Some people have reported difficulties in uploading stuff to the Condensation Land grid with Second Inventory. Here’s a short guide explaining how to do it. We will assume that you have bought a copy of Second Inventory, installed it, and managed to download your stuff from Second Life to your hard disk.
Step 1: Defining the “Condensation Land” grid.
First of all, we have to define a custom grid for “Condensation Land” — Second Inventory comes preloaded with the most known grids, but Condensation is not one of them. To define Condensation to Second Inventory, we have to:
1.a) Start Second Inventory:
You should get a screen similar to the following:
Don’t attempt to log in at this stage! We have to define Condensation first!
1.b) Press the “Preferences” button
You will get a panel like the following:
1.c) Select the “Custom Grids” tab
You will most probably get an empty list — in my case it shows an entry for the Rezzable Private Grid.
1.d) Press the “Add Grid” button
1.e) Fill in the details
In the “Short name” field, write “Condensation”; in “Grid Name”, “Condensation Land”, in “Login URI”, “http://condensationland.com:9000”; ensure that the “Grid Engine” dropdown has the “Opensim” option selected; leave all the remaining fields as per their default (as shown in the image).
1.f) Press “Confirm”
You will get back to the “Custom grids” panel, which will now show a new entry for Condensation Land.
1.g) Press the “Close” button
We are now back to the main Second Inventory screen:
Now we can try to connect to Condensation Land.
Step 2: Connecting to the Condensation Land grid
2.a) Selecting “Condensation Land”
Click the “Grid” dropdown. You will see a new entry reading “Condensation Land” (at the end). Select it:
2.b) Fill in your log in details
Enter your avatar name (if you’re using the multi-avatar version) and your password for the Condensation Land grid (not your Second Life password). Choose your start location if you wish.
2.c) Press the “Connect” button
After some seconds you will be connected to the Condensation Land grid!
Step 3: Upload your stuff to the Condensation Land grid
3.a) Select an item you want to upload
Click your avatar name in the “RL inventory” tab — a small “+” sign will appear. Click it. You will see an inventory with the stuff you have transferred. Click the small “+” signs until you have identified the item you want to upload:
3.b) Right click the item, select “Restore”
A new panel will appear:
3.c) Click “Start Restore”
A progress screen will appear, and after a short while you will get a completion report panel:
You can dismiss this panel.
Step 4: Repeat step 3 for all the items you want to upload
Step 5: Log off from Second Inventory
Press the “Disconnect” button, then close the Second Inventory window.
Step 6: Clear your viewer’s cache
If you don’t do that, the items you have just uploaded can take several hours to show in your Condensation Land inventory
That’s it!
You can now log in normally to Condensation Land, and you will find all the stuff you have uploaded in your inventory
*sigh*
you are admirable Zonja
I did already several of those steps, must have tripped somewhere on the path
have I said Thank You ? I will say it again to be sure
ain’t I a demanding trial pilot ? slow learner, ach…
I try that tomorrow, it will get a real start now, I will note all the steps and send you the detail so that you understand what I do wrong
the message I get is “Avatar name not recognised”
btw, there are RL holiday starting on Wednesday, two weeks no connection, so do not worry, I will be back after 28th Feb
M
(that silly programme cut off the kisses, pffft)
kissy kiss Zonja cara, take care
Mikil
Next step will be to set up a giver for visitors, sort of flea market
I will have to work some doing the packages
But first content
You’re very welcome! :-) Since I wrote this article I’ve found that other people are also experiencing problems, for example Ant — very practical, now I direct them to here and it’s done.
We have to think about how to distribute the stuff we import — I think putting it in an IAR and having it automatically show in the Opensim Library is the best way, freebie shops tend to be horrible…
Doing it all over again, as I deleted stupidly the OpenSim from my harddisk, thinking it was an older version of SL I had kept as backup just in case. The disk being quite crowded, I had to lighten it a bit to allow a defragmentation, and speed up everything. Since then no connection to Condensation OD possible, gggrrr
I WILL BE BACK, LOL and knack open that inventory to Tralfalmadore-LaMikilina island OS for all to enjoy the freebies
wishing you all the best Zonja
Mikil