The Troppo team Simone April and Robb together with Krank’s Explosive Concerts team will entertain us with a Bon Jovi Concert on the 4th o September at 3pm SLT. If you are in Aussie land 8am Sunday the 5th, Bon Jovi at 8am on a Sunday is just perfect.
Krank it up 
Served with short black, croissant, whipped cream and strawberry jam. Get your sweet self to the Club and start the Sunday the right way . Rock On
The Troppo Yacht Cub is slowly growing prim by prim. The marina part is mostly finished, we have plenty of space for further expansion if we need to. The outside of the Club building is partly finished the bar area and interior decorations still to come
Troppo Yacht Club
More photos here
Diva wifi Create account
Yesterday I updated the Troppo Club 3×3 Diva distro from the 0.6.9 version to the 0.7.
It all went smoothly this major update feels like a milestone in a journey that for me began some 20 months back when I first set my foot in Opensim.
The latest version of Imprudence was also available so I tested the two together it felt like an early Christmas gift
As you know I have been experimenting with lighting in opensim with various viewers. The shading has been there for some time and some viewers can even do projected texture (light) I can’t get the projected texture to work in Imprudence at the moment but the shadows when enabled are there. The short clip will show what is possible with Diva distro and Imprudence today. A big thank you to the Opensim development team you guys really do some amazing work.
The way the Diva distro “update” works is wonderfully easy. The new wifi create account worked right out of the box not the slightest hiccup wow. The Diva distro comes with the new Hypergrid 1.5 protocol a more secure version than the older 1.0. Yes the new Hypergrid did work as well, I went for a small tour to The University of Edinburgh and Jez place at Rhiga the only two addresses I had at hand. thank you both for letting me visit. I feel that Hypergrid is one of the corner stones in Opensim It is the way we can interact, it is possible for a standalone one region to be part of a larger community (web, grid what ever you like to call it) So what are you waiting for? Start a 3D place of your own! Opensim and Diva distro will catapult you in to the 3D world at great speed. Welcome aboard to lots of fun in the 3D world.
I have been using Imprudence and Kirstens viewer in opensim for some time. Kirstens viewer is what I use for video and photos. I use the S19 viewers with shadows enabled. The latest build is a little shack in Troppo Club a 3×3 Diva distro grid. Shadows and the way a viewer handles light is fun and challenging and way different to photography in RL. The ability to control the time of day and East angle of sun and moon light is handy, in Opensim this works really well. Add that light (lets call it natural light) together with projected light (works in Kirstens but not in imprudence yet )and you have a big say in how your video or photo will look. Projected light is light from a prim but unlike “a prim like a light” only projects light from one face of the prim (my understanding of it) you can give that face a texture say a circle and that will then become a spotlight. I will show some photos from the project I am working on right now in the next post to explain more.
Here are some photos of the latest build to show what Kirstens and Imprudence can do. The photos with fake shadows (shadows on a prim still hanging around ) are Imprudence the others are Kirstens no projected light was used in the photos this time.
Troppo Club Radio shack
The Great Gig in the Sky
It was an amazing 4th of July Party! The Troppo team ( headed by April) together with Sharkskull Baxton and his Angels. As one they made use of virtual worlds best assets it was just breathtakingly beautiful. The light show that Sharkskull and his team put together (pardon the pun)was out of this world. The cleverly choreographed show was delightfull to watch. This event will live in our minds, the Avatars that danced with the stars will take with them lasting memories of an outstanding 2010 4th of July party. Thank you, thank you, thank you….. photos
ANGELS SET THE CONTROL FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN This is a great chance for SL to experience for the first time the magnificent light and particle works of Sharskull Baxton and his Angels … dancing live in outerspace. This amazing show is brought to you by SN Rock & Blues Club Troppo. DJ WAYKOOL will present a superb Pink Floyd playlist and we will be dancing among the stars at TROPPO SPACE PORT…
SN ROCK & BLUES CLUB TROPPO the hippiest rock&blues club and SL Showcase for prime music and entertainment destination ..You are invited… by Simone Nurmi, April Towton, Robbert Sands, and Sharkscull Baxton.
This is is a cool way to drive a ball round the office. The phone of cause has all the goodies inside it to send the message to the ball to turn and change direction and so on….
Is this a way to control our Opensim and SL Avatars. Could the phone act like a mouse, it’s already on the network via wifi ?? Could it mimic my movements and relay it to my Avatar mmmmm…
Some Clips are just better than others
More and more Avatars are going Troppo It’s understandable Going Troppo is an Avatar sort of thing to do. A mix of constant SL sun PinaColadas and hard SN Rock& Blues makes people a bit Troppo. What are the symptoms? A lackadaisic way of behaviour, no care attitude, increased alcohol intake arms and legs moving in a dance sort of manner shouts of Bundy, Beer and give me more a sure sign of Gone Troppo. This symptom is often found around the SN Rock&Blues Club in Troppo . Dont Fret “The lost band of Troppos” are looking after you feeding you a stream of Rock , Blues and Explosive Concerts after all going Troppo is a highly desirable thing to do. Go Troppo on the 26th of June 4pm PDT. Scorpions will Rock you. Simone April and the crew will feed you all sorts of Troppo. The Band will play and you be screaming for Bundy and Beer…….. “Going Troppo is all about pleasure and Cheers”…..
