Create an Avatar

Your Virtual Self.

Using the Avatar Toolbox. Create a new Avatar with a unique first and last name of your choice.

Create a secure password and save.

*There are more options here that will be covered in another section.

  Download the Viewer

The Openlife is a Virtual World in 3D, to access this world you will need a compatible viewer. Viewers are available for any Microsoft Windows XP/VISTA PC & Apple Mac (Intel) OS X based Computers and for Linux. Only Offiicial 3DX viewers may connect to OpenLife at this time.

-Click here to visit the downloads page for ‘viewers’

We update the viewer frequently to achieve the best results for you in world, be sure to check the viewer downloads page regularly to receive the best experience in world.

Download, Install... The start Page.

On starting the viewer your first screen will be welcomed with the Openlife Viewer page and the login bar at the bottom of the Viewer Screen.

Enter your Avatar’s FIRST name, LAST name & Password then click CONNECT.

By default this will take you to your last location in world, if it’s your first time connecting it will take you to your ‘home’ set in the Avatar Toolbox.

*You may also directly enter the name of a ‘region’ in world by choosing edit->preferences-> show start location. And enter the name in the new entry box that appears.

Currently the Openlife 3DX Viewer is available for Microsoft Windows Platforms and intel based MAC's and Linux.

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More user contributed notes...

Client continually freezes up and disconnects:

If your client crashes, it's important to wait a minimum of two minutes before logging back into the OL grid.  Relogging too quickly will result in the client freezing and being logged out of OL as the server hasnt had time to log you out from the prevoius login.

I Connect to OL and get waiting for region connection or similar error and you can’t get in world?

Change your login Region

Either go to region tool box and change your login region or in the Kirsten Ol Viewer go to Edit menu preferences general and turn on (show start location on start-up screen) then just below your login name you can see a box showing my last location or home set it too Type Region Name and then enter the name of another region

Whilst we can not always say every region will be up without any errors there is normally one or two that can play up if you come in to chat on the website and I am sure someone can tell you the regions that are logging fine and maybe it just needs a restart so it help us all to make the grid run smooth and error free

We are in Alpha/Beta stage but we don’t want you to not enjoy your time here because of an error on one region.

 What connection speed should I use?

Use the file below to test the connection speed to OLG Grid

http://dltest.logingrid.net

Download and watch the average speed (please turn off any download accelerators)

Times the download average speed by 8

So if your speed is 56.6kb a second times that by 8

EG: 56.00kbs X 8 = 448

Or

EG: 100kbs X 8 = 800

So set your bandwidth slider in preferences /network to around the number you have calculated

 A General good balance is Between 500 - 600 kbs

***for my testing and reduction in packet loss I matched the down load speed-Sly Bosshart