By
Wesley Regenbogen
The Dawn
Kingdoms ( located in the Fort Nowhere sim) is the place where you can
walk around aside the dinosaurs. The name
comes from dawn, which means the early ages of Earth and kingdoms
reflects on the empire that was owned by the dinosaurs.
This sim
was created in the year 2007 and the Dinosaur Shop was opened in
2008, and is a full-sized sim. The owner hopes to expand the sim,
when the funding allows it. The
creator/owner of this all is Wanders Nowhere, but he gets assistance
from two trustworthy friends of him (Alevan and Kaitlyn ), who are
also sim admins of the place.
Wanders
Nowhere created this sim all by himself and he also created the
dinosaur mesh bots. Those
dinosaur mesh bots are scripted bots that can react when an avatar is
nearby, by roaring at them. The owner
says it was difficult to create those dinosaur mesh bots in the
beginning, but now he can create one in 1 or 2 weeks’ time. He is
experimenting with new scripts and new methods of moving of the
dinosaur mesh bots. Some
dinosaur mesh bots are difficult to create, because they have unusual
features, feathers and other things that all need to be animated and
put into place. I have
also seen a T-Rex in the Dawn Kingdoms, that was quite a scare,
because it really is huge.
Wanders
Nowhere also says that it has been hard work to create it all, but he
says it challenging and rewarding to make it all. In the
future he will create so-called “guests rides” where they follow
a path or even fight with avatars who wear combat HUDs on them. There is
also a group where you can get updates from this place, but I haven’t
joined it yet.
Before you
get in the actual dinosaur adventure, you arrive at the dinosaur shop
and the entering area. To “time
warp” into the sim, you need to follow the arrow , which takes you
to a glowing orb and you need to touch it ( right-click and select
“Touch” ). You then need to “sit” on the glowing orb and wait
until the teleport system transwarps you to the era. Before entering
it asks which era you want to teleport to. But there is only one
option, at the moment of writing this article, so, you click it and
it takes you to the sim itself.
The
landscape of the sim is beautifully rendered and the dinosaur mesh
bots are awaiting you. When you
get a bit closer towards the dinosaur, it will roar once you near it
very closely. This is
the reaction that the owner put in place to allow the dinosaurs to
“react” to avatars. When you
wander around the place you encounter a few dinosaurs, like a T-Rex,
and raptors and other dinos.
This place
is one of the coolest places that I have ever visited in my lifetime
on Second Life. In my
personal opinion, this place is awesome and I hope he can continue to
create further here.
It’s
worth a visit, trust me.
You can
find it at :
Wesley Regenbogen
