenSim to AuroraSim and I'll be diving in and writing about it as soon as they've enabled logins again.
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