Planet is a free multiplayer game on the internet. You can simply explore the planet and chat with residents. You can also build your own world in 3D.
Planet runs on PCs with Windows 7 or higher, Intel i5 processor or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, SSD disk recommended. For an enjoyable experience, we advise you to use a large screen, a good keyboard and a good mouse, because you will write and click a lot. In case of technical problem, you can visit our Message Forum. Check the Planet User Manual.
What is Planet Samuro ?
Planet Samuro is a virtual world. You walk around with an avatar (=little character) to interact with other people. You are completely free to do whatever you want in it. Like in real life, there is no goal. This total freedom can destabilize some people at the beginning who are used to having rules in other games.
The scenery
The first thing you notice when you arrive with your avatar, is that the quality of the scenery is very different from one place to another. The reason is that absolutely everything was created by the residents, who obviously are more or less talented. Whether it is the buildings, the cars, the avatar clothes, the animations, everything is built and scripted in Planet itself.
First Steps
When you arrive, you usually start by dressing your avatar. Then you set out to explore the planet by walking, flying or teleporting, because yes, the planet is huge.
When you meet residents you can talk with them. If they are not busy they will usually help you if you have any questions. You don't have to always type, Planet Samuro also has webcams and allows you to speak into the microphone.
Groups
To have a place of your own, you can reserve an empty lot on the planet and set up your place. This involves acquiring items from stores and arranging them on your land. If you are part of a group of friends, you can give a Planet link so that they join you by teleporting directly to your land. Then you can give them rights on your land so that they can help you. Each lot of land is also associated with a group and an internet forum that allow you to leave messages.
Money
Planet Samuro is run by volunteers who are not interested in making money but rather in having a good time. Therefore, Planet is free and offers nothing to buy or sell. Reserving land and building is free, the only thing we ask is that you extend the reservation of your land at least every 3 months otherwise it will be deleted if you don't come anymore. However, there is a virtual currency in Planet that you can earn by being active in the game, which is used in some virtual stores to reward the creators, and that you can spend to increase the building capacity of your land.
Multimedia
Planet Samuro offers you the possibility to listen to .mp3 streams from internet radios, or to view .mp4 streams on video screens in the virtual world. If you are an avid radio DJ we advise you to partner with talented 3D designers who can build your place.
Privacy
Planet Samuro has no moderators, does not record conversations, and respects your privacy. However, this does not protect you from avatars near you who may take a screenshot or record you. If you want to have a more private place we advise you to take an island. If you're new to the site, you'll find it extremely difficult to go unnoticed. Planet Samuro is a tiny site compared to the Internet giants, and here everyone knows everyone. A new visitor is often the talk of the town.
Adult
Planet supports adult places that are only accessible to people who indicate adults on their profile. If you are planning to create an adult place we advise you to set up on an island. If you want strict verification, you can ask new visitors to put their webcam to verify that they are an adult before entering your property.
Creations
If you have a lot of free time you can get into 3D creation. Everything you see on Planet was created by the residents, whether it's the clothes for the avatars or the buildings on the planet. It is not especially difficult but it takes time and patience at the beginning to learn the basics. The documentation explains in general how it is done, you can also talk with other people who will give you advice. If you want to share your creations you can open your own store.
Copyright
The creations in your inventory are not kept on the Planet servers but on your PC. Planet does not keep anything and leaves the copyright on your creations to you. It is up to you to take a regular backup of your inventory on your PC if you don't want to lose everything.
Scripts
If you have a bit of programming talent, the Planet script language will let you do some cool stuff. You will find on Planet vehicles, fairground rides that turn in all directions, discos with laser projector and smoke particles, birds flying and squawking, small interactive games like scrabble, quiz, sudoku and chess. Each 3D object placed on Planet or carried by an avatar can contain scripts that make it active or display a menu with a list of options. A script can restrict avatars, for example to create a prison, blindfold, fog, walking restrictions, teleportation. You can carry objects on your screen to display information like health points or you can click them to send a message to other scripts. In short, if you master the scripts you can build a game within the game.
Open your own planet
We offer the 'Planet Server' software to let you run your own planet at the internet provider of your choice.
A planet has 33 km2 of constructible land and can handle up to 1000 players.
See documentation.
Planet Samuro was opened in 2018 to an audience with no 3D experience originating from a former chat site.
Until 2024, it evolved and now looks like the 3D worlds you know.
But there are also quite a few differences:
- Planet Samuro is not based on Opensim and is not Hypergrid-compatible. It's a new 64-bit Windows software, written in Safe-C, running under DirectX, and optimized for Windows 7/10/11.
- Planet Samuro costs absolutely nothing to reserve land and build. This will never change, and is made possible by a new software architecture that generates server costs 100 times lower than other comparable systems.
- Planet servers are available without interruption for months on end.
Unlike comparable systems :
- Planet has no performance degradation requiring a weekly reboot.
- Planet has no database degradation over time that requires maintenance.
- You can build on our main server, or you can open your own public server on the host of your choice and join it to the list of public planets via a system similar to Hypergrid.
- your inventory is stored on your PC, not on the Planet servers. Your inventory (and your avatar's clothes) are always available on any Planet server, even on a private server with no Internet connection or disconnected from the main grid.
- Planet has enough space for a large number of visitors to build and play creatively - up to 1000 avatars per server.
- there are no prims, no sculpties, no terraforming of terrain. It's all mesh. When you reserve a plot of land, you must first place a mesh plate on the ground to avoid falling into a void.
- Ruth/Roth v3 open-source avatars are used as standard avatars.
- you can create mesh objects and mesh rigged garments directly in Planet with an integrated mesh editor. You don't need external tools like Blender.
- Importing meshes or textures costs nothing. You can import and export your mesh creations in .dae or .obj format, and your textures in .png, .jpg, .gif or .bmp format.
- modern PBR textures are supported: roughness, metal, ambient occlusion, normal. Color values beyond 255 are supported for oversaturation.
- vehicles (cars, helicopters, drones, boats, submarines) work on all terrains and all seas, so you can travel easily from one island to another. There's no sim-crossing, all movements are seamless.
- the integrated animation editor lets you create your own BVH animations.
- Planet Samuro features webcams, microphone and mp4 videos.
- RLV is integrated and always active, with no need to wear a relay.
- raycasting is available for scripting autonomously-moving animals.