Want to bring an animated GIF into your OpenSim world?

Gif2SL by Gonta Maltz is a small, free Windows utility that converts an animated GIF into a sequential PNG texture sheet that can be animated on a prim.

You can use Gif2SL to create swimming fish, crawling ants, animated signs, and other moving effects. Once you understand how it works, there are a lot of fun possibilities for bringing extra life and movement into a region.

How to use Gif2SL:

Download Gif2SL here:
https://outworldz.com/Secondlife/posts/gif/Create-Gif-in-S...
Open the program and click Load GIF.
Select the animated GIF you want to convert.
If your GIF has a transparent background, check Transparency so the alpha channel is preserved.
Click Output.
Gif2SL converts the animation into a single PNG sprite sheet containing the animation frames.
The output filename includes the horizontal frames, vertical frames, and frames-per-second information needed for the animation.
Upload the finished PNG texture to your grid.
Place the texture into a prim along with the free animation script available from Outworldz.
The script calculates the frames and speed and plays your animation inworld.

That’s it!

Think beyond signs and screens. You can experiment with animals, insects, water effects, magical effects, moving decorations, animated displays, and whatever else you can dream up.

I’ve made swimming fish, crawling ants, flies, and animated signs with it. What will you create?

Gif2SL is free and available for Windows.

Full tutorial, Gif2SL download, script and examples:
https://outworldz.com/Secondlife/posts/gif/Create-Gif-in-S...

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I have been building a huge area representing my family's homeland of the Acadian and Gaspe' Peninsulas in Canada. I told Sam about the huge wind farm in the wilderness of Gaspesie. So he started building the 18th century version of it with old windmills powering mysterious Acadian industry. :D

BINGO BINGO BINGO ,Come join us for a few games of Bingo, Get the best Numbers and Seats, Get those points in, and who knows you will be the Bingo King Or Queen , with host Ted Junior Calling the Numbers

I was creating a Landing Area for New People from Sinespace who have never been in Opensim and I thought I would post the most basic that most people look over for Mesh Clothing. Just my thoughts. BOM is back with some Mesh avatars.

New Look, and over 200 new modern luxury cars delivered.

Easy access no lag, Aprox 2000 Vehicles in all regions tp boards to get you where you need.

Take a look at my regions

Boats Region
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Boats/516/457/23

Alina Cars & Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Vehicles/369/301/22

Alina Motorcycles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Motorcycles/181/361/22

Alina Aviation
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Aviation/539/498/21

Alina Race Cars
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Race%20Vehicles/915/185/22

More than just vehicles, lots of accessories.

If you cant find what you need ask me

Hey guys, you’ve got to check this out—there’s a massive virtual festival coming up called WolfFest 2026! It’s hosted by the Wolf Territories Grid on October 3rd and 4th, and it’s basically a huge celebration to show off all the cool regions and creative stuff their community has built. It kicks off at 8:00 AM Grid time, and they have a ton of stuff planned: Live Music: There's going to be live singers and DJs spinning tracks. Dancing: High-energy spots to just hang out and dance. Lots of outdoor adventure and unique areas to explore. If you want to come by, you just hit up this link: http://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/WolfFest%202026/30/25... You can also check out the Wolf Territories tent if you want to get more details beforehand. Definitely mark your calendars, it’s going to be a blast!

A Small but Important Update on Textures

Ina Beaumont recently asked if I could include all of the textures with my items, not just the PBR materials, so that people who are not using a PBR-enabled viewer can still enjoy them properly.

I gave this some thought. I had been hoping that most everyone was moving toward PBR-enabled viewers, but Ina made a very good point—not everyone is there yet, and not everyone uses Firestorm.

So, going forward, I will include the complete set of textures that comes with the model, including the traditional textures as well as the PBR materials.

A quick note about texture sizes: please feel free to reduce them to whatever size works best for you. I have experimented with reducing them myself, but on many of the items I find that they become noticeably blurry, so the original size generally gives me the best results.

These are the textures produced with the model pack, and with the number of things I create, I simply don't have the time to resize and test every individual texture before release.

Please resize them as you wish and use whatever gives you the best balance between appearance and performance on your grid.

Thank you, Ina, for bringing this up. It was a good suggestion, and hopefully including everything will make my creations more accessible to everyone. ♥

I have added all the textures to the Hot Damn BBQ (sorry for the return trip to grab them) Also the Butterflies are Near Choker at Monentes Jewelry. Thank you Ina for helping me to realize the obvious, not everyone has or likes PBR!

🎀 OCTOBER ROSE SPECIAL PARTY 🎀

💗 Together against breast cancer

On Tuesday, October 6, the Event Beach Club on BloodMoon Grid will turn pink for a very special evening dedicated to October Rose.

🎧 DJ CAM will be behind the decks for a night of music, dancing and good vibes — but above all, for a cause that matters. 💕

👚 DRESS CODE: ALL IN PINK! 🩷
Wear pink and come light up the dance floor with us!

🎗️ 100% of all donations received during the event will be donated to RoseUp, an association supporting women affected by cancer and defending their rights.

📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026
🕣 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM Paris Time
🕦 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM SLT
📍 Event Beach Club – BloodMoon Grid
🎧 DJ CAM

💕 Music • Awareness • Support

🎶 Come dance, have fun, wear pink… and join us for a good cause.

🎀 Together through music, united for a good cause.

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🎀 SOIRÉE SPÉCIALE OCTOBRE ROSE 🎀

💗 Ensemble contre le cancer du sein

Le mardi 6 octobre, l'Event Beach Club sur la grille BloodMoon se mettra en rose pour une soirée très spéciale dédiée à Octobre Rose.

🎧 DJ CAM sera aux platines pour une soirée de musique, de danse et de bonne humeur — mais surtout pour une cause qui nous tient à cœur. 💕

👚 DRESS CODE : TOUS EN ROSE ! 🩷
Portez du rose et venez illuminer le dancefloor avec nous !

🎗️ 100 % des dons reçus durant cette soirée seront intégralement reversés à l'association RoseUp, qui accompagne les femmes touchées par le cancer et défend leurs droits.

📅 Mardi 6 octobre 2026
🕣 20h30 – 23h30, heure de Paris
🕦 11h30 – 14h30 SLT
📍 Event Beach Club – Grille BloodMoon
🎧 DJ CAM

💕 Musique • Sensibilisation • Solidarité

🎶 Venez danser, vous amuser, vous habiller en rose… et surtout vous joindre à nous pour une belle cause.

🎀 Ensemble en musique, unis pour une belle cause.

🎯 Destination Guide — v1.1.0 Update! 🎯

You asked, it's here — full category management, right from the WordPress dashboard. No more editing code to add a new category!

✨ What's new:
🔹 New Categories screen — add, rename, reorder, and delete categories anytime
🔹 Rename a category and every destination using it updates automatically — nothing gets orphaned
🔹 Reorder categories and the in-world tile display follows your order
🔹 Smart cap keeps the category strip from turning into an endless side-scroll
🔹 Upgrading from v1.0.1? Your existing destinations and categories carry over automatically — no data loss

📦 Download:
🔗 https://github.com/mteedev/os-destination-guide-wp-plug-in...

🌐 See it live: https://nerdypappy.com/dest-guide

More control, more flexibility, still a better OpenSim experience. 🧭

Hi everyone.
An update on OpenSim-Aura, current version v1.0.6.
https://github.com/amandaleeang/OpenSim-Aura
This release adds server-side bake (Firestorm SSA). It is live now on my test sim.
Server-side bake includes:
• 2K textures
• Cached bakes and XBakes for standalone and Robust grids
• XBakes for HG visitors

It is live now in my sims.

Other highlights, implemented so far:
• Attachment scripts start on HG teleport
• Display names set from the viewer
• Display names carried on HG (OpenSim-Aura only)
• Concurrent asset transfer for copy, give folder, open object, and buy object
• Concurrent asset gather on HG teleport
• Online status kept through HG teleports
• Standalone groups in SQLite
• Standalone offline messages in SQLite
• FSAssests with SQLite

Binaries are on the Releases page.

Feedback welcome.

X Amanda

SVPortal now has a pannable world map.

Estate owners/managers can add information about their region (including images if TinyMCE is installed in SVPortal) and this information along with basic details such as name, maturity, estate, position and a "Copy HOP" button is displayed when the region is clicked in the world map.

SVPortal can be downloaded (always free) from https://www.glenysbieler.com/svportal/

CCI-Grid – Welcome, Train Station, Teleport to all locations in the CCI-Grid.
- CCI SoA Bikerworld – the longest race track in OS, 10 levels, 10 themed zones
- CCI RACING – Nürburgring with Nordschleife, 26 km race track
- Charming, hometown of the Sons of Anarchy
- CCI Lofoten with a large Viking museum
- CCI California sailing School

hg.cc-group.cc:8002:CCI Grid Welcome