Having fun with my customized DSL monster truck on last weeks Grid Drive.
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Halloween Grid Drive 2022
Had fun doing the Halloween grid drive on the 15th. I was able to ride the rides with my horse attached and the last part was very cool and very creative. Bravo!
Some Fun On The Grid Drive
I rezzed back in on Sunday morning only to find the rest of the gang finishing up yesterdays midnight drive and took the opportunity to take some pics as I rarely see the old gang anymore...
SAU Motors
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| SAU Motors |
Grid Drive Videos 20220423 NavHUD
It is a long-distance flight from Satori, starting with a road vehicle, flying through Bellisaria
to Jeogeot, and moving by a road vehicle on Jeogeot. Although the time was short, it was a thrilling journey and a battle with the security orbs on Bellisaria and Jeogeot.
Sponsor : Capital Moters
Zada Bury @ the Drivers of SL Grid Drive 2022-04-23 - 'honorable' intentions - (Photos UHD)
Kimberly McBlaze - Drivers of SL Grid Drive - 2022-04-24
It will start from 24:14 due to delivery trouble.
20220423 NavHUD Midnight Grid Drive by Pyo
Time line is in the description
(GTFO) Grid Drive Videos from 2022-04-16
Today the post by me (not sure, if all works well) ...
... editing the pictures and creating a video takes usual a bit longer,
than the streaming and maybe fixing some issues with the sound
(or better: music and copyright-complaints).
Here now the different videos, so far we was knowing about.
If you have knowledge about others, give Pyo, Kimberly or me a "poke".
- (my) Video from the photos,
taken around 1 hour before the midnight drive
The video is just under 3 minutes, as I was struggle with rezzing and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_B4dFpZX1w - Pyo's "20220416 NavHUD Midnight Grid Drive" ...
... with the "Inaka"-team from Japan, too ...
... and also with a separated flight part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKkjEVzkv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuy-o3iZhU - last, but not least:
"Kimberly McBlaze - Drivers of SL Grid Drive - 2022-04-17"
The stream starting at 4:20 ...
https://youtu.be/-5FsDU0tmqI?t=261
I hope you all was enjoy the drive ...
... and we looking forward to the next one.
PS:
Was someone on the "Bellisseria - Anniversary Race" on Saturday?
I totally have missed that ...
I totally have missed that ...
PPS:
You also can find all videos, I was able to catch since July 2021, here:
Grid Drive Videos 20220409 NavHUD
(1)20220409 NavHUD Midnight Grid Drive(Sound Replaced)@pyo
https://youtu.be/DXHq_n-mcBY
Since it is a very long video, please refer to the timeline in the summary column from the URL of Youtube to see each scene.
Since the timeline is described in the explanation column, it can be referenced from any position.
updated URL my videos(Rewritten all audio tracks to avoid copyright)
(2)Kimberly McBlaze - Drivers of SL Grid Drive - 2022-04-10
(3)Zada Bury @ the Drivers of SL Grid Drive 2022-04-09
These videos and photos were taken at Midnigh
Moving and Dropping Cargo on the Grid Drive
Grid drives have been getting interesting lately as we are moving cargo around with pallet movers, loading them in our flying machines and dropping them at certain locations.
DSL Blimp on the SL Valentine's Love Boat Cruise
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| DSL Blimp on Valentines Love Boat Cruise |
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| Drivers Blimping |
We had a little river cruise yesterday to the Bellisseria Fairgrounds for the SL Valentine's Love Boat Cruise. The Sim was quickly full so had to maneuver around it. One of the Moles used our navHUD to create the path. As far as I know, this is the first time LL has used our navHUD to do something. I guess we are getting noticed? Leave a comment if you know otherwise.
Zombies And bin Laden Oh My
On last weeks grid drive, some of us encountered something we have not seen for quite a while... a sim attack. It stopped all traffic and in fact, I had to re-log while trying to move my overturned Ajax away from its position. If you stayed there long enough, your graphics card would overload and stall.
We encountered one of these at winter camp in 2019 as well. bin Laden was quickly removed after several drivers reported him to LL.
Latest Videos from SL Aviation Network
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| SL Aviation Network |
In this video, we review the Drivers of SL Stargate Grid Drive, which became available on December 18th. This is an awesome drive created by Nadnerb Tebaldi. Nad’s drive uses the second life start gate system. This system is like the one you see on the Star Gate movie and TV series. The SL version teleports you to places all over the grid and has several activation modes which makes it very interesting.
Luke's Weekend Drive #9
I race the Hamster of Doom to the new demo derby track at 2raw racing and driving sim.
Supersonic Ultrasound - Music Video
Music for this video was written and performed by my RL son under the name of The Darkmoon Band. He played all of the instruments, sang all the vocal parts, and did all the mixing. The video band is Billy Bob's Psychedelic Underground Tribute Band. Supersonic Ultrasound Tribute
Angels Waypoint 20 Leg 4
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| 1.15.22 WP 20 Leg 4 |
On the Grid Drive in my Freedom Monster Truck by Scholes Devin. If you are not familiar with Scholes stuff, he makes trucks mostly and all kinds. Most of the trucks have a unique control panel that pops up when the hood is opened. The engine is pretty good but the scripts are getting old and my opinion need an update for the newer grid physics. Textures and sounds are top notch. You should be happy with your purchase if you get one. He offers modding stuff for some of them. You can find a link to Pro Street Cars on the vehicles we recommend page.
DSL and Grid Drive History
https://driversofsecondlife.blogspot.com/2022/01/dsl-and-grid-drive-history.html
In 2014 Patty Cloquet, a Second Life Cheerleader, created a simple navigation HUD to guide aviators to parties. SLCS (The Second Life Cheerleading Squad) had a monthly events called "Destination Unknown" parties. Party goers would follow the Nav HUD pointer dot from waypoint to waypoint until they reached the hidden party. The HUD was very simple, could only handle one leg and do nothing more than point one from waypoint to waypoint.
The "Destination Unknown" parties while a huge success, didn't last long and was soon forgotten. The Nav HUD was then lightly used over the next few years to help teach new pilots routes from one airport to another, but had no beeps, bells, voices, turn signs or anything, just a dot pointing you in a direction.
In October of 2017, Christi Charron decided to start a driving group, where anyone could post group drives using their own maps or navigation HUD brands and every member was allowed to post a notice doing so.
Christi decided to create her own drive using the old Nav HUD Patty had created for aviation years earlier since nobody was posting drives as she had hoped, and posted it in the group.
Not many were notified about the drive but over 20 people showed up to the first one, surprising everyone and showing there was a clear need for organized drives SL.
Christi then began planning simple, weekly drives, leading from point A to B only. Spurred on by the excitement of her HUD being put to good use, Patty began working endless hours improving the Nav HUD, making it indicate when a turn or region corner was approaching, and adding voice to it. The additions were a huge success and the group began to grow quickly!
Soon, it was apparent more was needed to keep people's interests high and Christi had always had an idea of using the entire Grid as the setting for a game or experience, but never could figure out how. One drive on Nautilus was made where one went from point A to B, then drivers received a second HUD upon arrival they would then use, taking them on Leg 2.
When Patty saw this being done she quickly modified the Nav HUD to handle multiple Legs within one HUD, and at the same time it was decided the HUD could and should detect people doing things at drive stops, forcing them to enter stores and such, to give them a reason for driving from point A to B, then C to D. The next week, the Navigation HUD had it's first interactive drive stop, forcing drivers at the end of the drive to enter a Gas Station owned by Driver Davedorm Gaffer, wash their hands in the sink, then exit the store to complete the drive.
Once Drivers and Creators saw this in action, they then knew almost every stop needed some sort of interaction, Patty and Christi worked very hard to come up with Nav HUD changes that allowed for detection of avatar interactions in world, and to react to them.
Over the next year, Patty worked endless hours improving the Nav HUD as things that were needed weekly became evident, and it has tremendous flexibility allowing one to create complex drives in a few days time that would take weeks to script from scratch.
It is this reason that we have the ability to create basically a weekly video game mission similar to today's popular sandbox style games outside of SL.
As Patty has unfortunately left SL permanently, we miss her and wish her well.
Progress still continues on improving the Nav HUD and each week the Drivers Group tries to show it's members something new in SL they haven't seen before, and usually tries to impress them by having the HUD do something new each and every week that they didn't realize was possible.
How To Obtain and Use the Navigation HUD
https://driversofsecondlife.blogspot.com/2022/01/how-to-obtain-and-use-navigation-hud.html
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| NavHUD |
All current and past NavHUD's can be obtained in-world at the DSL World Headquarters aka "HQ" here via the archives and are released via the Notices of the Drivers of SL group info page and is usually announced in the group chat within the day/hour.
You can either click on the Award on top of the filing cabinet to get the current single navHUD or click on the cabinet to get a month of navHUD drives in a folder of your choice.
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| Archives at HQ |
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| Check DSL Group Notices |
Once you obtain your NavHUD you are free to complete the drive when you want to. In-world group notices last two weeks before being automagically deleted from group notices.
Note: Older DSL NavHUD's may or may not work properly because route locations and objects on the drive/grid may have changed or are no longer available. Rewards also may or may not be available on older drives.
Once you obtain your NavHUD you then wear/add. The navHUD will give you written directions on top of the hud and also in your Local Chat window.
The NavHUD will also give you Audio directions, so if you have not already done so, turn up your sound so you can hear the directions as well while you are driving.
Please follow the Nav HUD directions given to you before you start asking questions in the DSL group chat. If all else fails, feel free to ask in the DSL Group Chat for help. Most likely there will be a lot of Drivers more than happy to assist you. Go Team :-)
The number one thing about the grid drive is to have patience. Let the NavHud load until it tells you it's ready in the Local Chat window.
Navigation HUD Features
Reroute : Re routes your route if you have not completed your route.
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| Reroute Symbol |
Expand/Contract HUD : Opens and closes the NavHud to optional choices.
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| Expand / Contract HUD |
Map to Next Rez Area : If you need a rez area, press and hold the green diamond with a yellow arrow and it will take you to the next closest rez area forward on the route.
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| Map to Next Rez Area |
Redeliver Items : This will re-deliver items along the route you might have missed including the final reward.
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| Redeliver Items |
Autopilot: If you are standing, running or flying, this will make your avatar walk, run or fly the leg you are on.
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| Autopilot |
Load New Route Notecard : Loads a blue button menu to choose a new leg.
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| Load New Route Notecard |
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| Load Legs |
Jump to Next Leg : Loads the next leg and then shows you its starting location on the map, so that you can then TP there if you choose to. It may come with a warning.
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| Jump to Next Leg |
Help Icon: (Click on the Question Mark) -> ( ? )
States:
"Hello, Congratulations, you are in possession of a Drivers of SL 'NavHUD!'
To reach your pre-programmed destination, just move in a direction that will keep the guidance circle's pointer up at 12-o-clock.
The directional guidance circle is green when you are facing your next waypoint, and will turn to yellow, then eventually red, as you face further away from that goal.
Touch the circle to expand the HUD to display a wide set of drive-time options.
Along the way you may receive guidance and cautions about upcoming rez areas, fuel pumps, narrow roads or channels, turn directions and angles, etc.
Click on the barely legible little orange and black arrow sign if you are lost. You will be re-routed and happily on your way again.
Click on the small icon with the arrow pointing to the green diamond to bring up a map that will show you the next rez area, with an option to teleport there.
Click on the cardboard box with an outgoing arrow to get things redelivered to you if you lost a given item or failed to accept it when offered.
Click on the steering wheel to be auto-piloted during the navigation phase of the current leg.
Click on the box labelled 'next leg' if you are hopelessly stuck on either the navigation or quest phase of a driving tour leg.
To repeat this help at any time, click the little question mark icon you see near the directional guidance circle.
Sent to you is a texture explaining how to use most of the NavHUD features.
Finally, just printed in your chat window is a link you can click to teleport directly to the start of the route.
Thank you for using the NavHUD!
Click this to teleport to the starting point: Teleport to...(the starting point)"
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