Having a unique identity in the metaverse is important. Your metaverse identity is how you express yourself digitally. It’s how other players recognize you and get to know you. This is why so many people spend thousands of dollars (and crypto) to maintain their own unique identities with avatars. Ready Player Me avatars, created through…
How To: From Blender to Somnium Builder
It is surprisingly easy to create your own objects in Blender and make them available in the Builder, via Unity and the Somnium Space Unity SDK. This article describes the main flow. It is not an in-depth tutorial on how to install and use the various components. However, it may serve as a starting point,…
Create A Selfie-Based Avatar for Somnium Space
VIEW UPDATED TUTORIAL HERE: https://youtu.be/aPjpQkvnJc0 Below is an in-depth video tutorial followed by detailed instructions on how to upload a selfie-based custom Wolf3d avatar into Somnium Space – for free! All you need is a gaming PC, a snack and a drink to follow along (snack is optional, but highly recommended). This tutorial is medium…
How to Build a Presence in the Metaverse: A Guide
More and more people understand the value of securing and building a presence in the Metaverse. A VR domain/parcel is the new black, similar to when securing your domain and building a presence on the World Wide Web was a no-brainer. We’re not talking about something fundamentally different. Rather, the Metaverse is a logical next…
Submitting your events for the Somnium Times Event Calendar
Somnium Times has a great event calendar feature for everything that is happening in Somnium Space. You can find the calendar here. To make it easier for people to have their events listed – and keep the calendar as up to date as possible – we’ve introduced a feature that enables online submission. You can…
Visual Scripting: Somnium Superpowers
You may have already seen a video (like this or this or this) showing off the power of Somnium Space‘s brand new Visual Scripting. So how does it work? It’s still in Alpha and subject to change, but let’s explore what we have available. Movable Objects The basic building blocks of visual scripting are Movable…
How to use the new Somnium Map Explorer
Somnium Space has launched a new Map Explorer that gives unparalleled insights into the state of the Somnium VR world and its 5000 parcel assets. Somnium Space Map Explorer It is not an ordinary 2D explorer, but one that presents parcel data such as sale prices in extruded shapes (bars) on top of Somnium’s map,…
Somnium Space Builder, part 2: Vector snapping, rotations and how to create a glass box
The Somnium Space Builder is an easy to use tool to for creating structures and uploading those to your parcels in Somnium Space. It has a simple, clean interface and although it is not a full blown 3D modeling tool, you can make beautiful and elaborate objects. Other tutorials Vector snapping Being able to align…
Somnium Space Builder: Getting started
The Somnium Space Builder is an easy to use tool to for creating structures and uploading those to your parcels in Somnium. It has a simple, clean interface and although it is not a full blown 3D modeling tool, you can make beautiful and elaborate objects. Have a look at some of the buildings below….
How to Create a Storefront and NFT using Opensea.io
Okay so you’re excited about all things Somnium Space, know what NFT’s are and you even have some great ideas for creations that you want to tokenize – but you don’t quite know where to go from here and how to create the NFT’s. Then this tutorial is for you! The tutorial assumes you have…