As I sit here listening to Bluez Preacher, the last act of OSG15B, I can't help but feel a sense of love of community and pride for a wonderful weekend long birthday celebration event. The dj's and live musicians were all Amazing. Thank you Aussie for keeping things running smoothly with backgrounds and streams! Amazing JOB! Dan Banner.. thank YOU for asking me to to co-ordinate this wonderful Birthday weekend of live musicians, Thank you for trusting in me and giving me the opportunity to help give OSGRID a wonderful weekend Birthday event! The musicians we booked for this weekend were all amazing! THANK YOU for sharing your time and talent with us here in open sim! To all of the Musicians from SL, THANK YOU for taking the time to come to open sim and make avatars, and learn how we do things here! THANK YOU for your patience and understanding as you put those avatars together! lol.. YOU ARE ALL DIAMONDS in my eyes! Thank you just doesnt seem to fit what Im trying to say. Music is the universal language.. you dont even needs words.. just the melody will make you feel.. we all share that and have that in common.. it truly doesnt matter where you are from, what you do for work,what color your skin is, what religion you are, what sexuality you are, what political views you have etc etc.. MUSIC embraces us all the same way.. mentally.. emotionally and soulfully.. Thank you for making us all feel good this weekend.. Smyles Avery, Bart Hoorenbeek, Jack Dryden, Zoree Jupiter, Marqs DeSade, Djembe Dragonfire, Billy Talon, Clairede Dirval, Agatha Nowles, Katia Portugal, CTM Underwood, Dan Sings, Greybeard Thinker and Bluez Preacher.. THANK YOU for making this event a HUGE SUCCESS!! I hope to get to help out with this again! :) hugs.. xo Rogue

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

Things that are going on in the world today are causing division between friends and family, so there is no surprise that it is happening here in Opensim as well.

We can't always agree on everything in life and so I make no apology for standing for what i believe in. If that offends you even to the point that our friendships break over such things, so be it. There is nothing worse than lying to yourself to please others. If those friendships cannot stand a few disagreements every now and then, then they not really your friends in the first place and do not mourn their loss.

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.

Ever want to have your own Space Base? Created by @Fred Beckhusen and @Joe Builder Silent Refueling Base has everything you need for a working Space Base. There is a big rig carrying geoms. A CH-47D Chinook v1.0 USCG, C5 Galaxy, Towers, Satellite Dishes all the vehicles you will need too! When I asked Fred about it he said "What it might look launching the Valley Forge into space. The movie "Silent Running", with Bruce Dern, did not show this part. It is fan fiction, and has the same Aircraft Carrier "USN Valley Forge" they used as a movie set." If you would like to visit the original base please find it here

Please add this to your map: www.outworldz.com:9000:Silent Refueling Base
You will find it in your drop down list of Outworldz free .oars. Thank you @Fred Beckhusen #oar #oars #ferdfrederix#fred #JoeBuilder

Outworldz-DreamGrid .oars
Fred Beckhusen designs and creates .oars to share with his Outworldz-Dreamgrid members. The OAR is licensed exclusively for use in DreamWorld Grids. CC-BY-NC, Outworldz, LLC.

Mind Odyssey art exhibit is a spectacle of vibrant colors and animation. If you are free this weekend, please consider taking the time to visit this exhibit. Art is presented by these artists:
Nyx Breen
Cherry Manga
Amaranthim Talon
Shirl Tainted Angel
Bibiana has beautiful pieces about too!
and me~
A special thank you to Reyn Softly for creating this great region! When here you must view the land looking down from above, you will see a very cool head residing here! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey
continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey

It's coming....
OpenSimFest begins on Friday, 8 July at 9am PST (Gridtime)
grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome
Music, dance, poetry and more !
Friday's performers are
Zoree Jupiter - Remy Farman - Karima Hoisan - RoseDrop
DJ Emar - DJ Jahka Flow - Khiron Ametza - Joka - Rogue Galaxy
DJ Carbo - Da Bluez Preacher - DJ Walter Balazic
Come enjoy the entertainment, visit the shops and exhibits, and make new friends!

This may just be my opinion, but I believe that OpenSim should be represented in the Metaverse Standards Forum (https://metaverse-standards.org/) in some way.

If you're wondering what the MSF is: They try to develop and design from scratch what we've already had for 15 years as OpenSim and for 14 years as the Hypergrid.

For one, I guess nobody there even knows that OpenSim exists, not as a platform, not as several thousand virtual worlds. Even Intel may have forgotten their early engagement in OpenSim.

Besides, they could learn from OpenSim what they're bound to learn from the mistakes they'll make. And they could see what OpenSim has done right that they should do, too.

It's just a pity, I guess, that there's nobody who's able and willing to represent the OpenSim ecosystem as a whole.

(By the way, Linden Lab isn't a member either.)

Nyx Breen has completed "Pain Passes" exhibit. This exhibit is especially meaningful to me, thank you Nyx for showing me through your art-pain indeed will pass. continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey

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.

Pienso que la magia de los mundos virtuales complementa nuestro mundo real,es por ello que muchos expresan su creatividad,sus sueños,sus pasiones,su sensibilidad y ternura en los mundos que crean para que TODOS puedan disfrutarlo,si vienes a OpenSim a perturbar la armonía o causar desunión es mejor que retomes los problemas de tu RL porque se están proyectando en tu vida virtual #unidosenopensim FB

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