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An Art Hive is a community art studio that welcomes everyone as an artist. From an art pop-up in a local library to a community studio or gallery, at its heart, an Art Hive is about inclusion, respect and learning. It's a welcoming place to talk, make art and build communities. Responding in creative ways to things that matter.

Come and contribute to our Virtual Hive and find out more about the history of the project here: https://arthives.org

New downloads OAR and RAW

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Rakis Heron

Your contact person for grid (no drama)
and hometown sim advisor.
Owner of grid. 8 domains, 6 servers, 5 works,
hardware, software, business internet and
all bills every month. $ 300 / month.
PayPal donations are always welcome.

For infos and account help visit our website.

https://www.rakisworld.ch

Welcome to Sharann's Shekinah Homestead, owner Sharann from USA

hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Sharann's Lovely Old Town

Welcome to Camiquin Island, Owner Raklyn from Philippines

Stark Island

Terrain structures with rain and sound effects.
Everything for free OS compliant C/M/T

hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Ocean

New store in town: Terra Mater - Terrain Textures

Roadworks are finished for now, all paths lead somewhere ...

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FLEETWOOD BEACH PLATES 1 - Say Good bye to terraforming

One request in advance: Please give me feedback on whether you find the plates useful and whether I should continue developing them. Your feedback helps me with my work. Thank you very much!

FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates: Flexible Terrain for OpenSim – Without Traditional Terraforming

With the FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates, landscapes in OpenSim can be designed much more flexibly than with standard sim terrain alone. Instead of laboriously raising, lowering, and repeatedly adjusting the fixed region terrain, you build your landscape from freely placeable mesh terrain plates.

This makes it possible to create beaches, dunes, forest areas, transition zones, paths, slopes, and entire landscape sections exactly where you need them.

The major advantage: the plates remain objects. You can move, rotate, scale, replace, or completely rearrange them at any time without permanently altering the actual sim terrain.

Seamless Textures Across Multiple Plates

The system automatically aligns textures to the region coordinates. This means the texture does not restart on every individual plate, but continues across neighboring plates.

The size, position, and rotation of each terrain plate are automatically taken into account. If a plate is moved, rotated, or scaled, the texture alignment adjusts accordingly.

The result is a continuous landscape in which the individual terrain plates are much less noticeable as separate objects.

Automatic Tiling

The texture is automatically adjusted to the size of the plate.

One texture tile corresponds to a fixed terrain size within the system. Larger plates automatically receive more repeats, while smaller plates receive fewer.

This means the user does not have to manually adjust texture repeats, offsets, and rotation for every single terrain plate.

Central Texture Control

Clicking on a terrain plate opens the integrated texture menu.

The textures stored in the plate’s inventory are detected automatically and can be selected directly. No complicated naming convention is required.

You can also use your own textures without any problem. The only requirement is that they are seamless, tileable textures.

Simply place new textures into the terrain plate’s inventory. The system detects them automatically and displays them in the texture menu.

When a texture is changed, it is automatically applied to all related terrain plates within the same group.

For example, an entire beach area can be redesigned with a single texture change.

Brightness and Color Are Synchronized Too

Not only the texture itself can be changed together.

The surface color and brightness can also be synchronized within a group. This allows an entire landscape area to be made lighter, darker, warmer, or cooler without having to edit every plate individually.

The alpha value can also be synchronized.

This is especially useful when different terrain materials need to be visually matched to each other.

Terrain Groups

The terrain plates are already assigned to different terrain groups such as Beach, Forest, Dunes, or Rock.

Texture, brightness, and alpha are synchronized only within the corresponding group. A change made to the Beach Plates, for example, does not affect the Forest Plates.

This allows several different landscape areas on the same sim to be designed and adjusted independently.

Advantages Compared to Traditional Sim Terraforming

Traditional terraforming works well for the large basic shapes of a region, but it is considerably more limited when it comes to precise landscape forms.

The FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates offer much more freedom.

The plates can be freely moved, rotated, scaled, copied, deleted, or replaced at any time. This makes it easy to redesign a landscape later without having to rework the actual sim terrain.

Specially shaped mesh plates also make it possible to create terrain forms that are difficult or impossible to achieve with normal terraforming, such as:

gentle dunes,

beach slopes,

embankments,

hills,

depressions,

terrain steps,

shoreline areas,

or transitions into the water.

This is especially useful for beaches. A plate can, for example, begin to slope gently from its center and continue down to water level. This creates a controlled beach transition without having to lower large areas of the sim terrain.

Another advantage is the freedom of height. Mesh terrain does not have to be used only at ground level. Raised landscapes, terraces, sky landscapes, floating islands, or additional terrain levels can also be created.

The terrain plates function as modular landscape building blocks. Different shapes can be combined freely, for example flat plates, hills, dunes, depressions, beach slopes, transition pieces, or edge sections.

And if the landscape needs to be changed later, the entire terrain does not have to be rebuilt. The relevant plates can simply be moved, replaced, or removed.

FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates - Modular. Seamless. Freely placeable. Group-controlled.

For OpenSim landscapes that can be designed, expanded, and changed flexibly at any time.

You can find the plates in my main store.
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DJane Dragon at The Coffin Club on Carpe Noctem
Sun 6th Sep 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
I love gothic rock, my sets are lively and often feature the less well known european artists
I play Hardrock, Metall, EBM-Industrial, German Gothic Rock at the Coffin Club.

Hope to see you there.
DJ Dragon
The Coffin Club
The Coffin Club a gothic club in a church surrounded by a cemetry, furnished with coffins, music is gothic, rock, metal, EBM and Industrial.

IM for a teleport

listen to: http://dragon.radioamv.com

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DJ MANDY @ Carnal Islands Club Flirtatious Venue this Morning

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Gary aka Sid Slade singing in Second Life, many years ago.
I've decided to optimize a video (link above) made by one of his friends.
I'm thinking about making a tribute event for him at Abyss Club.
He died 6 months ago. R.I.P. Bro, gone but never forgotten.
🌙 **BLOODMOON MARKETPLACE IS NOW OPEN!** 🛍️



After many weeks of development and successful testing, we are happy to announce that the **BloodMoon Marketplace is now officially open!** 🎉

🔗 **Marketplace:**
https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace

📖 **Help Center:**
https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace/help.php

⚠️ **The Marketplace is brand new, so there are currently only a few products available.**

This launch is therefore also an invitation to **OpenSimulator creators**: if you create clothing, objects, buildings, scripts, animations, decorations, vehicles or any other content, you are welcome to create your own shop and start building the Marketplace with us. 🏪✨

The goal now is to gradually fill the Marketplace with creations from the community.

🛒 **FOR BUYERS**

You can browse shops and products, use favorites and carts, and purchase products directly from the Marketplace.

Products can be offered:

🪙 in **BM$**
💳 through **PayPal**
🔄 or with **both payment methods**

Whenever possible, we encourage **0 BM$ transactions and free sharing**, as BloodMoon is not intended to become a commercial grid.

Of course, every creator remains completely free to choose how they distribute their creations and to set their own prices.

🏪 **FOR CREATORS & SELLERS**

Creating a shop is free.

Creators can publish their products, organize them into one or several shops and choose how they want to distribute them.

💳 Creators who wish to monetize their work can use **PayPal**.

PayPal payments are sent **directly to the seller's own PayPal account**.

❤️ **BloodMoon takes no commission on Marketplace sales.**

PayPal's own transaction fees may still apply.

Depending on PayPal availability, buyers may also be able to pay by **bank card without having a PayPal account**.

📦 **THE MAGIC BOX**

Products are connected to the Marketplace through the official **BloodMoon Marketplace Magic Box**.

Simply:

📦 Rez your Magic Box on BloodMoon
🔑 Activate it from your Seller Area
📥 Add your products
🔄 Let the Magic Box synchronize automatically
🏪 Create your shop
🛍️ Publish your products
🚚 The Magic Box handles deliveries automatically

🏠 **NO LAND FOR YOUR MAGIC BOX?**

No problem!

BloodMoon is currently preparing a dedicated **Magic Box Hub** region with **small parcels provided completely free of charge** for Marketplace sellers who need a place to keep their Magic Box online.

🚧 **The region is still being prepared and the parcels are not available yet. They should be ready within the next few days.**

Once opened, you will simply be able to search the World Map for:

🌐 **Magic Box Hub**

Available parcels will be rentable for **0 BM$** and reserved for Marketplace Magic Boxes.

👤 **BLOODMOON ACCOUNT**

A **BloodMoon account is required to use the Marketplace**, purchase products and access seller features.

Creating a BloodMoon account is free.

❤️ **OUR PHILOSOPHY**

BloodMoon Marketplace was not created to turn BloodMoon into a commercial grid.

Its purpose is first and foremost to provide the OpenSimulator community with a modern and simple way to **share creations and distribute content**.

We therefore encourage creators who wish to share freely to offer their products for **0 BM$**.

At the same time, creators who wish to monetize their original work are free to do so through BM$ or PayPal.

**The choice always belongs to the creator.**

🌱 The Marketplace is only just beginning.

If you are a creator, **come create your shop, publish your creations and help us build the BloodMoon Marketplace!**

🌙 https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace

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🌙 **LE BLOODMOON MARKETPLACE EST OUVERT !** 🛍️



Après plusieurs semaines de développement et de nombreux tests concluants, nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le **BloodMoon Marketplace est désormais officiellement ouvert !** 🎉

🔗 **Marketplace :**
https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace

📖 **Centre d'aide :**
https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace/help.php

⚠️ **Le Marketplace vient tout juste d'ouvrir et il contient donc encore très peu de produits.**

Ce lancement est avant tout aussi une invitation aux **créateurs OpenSimulator** : si vous créez des vêtements, objets, bâtiments, scripts, animations, décorations, véhicules ou tout autre contenu, vous êtes les bienvenus pour créer votre propre boutique et participer avec nous au développement du Marketplace. 🏪✨

L'objectif est maintenant de remplir progressivement le Marketplace avec les créations de la communauté.

🛒 **POUR LES ACHETEURS**

Vous pouvez parcourir les boutiques et les produits, utiliser les favoris et les paniers, puis effectuer vos achats directement depuis le Marketplace.

Les produits peuvent être proposés :

🪙 en **BM$**
💳 via **PayPal**
🔄 ou avec **les deux moyens de paiement**

Lorsque cela est possible, nous encourageons les **transactions à 0 BM$ et le partage gratuit**, car BloodMoon n'a pas vocation à devenir une grille commerciale.

Chaque créateur reste bien entendu entièrement libre de choisir la manière dont il souhaite distribuer ses créations et d'en fixer le prix.

🏪 **POUR LES CRÉATEURS ET VENDEURS**

La création d'une boutique est gratuite.

Les créateurs peuvent publier leurs produits, les organiser dans une ou plusieurs boutiques et choisir la manière dont ils souhaitent les distribuer.

💳 Les créateurs qui souhaitent monétiser leur travail peuvent utiliser **PayPal**.

Les paiements PayPal sont envoyés **directement sur le propre compte PayPal du vendeur**.

❤️ **BloodMoon ne prélève aucune commission sur les ventes du Marketplace.**

Les éventuels frais de transaction propres à PayPal restent applicables.

Selon les possibilités proposées par PayPal, les acheteurs peuvent également avoir la possibilité de payer par **carte bancaire sans posséder de compte PayPal**.

📦 **LA MAGIC BOX**

Les produits sont reliés au Marketplace grâce à la **Magic Box officielle du BloodMoon Marketplace**.

Il suffit de :

📦 Rezer votre Magic Box sur BloodMoon
🔑 L'activer depuis votre espace vendeur
📥 Ajouter vos produits
🔄 Laisser la Magic Box synchroniser automatiquement son inventaire
🏪 Créer votre boutique
🛍️ Publier vos produits
🚚 La Magic Box assure ensuite automatiquement les livraisons

🏠 **PAS DE TERRAIN POUR VOTRE MAGIC BOX ?**

Aucun problème !

BloodMoon prépare actuellement une région dédiée, **Magic Box Hub**, avec de **toutes petites parcelles mises gratuitement à disposition** des vendeurs qui ont besoin d'un emplacement pour laisser leur Magic Box en ligne.

🚧 **La région est encore en cours de préparation et les parcelles ne sont donc pas encore disponibles. Elles devraient l'être d'ici quelques jours.**

Une fois la région ouverte, il suffira de rechercher sur la carte du monde :

🌐 **Magic Box Hub**

Les parcelles disponibles pourront être louées pour **0 BM$** et seront réservées aux Magic Boxes du Marketplace.

👤 **COMPTE BLOODMOON**

Un **compte BloodMoon est nécessaire pour utiliser le Marketplace**, effectuer des achats et accéder aux fonctions vendeur.

La création d'un compte BloodMoon est gratuite.

❤️ **NOTRE PHILOSOPHIE**

Le BloodMoon Marketplace n'a pas été créé pour transformer BloodMoon en grille commerciale.

Son objectif est avant tout d'offrir à la communauté OpenSimulator un moyen moderne et simple de **partager ses créations et distribuer du contenu**.

Nous encourageons donc les créateurs qui souhaitent partager librement leur travail à proposer leurs produits à **0 BM$**.

Mais les créateurs qui souhaitent monétiser leurs créations originales restent également libres de le faire en BM$ ou via PayPal.

**Le choix appartient toujours au créateur.**

🌱 Le Marketplace ne fait que commencer.

Si vous êtes créateur, **venez créer votre boutique, publier vos créations et participer à la construction du BloodMoon Marketplace !**

🌙 https://bloodmoonpack.com/Marketplace
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Bingo starts at 8:00 AM — EYES DOWN!

Who will be the first one to get the FULL CARD?
Find your lucky seat, meet up with friends, and get ready for some Bingo fun!

Location:
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LionessDreams: LOVE IT SO GLAD ITS BACK IM LOVING BINGO AND SO HAPPY THEY WAITED FOR ME..........HUGGIESSSSS 4 days ago
Ever get sick of the sheep, the lies, the cliques, the rumors, the gossip of opensim and other virtual worlds?
I'm making a list. I'm checking it twice. And i'm not gonna tell the world who has been naughty or nice.
I have more class than that. But for certain people out there who would spread evil, lies, and gossip, some of these following songs are dedicated to you. I am sure the liars and the sheeps know who you are and who is in your clique. These are for y'all! Enjoy.

Surfacing by Slipknot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Anb7GwIXs

The Bleeding by Five Finger Death Punch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAuyEG7JPbE

The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson: a nice statement about cliques, judgement of each other, materialism, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scg4tGpBXKc

Fuck You and All Your Friends by Falling in Reverse and the brilliant Ronnie Radke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mujq-iZU35E

arabian sands: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:dune art 5 days ago

schönes wochenende euch und viel Spaß