Endlich ist es soweit .. wir eröffnen unser Grid am Freitag den 2.12.22 ab 18 Uhr
Ihr seid herzlich eingeladen kräftig mitzufeiern !
Dj Genie ( 90er Hits ) - 18 Uhr - 20 Uhr
Djane Bella ( Remixe ) - 20 Uhr - open End
Wir feiern bis der Arzt kommt :)

Finally the time has come.. we open our grid on Friday 2.12.22 from 9AM SLT
You are cordially invited to join in the celebrations!
Dj Genie ( 90s Hits ) - 9AM - 11AM
Djane Bella ( Remixes ) 11AM - open end
We celebrate until the doctor comes :

I have Good News and Bad News first the Bad News which really isn't so bad. You see, after remodeling and rezzing the new store which just had holiday jewelry, I had several contact me asking me to please bring back the original Monentes Store with all the jewelry regardless of the store being completely full and disorganized. They wanted more choices the mess did not matter. Alrighty then!! Let's go with stocked full and messy !! The original store has been restored! I will get the holiday jewelry placed today! Thank you for reaching out I liked the original store too~

Anyone on Mastodon already? Or elsewhere in the Fediverse? I know some of you are, I've already got almost two dozen contacts from OpenSim. Mal Burns is already there, the maker of Inworld Review, as are Austin Tate a.k.a. Ai Austin, the maintainer of Ruth2 and Roth2 with a separate account for his avatar, and vrsimility who rebuilds Liverpool's Old Dock in OpenSim (in case you've seen it at OSCC21), just to name a few.

If you consider the switch from the Birdsite to the Fediverse, or if you generally want to dive into free and decentral social networking, I've got good news for you:

There is now a Mastodon instance for OpenSim users: https://opensim.world/

In spite of its name, I don't think it's that affiliated with OSW, maybe not yet. It comes from Quintonia, you know, who brought you the Satyr Farm enhancements.

So this may be a better place for you to go than the big and overloaded instances if you're an OpenSim user.

Anyway, whether you're already there or interested in joining, see you soon!

Opening Party Titty Twister
Vielen Dank! Die Stimmung war heiss, die Leute toll, der DJ CRAZY weltklasse ----- DAUMEN HOCH BEIDE! Ihr Alle habt uns (BAD und Siwas) glücklich gemacht! DANKE! ----- Thanks a lot! The atmosphere was hot, the people great, the DJ CRAZY world class ----- THUMBS UP BOTH! You all made us (BAD and Siwas) happy! THANK YOU!

Our Winter's Magic region has been graced with @JoeBuilder OAR "Time of Year" a wintery sim we will have ice skating soon here, stay tuned. Thank you Fred for making this available to us, and thank you Joe! Also thank you to the many creators whose creations helped to create this OAR. We have free shops available if you have winter themed items to share, please IM to get set up.

Stark Islands is proud to present our new location:

ANGEL WINGS BDSM

Come experience this elegant sinful club, furnished to see to all of your desires, with many many places to live your couple, threesome or foursome erotic dreams.
18+ only.
https://opensimworld.com/post/94202

Premiere Opening Sunday, November 6, at 11 am grid time with Mattie as your DJ.

https://opensimworld.com/events/93457

It is already open to the public as of today.

Yay, another great party at Stark! Thanks Mattie for the music and all that attended for the fun :)
If you missed out, you get more chances every day at aprox 12-3pm :)
https://opensimworld.com/hop/82322

Muahhahahhaha…Calling all creatures of fright! It's Wyldwood Bayou Grid's 2nd Anniversary & Rockin' The Blues 11th Anniversary, soooo...

All are cordially invited to join us for a Spook-tacular Hot Daddy's and Rockin' the Blues road trip to Wyldwood Bayou Voodoo Circle!! Are you ready for some Blues & Boos??? Then make your way through our Perilously Wyld Swamp to the Bone-Chilling Voodoo Circle, where you're likely to encounter all manner of ghoulish and gruesome beasties howling to the Tunes of DJ Riker (and his host Amara) from 6:00 to 7:30pm & DJ Kith (and his host Harmony) from 7:30 to 9:00pm!!! We'll bring the tunes, you bring the terror! (Translation--Dress in costume or as you are!) It's sure to be a spine-tingling event & The Tribe will be there to bewitch you--They're dying for you to come!!

(**For your best experience: Be sure to switch to Shared Environment before you teleport in! Go to "World" on the top Firestorm toolbar. Then go to "Environment" and select "Use Shared Environment". Yay!)

Your hearse awaits you at Hot Daddy's and Rockin' the Blues or take the link below!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Voodoo Circle

New Assets 30/10/2020
Texture Organizer,more & Mystery Victorian Manor House
(incleded Furnitures BOX)
Decadence HG Mesh Body Decadence HG Clothes any shop
but difficult get BODIES...
-------
Any Needfull Thing here......

The first and only beer spa in Opensim. An experience of a special kind, after 5 minutes in the beer bath you get the smell of beer in your real nose. We are looking forward to your visit!
Even water becomes a noble drop when mixed with hops and malt!

Unsere Topmodels Bad und Siwas präsentieren den neuen Dale Partner Herbstlook! lol - Our top models Bad and Siwas present the new Dale Partner autumn look! lol (erhältlich ab Morgen - available from tomorrow)

Local Colors Village Shoppes is now open! Merchants include: Blooming Lady, Golpher's Garage, Loose Cannon Shipyard, Simply Lily's, Soup, Mo's Funo's, Pirate Air, InMotion, Svaroski Design, Festive Occasions, Seda-Signature, River Island Woman's Fashions, Black Cockatoo Creations, and Uniquely Quintessa!! There is a Podex machine in the mall area for purchasing our local Discovery Grid Currency (DC). Find us here: hop://discoverygrid.net:8002/Local%20Colors/379/232/108

Elas Fashion has moved to a new region.
A whole mall awaits you.
have fun and look around

Elas Fashion ist auf eine neue Region gezogen.
Eine ganze mall erwartet euch .
habt viel spass und schaut euch um

Purple Rain, Polkadot Panties, and Pinto Beans...
There are ways to improve your graphics. If you know in firestorm how to get into debug settings under advanced on the menu. (advanced does not show up by default and must be enabled.) You can find these settings. renderautomutesurfacevolume (140) renderautohidesurfacearea (180) rendersculptsatthreshold (2) setting these here thangs will help you not to crash from gpu crashers, and will keep stuff that uses a ton of { gpu card memory } from slowing down your system. Play with them thar settings a l'il bit and find out if you can adjust them better on your system and what and all.

I Have Nothing To Say.
To quote the always enigmatic John Cage, "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."

Get the outfit at:

Oh HELLO: Outfits that say, I don't know. Something?
grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Xinashi

New release ** EUROPEAN BLACK ALDER TREES PACK (Alnus glutinosa) ** FREE and FULL PERM at FOREST AREA BOX 02*** Seasonal textures included (1024x1024 pixels or 128x128px for helping reducing graphic lag on region ) - Leaves with a smooth animation.
PS. Alder trees that were already on FLORA, I renamed them. They are now called Gray Alder Trees (Alnus incana) so both now look like trees in RL.Enjoy :)

Amoa Nude Beach has been re-designed, re-built and re-opened.

After a few false starts, a serious error was discovered that took time to correct. Because of this, the region needed to be rebuilt. While doing the re-build, changes, improvements and additions were made. Still a little work in progress on some of the newer areas and features, but overall, Amoa Nude Beach is open.

We hope that you will enjoy it and use it as so many were upset when it was taken offline for the rebuild. We don't advertise it, we don't look for big crowds but we hope that people will use it for more than just a pickup joint.

There are sections for swingers and group sex, and as always MOST pieces of furniture are for play. (Can't have you banging on the tables in the food court though lol).

Again, hope you use and enjoy it.

Announcing a new hud... "Wizardry". It is a magical hud with many more powers than all the other huds combined. It was created by a great Wizard at the College of Scripting Magic in the FreeMagic region. He left it there just waiting for the right one to discover it. The right one is NOT priscilla kleenex. When you arrive at FreeMagic on your journey to find this great magic, you must take your time... Amble across the long rope bridge, do not fly or even attempt to. If you attempt to fly you will be kicked, if you are kicked 3 times you will forevermore be banned from the land of Magic. Slowly walk across the long rope bridge from the FreeMagic store to the Wizard's castle, then go around back and walk up the long bridge from the Wizard's castle to the College of Scripting Magic. Inside is a test for those who are worthy to receive the hud. But if you flew or attempted to fly, you will not be able to take the Hud. So Mote it Be! You are forwarned! Now a word to the wise young traveller.... "In the Play of Bright And Dark, of Day and Knight, The Magic Starts. Thus Heed Ye Well This Worded Art, Let Clever Play Reflections Part!"...

What is an idiom? No, it's not a very stupid person. That would be an idiot. The praise "it's raining cats and dogs" is a common English idiom. Literally, that sentence would mean animals are falling from the clouds. What the idiom actually means is that it is raining very heavily. But, why should we care about what the idiom actually means? At the "Best in Taking Common Idioms Literally" Event, we want to see someone make animals, specifically canines and felines, fall from the clouds.

Taking Common Idioms Literally is not all that hard, really. "Break a leg?" Just have an alt on hand with a baseball bat. "Get bent out of shape?" Just have an alt on hand with a baseball bat. "Going batty?" You could literally transform yourself into bat (or what some call "a rat with wings"). Or you could artfully express both the idiomatic and literal meaning of "going batty" by having a mentally deranged alt on hand with a baseball bat. Works for me!

The prize? A cake! What will you do to get everyone to say "that takes the cake"? Have a gander at 150 Common & Difficult Idioms with Examples
https://leverageedu.com/blog/idioms-with-examples/

Working on my hypergates today I looked at Sketchfab to see if there were any cool gates created. I found a VERY cool gate that would be perfect as a hypergate, Skull Gate by https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/skull-gate-f7cdefd62292411... I have it sitting at Monentes Jewelry at the front of the building outside. Please feel free to grab a copy and please never sell! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

The final weekend of OpensimFest's music events kicks off at 9am SLT, that's 18.00 in Central Europe.
The first of three days of DJs singers, musicians and fun.
Come on over to grid.opensimfest.com:8022:Event1

A word to the wise... Please use extreme caution if you choose to execute the console command "fcache clear". When I discovered this command I thought it was wonderful because it would unblock the ability to tp to another grid when it became blocked because you'd just been there earlier, and the map would report "region not found". Here is the reason. While fcache clear does a great job clearing the fcache, it has some other side effects. In my case it caused a discrepancy between my mariadb database, and my rezzed world, which resulted in the items in the cache i cleared being deleted in my database. I wasn't even aware until about a week later. To make matters worse I advised a friend to use fcache clear, and it destroyed his grid. We realized what was happening and stopped using it, and the problems went away, though he was quite angry with me for some time. So if you do use it, just be aware that problems may be down the road to show up yet, including many items missing textures from your database when you have to restore it for whatever reason. So I apologize to anyone I recommended to use this function. Don't do it. It's for your own good.

I would like to thank Priscilla Kleenex (from what-so-ever-grid) for her tireless efforts in finding faulty settings on our SIMs and bringing them to our attention. I could once more fix a couple of flying trees I had unintentionally made moveable when I wanted to make them copyable. Without the help of those voluntary security-testers like Mrs. Kleenex I would never have noticed.

Ich möchte Priscilla Kleenex (von what-so-ever-grid) für ihre unermüdlichen Bemühungen danken, fehlerhafte Einstellungen auf unseren SIMs zu finden und uns darauf aufmerksam zu machen. Ich konnte wieder einmal ein paar fliegende Bäume reparieren, die ich versehentlich beweglich gemacht hatte, als ich sie kopierbar machen wollte. Ohne die Hilfe dieser freiwilligen Sicherheitstester wie Frau Kleenex wäre mir das nie aufgefallen.

SAVE THE DATE & TIMES FOLKS!

HAPPY REZDAY JUNE AVATARS!!
THIS PARTY'S FOR YOU! - COME JOIN US

◂◄◀ JUNE REZDAY PARTY ▶►▸
» FEATURING
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴10:00am ∵∴ ❈ CLAIREDE DIRVAL
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴11:00am ∵∴ ❈ BART HOORENBEEK
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴12:00pm ∵∴ ❈ JAKBNIMBL RIDDLE
» Шhere: ✫ EVENT PLAZA - OSGRID✫
» Dress: ❈ ∵∴ Casual ∵∴ ❈
◂◄◀ MAP ▶►▸ hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza

We're all used to OpenSim's standard rear camera angle. A camera that floats more than three and a half metres above the ground. But seriously, this camera angle has got a whole lot of issues.

Sure, it can be practical when building. But first of all, it requires buildings which are even more ridiculously out-of-scale than the avatars created by fresh Second Life converts. Otherwise, the camera would constantly bump into the ceiling or even clip through it.

Besides, it suggests that this is your eye level. You don't see the world from your avatar's point of view. 3.60m (12') doors with handles on actual eye level or even higher don't seem strange to you at all, nor do living-rooms with ceiling heights akin to cathedrals or chin-high handrails.

Last but not least, high-hovering cameras are so 2000s. Nowadays, "shoulder cams" at the same height as the character's eyes are all the rage in video games. And you can have them in OpenSim as well.

Here are two settings I've found to work well.

"Standard" shoulder view, right of centre:

Camera Offset:
X -0.700
Y -0.400
Z -0.300

Focus Offset:
X 1.000
Y -0.400
Z 0.700

Scale:
1.000

Alternative shoulder view, left of centre:

Camera Offset:
X -0.700
Y 0.400
Z -0.300

Focus Offset:
X 1.000
Y 0.400
Z 0.700

Scale:
1.000