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It has been said that the two most represented ethnic groups in Americans’ ancestry are German and Irish.  Not a few of us, myself included, have liberal amounts of both.  Not surprising then that my German side mandates the addition of a Lutheran Chapel, while the Irish side demands a friendly and informal bar.  Xorgrid now has both.

Ingemar is relaxing in the newly furnished patio.  Patio furniture and some bar items courtesy of Zonja Capalini’s free-to-copy items.

Here you see the newly finished but as yet unfurnished chapel, complete with stained glass window.  The pews will take a bit of doing, so they will not be in until next week.  OpenSim still has problems with where you sit on an object.  The avatar seems to have his bottom placed at the center of the object.  The trick seems to be to add an invisible block around the chair, the center of it being where the avatar is to sit.

There is some new furniture in the visitor center, courtesy of some free-to-copy items Ingemar picked up in Nibiru, courtesy of Tiffiny Sicling

Here you see an interior view, including a reproduction of the famous painting of rubber clocks by Salvador Dali, Ingemar’s favorite painter.

The office, located in the second floor of the visitor center,  hasn’t been neglected either.  Office furniture is also more free-to-copy items from Nibiru.

There are two more building sites in this small complex, and with a little luck, at least one of these should be finished by next week.  After that, I want to get back to some more technical details when there is time.  I want to add a visitor log, and it needs to be sufficiently modular so that when the next version of OpenSim comes out, I won’t have to graft it in.  Doing it with scripting is a lot more work for a lot less functionality, but at least it doesn’t have to be reinserted into the OpenSim code in the next update.  The best way seems to be to use scripting to do HTTP access to my webspace, where information can be stored in the SQL Server instance there.

Now that I have gone headlong into the development of iPhone and iPod Touch applications, I think that there has to be a way to integrate them into OpenSim in some useful way.  It’s doubful that there will ever be a version of the Hippo viewer running on iPhone, but at least iPhone apps can do HTTP requests.  If you have any thoughts, leave a comment.

That’s it for this week.  Once again, if you are into hypergridding, drop in to xorgrid when you have time.  The Helicon region is open for anybody’s building.

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