The Nexus

The Nexus is an open source, community-driven, CC0 city for the open metaverse.

Bring The Nexus to the places your people already are
Fork it and modify it to fit your community
Build with us and be part of something that will exist forever for anyone to use

Setup Instructions

The project uses vanilla Blender 3.0 or above. For the best experience, use the latest version. You don't need any special plugins or anything. If you've never used Blender, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw

Installation Instructions

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/thenexuscity/thenexus && cd thenexus

You shouldn't need to do anything special after that.

Contributions Welcome

Any contributions will be reviewed. Thank you for your contributions.

Please post photos to make it easy, and try to remove any unused or unlinked assets to keep your files small. Deleting orphan files and removing unused assets will keep out GitHub from exploding. Here's a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IU_tPH4Hs

Clean up orphans using this command in blender.

Make sure to have this settings on blender to keep assets at minimum to keep the files small:

Adding New Assets and Commiting Them

When you have made something you want to add to The nexus then you can add it to your git and push it with GitHub Desktop or command line, depending on your preference.

If you are unfamiliar with shell scripting in the terminal then the Desktop version is probably easier: https://desktop.github.com/ Here's a tutorial for how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPagOAUx2SQ

git add <filename>.blend
git commit -m "Added <feature> to <filename>
git push

Shell looks scary at first, but it actually pretty simple, and it's worth getting into. You can find a tutorial for this kind of shell scripting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtovwKDemnI

If you don't (yet) feel comfortable using Git in the terminal, this video tutorial may be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWYqp7iY_Tc