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
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 upcoming Concerts @ Troppo SN Rock&Blues Club
Janis Joplin June 29 6pm PDT
Scorpions June 26 4pm PDT
For the last 3 months or so we have been working on our new Grid. We made a decision to scale down our presence in SecondLife Why?
Many reasons Zonja Capalini has an excellent post about a very similar situation, I could not express it better myself so please read and thank you Zonja 
OpenSim can offer us what we been looking for in SL but could not find, a guest account, backup system, hypergrid, private server a way to be in charge of what we do.
I am fully aware of the shortcomings OpenSim has at the moment however Troppo Grid has been surprisingly stable and so far I have nothing but praise and admiration for the OpenSim development team the progress in the last 3 months just amazing… Maybe because Troppo Grid only has 9 regions and at the moment has two servers looking after its existence it works so well (and I like to add at a cost less than half of One SL region). We are looking to develop small Grids servicing the Real Estate and building Industry working as a marketing and selling tool, the Grid’s all connecting via hypergrid technology. The final product working much like the 2D net as we know and use today. Oh and I forgot to say we are having plenty of fun putting all this together thank you all for helping ………
