overte-AleziaKurdis/README.md

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### What is this?

Overte is a free and open source 3D social virtual worlds software.

* Desktop and VR use
* Hundreds of users simultaneously
* Collaborative in-world creation
* Full-body avatars
* FBX, glTF, and OBJ support
* JavaScript scripting engine
* 256km²/4096km³ world space in a server
* Fully self-hosted
* Apache 2.0

### Releases

[View Releases here](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/releases/)
[Pre-releases for testing are available here](https://public.overte.org/index.html#build/overte/)

### How to deploy a Server

- [For Windows and Linux](https://docs.overte.org/en/latest/host.html)

### Building

#### How to build the Interface

- [For Windows](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/BUILD_WIN.md)
- [For Mac](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/BUILD_OSX.md)
- [For Linux](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/BUILD_LINUX.md)
- [For Linux - Overte Builder](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-builder)

#### How to build a Server

- [For Windows](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/BUILD_WIN.md)
- [For Linux](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/BUILD_LINUX.md)
- [For Linux - Overte Builder](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-builder)

#### How to generate an Installer

- [For Windows - Interface & Server](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/INSTALLER.md)
- [For Mac - Interface](https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/master/INSTALLER.md#os-x)
- [For Linux - Server .deb - Overte Builder](INSTALLER.md#ubuntu-1804--deb)
- [For Linux - Interface AppImage - Overte Builder](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-builder/blob/master/README.md#building-appimages)

### Mission statement

Overte aims to provide social virtual worlds experience with entitely free and open source infrastructure.

### Technical details

Overte consists of many projects and codebases with its unifying structure's goal being free and open source self-hosted virtual worlds.

- The Interface - You are here!
- The Server - You are also here!
- [The Directory Server (Codename Iamus)](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-metaverse/)
- [The Directory Server Dashboard (Codename Iamus)](https://github.com/overte-org/metaverse-dashboard/)
- [The Launcher (Codename Pantheon)](https://github.com/overte-org/pantheon-launcher/) - Currently Windows only.

#### Tools
- [Overte Builder for Linux](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-builder/)

#### Documentation
- [User Documentation](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-docs-sphinx/)
- [Developer Documentation](https://github.com/overte-org/overte-dev-docs/)

### Contribution

There are many contributors to Overte. Code writers, reviewers, testers, documentation writers, modellers, and general supporters of the project are all integral to its development and success towards its goals. Find out how you can [contribute](https://docs.overte.org/en/latest/contribute.html)!