I've been encountering a strange phenomenon for quite a while now.

Firestorm reproducibly does not texture certain surfaces. They're rare, but they're always the same.

One example that comes to mind: Swiss Cafe (in case you know it), second ground floor window from the left, the "non-moving" parts. They're always "textured" plain white. Even on derivatives of this building, and regardless of on which sim on which grid they're located.

This happens to two different avatars of mine from two separate grids each (two avatars on one grid, two avatars on another grid). It also happens on two separate computers, both booting Debian testing, but I don't think the underlying OS has any influence. This rules faulty cache content out.

In fact, it even happens after I've completely deleted the cache manually outside Firestorm.

I've tested various Firestorm versions from 6.3.9 to 7.1.9 today, and they all show this strange behaviour. That is, I do recall having seen the Swiss Cafe properly with all textures in the past, using Firestorm.

A while ago, I tried saving the general settings and all avatar settings, then deleting the entire ~/.firestorm_x64 directory. It didn't change anything.

Eventually, I tried the Cool VL Viewer. It doesn't render that texture either. So it's actually independent from the viewer as well.

Can it be that assets can be damaged by faulty asset servers or something, and that damage spreads all across the Hypergrid and wrecks all copies and all derivatives of the affected content?

Live from Rockin' The Blues! It's Saturday Night with DJ Kith! 7:30PM-9PM!
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues
Event begins: 2024-06-22 19:30 SLT
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
Blues man DJ Kith continues our Saturday Night Blues Party!! DJ Kith is gonna ROCK OUR HOUSE with the most exciting blues anywhere!! Kith's sets are guaranteed to be fresh and full of surprises, so if you like your blues with an edge... Grab a friend and hop the first gator down to Rockin' the Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid! This party will be full of fun, friendship and awesome blues tunes!

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Sunday June 23 2024. 5 P.M. till 7 P.M. Pacific time, On The Rocks will be celebrating our LGBTQ+ Friends and family with DJ Maldrul playing some special Rock songs and of course his ever popular "Something Completely Different". Freebies in front of the DJ stand. Bring your friends, family and hunney bunneys and come party and celebrate our LBGTQ+ community. Open bar! ;)
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Airmid/478/97/23

DJ Riker's Saturday Blues Showcase at Rockin' the Blues tonight at 6:00PM!
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues
Event begins: 2024-06-22 18:00 SLT
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
Calling all blues lovers! Get ready for a night of smokin' hot blues with DJ Riker at Rockin' the Blues! Riker is a master of the blues, with a deep knowledge of the genre and a knack for keeping the dance floor packed! He'll be spinning your favorite blues from classics to contemporary! Rockin' the Blues is the perfect place to soak up the atmosphere of the blues! Come on down!

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Dystopia. A dystopic city theme built for play and fun. Explore the harbour, the old amusement park, the Sexposure - or if you dare - Dr. Volkhard's old abandonded asylum, and many many more places. Wheter you want to just walk around and take in the scenery or role-play, this is the place for you.

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If you find my work valuable and want to contribute and help me keep working on, please send your donations or come rent a few weeks in Glossy Island.

Thank you for your generous donations.
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New! List Subscriber! GREAT FOR DJ'S!!! GREAT FOR SHOP OWNERS!!! People can click it to subscribe to your list! WAY MORE RELIABLE THAN GROUP MESSAGES! Then the dj can send a notice out to all the subscribers in the list, even if they are on many different grids! Great for parties! New in this version: Click once to be added to the list, click a second time to be deleted from list. Owner click will bring up the menu to enter or send a message to all the subscribers. :) New in this version: Saves the entire subscriber list to a notecard so your subscribers are never lost! :) Get yours now at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox I'll leave it here a few days before deleting it. :)

Join us at 5 pm grid time for an hour of great fun with a live performance from Steven Strikker.
The Piazza, where great fun and good friends come together.
Drop this link into your map;
http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

DJ Alex comes on fire, guys at 3 pm grid time! with the hottest tunes for everyone to set the mood. Yes! because it's always time to party. What's the reason for it? Well... we are PARTY PEOPLE!
Piazza, where great fun and good friends come together. Drop this link into your map; http://bridgemere.outworldz.net/:8002:Paradise Lagoon

At the present time, Amoa Nude Beach is experiencing technical difficulties. I cannot say how long this will take to repair, but I apologize for this asset issue happening a second time in 2 weeks.

It is apparently being caused by Dreamgrid software that I, nor the grid owners have control over, which causes a failure of assets.

So we have missing textures, failing scripts, body in-completions among the most notable. I will have to redo alot of it again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hey Everyone :)
I'm performing at AnKaBi Bikers Heaven at 12:pm Grid Time!
Come join us for some great fun & music!
Bi-Weekly on Saturdays!
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Hey folks! Sorry about the mess and confusion at the mall, but we're re arranging things to make it better and more streamlined for our customers! We should have it all done by the end of the day today, early tomorrow morning at the latest. So bear with us we've got all the little people working their butts off to get it done! Thank you for understanding because until it's done the teleport system is going to be a wild ride !!!

@Ferdzee crafted a dynamic tapestry woven with threads of digital elements, textures, and lighting. The grandeur of the Grand Tower and the welcoming embrace of the city gates collectively symbolize the spirit of Japan. Thank you 🏯💗

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This unique sim created by members of Team 2 aka Clan's Band features a "Musical Mystery Tour" of 8 different genre levels of music. Today we'll be on the BeBop level 5 at MoonShine's Drive In Diner. Clan will sing LIVE and we'll push back the juke box and accompany him on stage. Take the TP to the BeBop level 5 from the ground, or ride a series of balloons up through the levels. See you here at 11 AM SATURDAY JUNE 22! hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/An%20Alternate%20Metaver...

*EUROPA RANCH* Now opened for public. When at EUROPA (main region), look for a big glassy teleporter board and pick up as destination EUROPA RANCH :)
CHEZ UFO branch opened now at that sim with greedy table for all visitors. Alien-horses rezzers available as well.
Enjoy :)

I notice when I do a post and I pay for it. the asking price to post it is not showing up on the front page of open sim world directory is there a reason for this I'm also VIP thank you for any information someone may give me.

Ooops! An error was found in OverWatch Sentry. Please upgrade to version 58. The error was that the banlistkeys should have been banlistkey to conform with the other files. The file would be recreated endlessly the wrong file. Now it's fixed. It was a well hidden bug. Get it now at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:Welcome

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If you find my work valuable and want to contribute and help me keep working on, please send your donations or come rent a few weeks in Glossy Island.
Thank you for your generous donations.
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Join us at the Piazza at 3 pm grid time, for a couple of hours of fun and music while Rockin' Robert spins the tunes for us via his radio station Wax Radio.
The Piazza, where good friends and great music always come together.
bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Friday June 21st ,24
Zoree Jupiter Live at East Coast Clubs ! -Digiworldz
Once there tap TP to Location
12-2:00pm
BEST in BLUE!
Prizes!
D1000. $Ds
Music! Friends! Fun!
Hope you will Join us
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New! List Subscriber! GREAT FOR DJ'S!!! GREAT FOR SHOP OWNERS!!! People can click it to subscribe to your list! Then the dj can send a notice out to all the subscribers in the list, even if they are on many different grids! Great for parties! New in this version: Click once to be added to the list, click a second time to be deleted from list. Owner click will bring up the menu to enter or send a message to all the subscribers. :) New in this version: Saves the entire subscriber list to a notecard so your subscribers are never lost! :) Get yours now at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox I'll leave it here a few days before deleting it. :)

Hello friends of New Life Italy,
The big day has arrived! We are pleased to announce that, starting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 19, we will celebrate one year of being open! Thank you for your continued support. To celebrate, we have organized two special evenings of live music.
Black Moon and Nikita will perform on Tuesday, June 19, and Rogue Galaxy and Putri Solo will perform on Friday, June 21.
Performance times:

Tuesday, June 19: 12/13 SLT and 1/14 SLT
Friday, June 21: 12/13 SLT and 13/14 SLT
https://opensimworld.com/hop/92559

In case you didn't know: Firestorm 7.1.9 has been released yesterday. It's the first release that supports PBR (Physically-Based Rendering).

https://www.firestormviewer.org/firestorm-gets-physical-fo...

On the one hand, this means that the Advanced Lighting Model is now permanently on. You can't turn it off again.

On the other hand, Firestorm supports multi-threading now. Firestorm 6 and earlier only ever used one CPU thread. Firestorm 7 can use all of them.

So all fearmongering that you'll need a high-end gaming rig for Firestorm 7 is just that, fearmongering. Unless you've got an absolute toaster that was already built as an absolute toaster, and that has never been powerful enough for virtual worlds, unless you have to turn everything off from transparent water to shaders to light sources, chances are Firestorm 7 will actually be faster than Firestorm 6.

To give you an example: I have a Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB RAM and a Radeon RX590 graphics card with 8GB VRAM. This is nowhere near high-end.

What Firestorm 6 renders with 20-30fps with ambient occlusion and shadows off, Firestorm 7 may render with 50+fps with ambient occlusion and shadows on.

Am Samstag den 22. Juni 2024 wollen wir mit Euch zusammen die Sonnenwende feiern. Ab 20 Uhr legen drei DJs in der Volta Sea am Leuchtturm auf.
Bringt gute Laune mit, für den Rest sorgen wir...
Wir freuen uns auf Euch.
Liebe Grüße
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On Saturday, June 22, 2024, we want to celebrate the solstice with you. From 8 p.m., three DJs will be playing in the Volta Sea at the lighthouse.
Bring a good mood, we'll take care of the rest...
We look forward to seeing you.
Best wishes
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