(In the video I used Apotheus Silverman’s maze script.)
In short:
- Export your creation, if it’s not already stored on your harddrive
- Zip it
- Create a new account or log into your existing account
- Click on Dashboard > New Post on the top navigation menu
- Name your creation
- Upload a snapshot of your creation by clicking the image icon after Upload/Insert
- Click on “featured image” on the image preview, then on “insert into post”. (The featured image is the one that will be shown in the slideshow, grid and preview.)
- Below the image, upload your creation by clicking the download icon after Upload/Insert
- Again, click on “insert into post”, this will create a link to the download.
- Add a description, more images, some information about which viewer to use when importing it, anything you like or think is important.
- Optionally, link to additional resources, informations, your blog, anything that’s related to the creation.
- Pick one or several categories the creation fits in.
- Optionally, add tags that describe your creation further. (Think of tags as something like finely grained subcategories.)
- Optionally, check “Show in slideshow”, if you want it to be shown in the slideshow on the front page, and not in the latest entries.
- Pick a license for your creation by checking one of the buttons below the post, or include a link to or the text of the license you want to use for the creation.
- Finally, click on Publish.
- Your creation should appear instantly on opensim-creations.com
For advanced users:
- If you are using the same instructions for several entries, you can create a separate post for the instructions and link to them every time they’re required (the Tutorials section is useful for that). This saves you some time copy/pasting the same text into each post, and also makes it easier to update the instructions. Likewise, you can link to the instructions of others if you find them appropriate for your creations.
- If you want to disable the ratings for your post, click on “Post Stars Rating” on the top right of the post editor and choose “Locked” or “Locked and hidden”. This section lets you change other settings for ratings as well.
- OSC uses slickr flickr to include flickr streams into posts. If you want to include a flickr stream into your post, you can use this shortcut – where 1578921@N24 is the flickr id of the stream you want (find out the flickr id with idgettr)1. This way, you can include your own flickr snapshots and future snapshots will be shown automatically. Also, you can create a flickr group for your creations and include that into your posts. If you want to restrict the stream to certain pictures, you can specify the stream to only show pictures with certain tags. This example will only show pictues from the TGIB group tagged with “TGIB table cloth”.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.
- if it’s a group stream, make sure to include
group="y"into the code [↩]
8 comments
A Maze | OpenSim Creations says:
Apr 16, 2011
[...] used to exemplify how to use OSC. Maze was created using Apotheus Silverman’s maze script. VN:F [1.9.8_1114]Please rate this [...]
Designers offer OpenSim goods on Websites – Hypergrid Business says:
Apr 18, 2011
[...] fact, anyone can share their creations here by following these instructions. You can also watch a video tutorial on how to export your objects and share them on OpenSim [...]
virtualclover says:
Feb 25, 2012
Well, I was looking for a feedback or comment option but must be blind or there isn’t one…and no immediately visible option to make a forum thread…so…unfortunately we get to hijack a non related thread to ask! Sorry!
On your tutorials, it’d be fantastic if you could provide a tutorial (or the actual object) for a rezzable texture viewer. I’ve not found anything outside sl that lets you put in the textures that are displayed in a grid in the panel object rezzed on the ground. Those come in so handy and if I knew how to script, I’d have made one already.
Vanish says:
Feb 25, 2012
Hi, regarding the forums: If you select a forum, on the bottom of the list of topics, there’s an entry field which you can use to create a new topic.
Regarding the texture viewer: I’m not sure which textures it’s supposed to display, but if you just want a nifty texture browser for the textures in your inventory, I recommend using Imprudence, which has one built into the viewer (in Advanced > Asset Browser, or alt-shift-A as a shortcut).
virtualclover says:
Feb 25, 2012
Thanks
No, I wasn’t meaning a viewer viewer, but an actual texture preview object itself, all the textures are put into the object that displays one or several at a time on a panel, and you can cycle through the textures (in the object) and click on any particular one to have it dropped into your inventory for easy access. I have a few of them in sl but does me no good outside of it ;p
Vanish says:
Feb 26, 2012
Hm, then sorry, I ‘ve never used one like that, or know how to make one. Still, I’d try the one that’s built into Imprudence, as it can pretty much do what you just described.
Where to get content for OpenSim – Hypergrid Business says:
Aug 18, 2012
[...] — or from your own imagination — and don’t mind sharing them, please do consider uploading them to OpenSim Creations for others to [...]
Contenu pour Opensim | CARPATHES-GRID says:
Nov 2, 2012
[...] imagination – et ne me dérange pas de les partager, s’il vous plaît envisager de les charger sur OpenSim de créations pour les autres à utiliser [...]