Come play Greedy with Clifford Hanger and Friends at October Park!
🎲🍂 Join the fun at AMV AutumnFest in the October Region
Clifford Hanger hosts a lively round of Greedy starting at 8:00am Grid Time. Bring your luck, your laughter, and your competitive spirit!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/AMV%20AutumnFest%20Octob...

What is PBR?
PBR (Physically Based Rendering) is a rendering approach that uses physics-based calculations for more realistic lighting, while Blinn-Phong is a non-physically based, older shading model that approximates specular highlights. PBR uses techniques like energy conservation and microfacet models to create more accurate materials that react realistically to light, whereas Blinn-Phong often produces a plastic-like, less realistic appearance. PBR is generally more computationally efficient and produces more consistent results because it focuses on the material's properties rather than the final rendered output.

PBR (Physically Based Rendering)
- Based on physics: PBR is a collection of techniques that aim to mimic how light interacts with surfaces in the real world.
- Realistic output: It produces more realistic results because it uses inputs like the material's microfacet properties and energy conservation to calculate how light reflects.
- Consistent results: The final appearance is more predictable and consistent because it is not based on a specific "look" but on physical principles.
- Efficient: PBR is often more efficient, as it relies on a smarter implementation where a single material object contains all the necessary textures and a single drag-and-drop can apply them.
- Example textures: Uses textures like metallic, roughness, and normal maps to define the material's physical properties.

Blinn-Phong
- Approximation: It is a non-physically based shading model that approximates the appearance of light reflection.
- Less realistic output: It can produce a "plastic" or less realistic look because it doesn't account for real-world light behavior.
- Fixed pipeline: It was developed for older fixed-function graphics pipelines and works by calculating a specular highlight based on the angle between the view direction and a halfway vector, rather than the more complex rendering equation.
- Texture maps: It typically uses diffuse, specular, and other texture maps to define its appearance.


So what does that all mean? It means PBR is more efficient and better at handling how light reacts with a material, producing a more realistic rendering. So PBRs are considered materials and not simply textures, because all the bumps, surface roughness and textures are included on one packaged resource.

In the upper image, I put a light source between two cubes.
LEFT: PBR
RIGHT: Blinn_phong
You can see how the light reflects correctly on the left and the right looks more plasticy

In the bottom picture is:
LEFT: PBR Drag and drop
MIDDLE: Blinn-Phong Adjusted, meaning I turned down the default shininess
RIGHT: Default Blinn-Phong No adjustments made

Get ready to dance with DJ Naya!

The Spanish DJ herself is taking over the Pumpkin Stage from 2 to 3 PM at Halloween Town, bringing the spookiest beats and hauntingly good vibes to keep your Autumnfest energy alive!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Halloween%20Town/352/310...

Don’t miss it — DJ Naya is here to make your Halloween groove come alive!

Live Performer Cowboy Dave King at the Pumpkin Stage!

Saddle up and get ready for one hour of pure Country and Rock with the one and only Cowboy Dave King!

He’s taking the Pumpkin Stage with his signature sound, great tunes, and that down-home banter his fans love.

Location: hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Halloween%20Town/352/310...

Don’t miss this boot-stompin’ good time — Cowboy Dave King is live and ready to rock your AutumnFest!

Belly Dancing Under the Falling Leaves! 10am - 12Noon Gridtime

Join Cataplexia and Cliff for a mesmerizing belly dancing experience at Autumnfest, where music, rhythm, and autumn’s beauty come together in perfect harmony.
Happening now on the AMV Autumnfest Stage Region — come dance, sway, and celebrate the season!
Hop: hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/AMV%20AutumnFest%20Stage...

Dave’s Spooktacular Video Show – Starting Now!
Head over to the Main Stage on AMV Autumnfest Stage and join Dave for a spine-tingling visual treat!

The show runs from 11am to 1pm — packed with hauntingly good tunes and spooky video magic!

Jump on over to: hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/AMV%20AutumnFest%20Stage...

Don’t miss this frightfully fun Autumnfest highlight!

Hi Folks...
I wanted to close the 2 Halloweens sims very soon at the end of the weekend. Thank you for visiting the sims and the interest in it..
But I leave with a big bang . Forget about the cartoon ghostbusters. Meet the real ghostbusters! Here are Peter,Egon,Winston,Ray and Janine. Complete with the library ghost ,slimer, a plasma gun and a proton backpack. Background not included, make you own story! Have fun and thank you again!

Es ist Samstag und damit Zeit für GAY EURODANCE
Feiert mit uns die Freiheiten des Undergrounds ohne jeglichen Kleidungerzwang. Erscheint wie ihr es wollt.
Break the fucking rules!!!!
adult-life.de:8002:Shopping Fun

BK-Mode für Xara-Petite – Kleinformat, Großformat, kein Format.

Diese Outfits sind nicht gemacht für Maße – sie sind gemacht für Maßlosigkeit. Für Avatare, die sich nicht einpassen, sondern ausbrechen. Xara-Petite ist keine Größe, sondern ein Systemfehler im Raster der Konvention. Und BK? BK liefert die Uniform für genau diesen Bruch.

Ob Latex, Layering oder Cutouts: Diese Kollektion ist eine Einladung zur Übertreibung. Für alle, die sich nicht fragen, ob etwas passt – sondern ob es provoziert. Die Silhouette ist scharf, die Farben sind laut, die Texturen sind unverschämt. Und das ist erst der Anfang.

BK-Mode für Xara-Petite: Weil Stil nicht skaliert wird – er wird gesetzt.

🌿 Regency-Abend in der Everdance Hall 🌿
Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2025 – 20:00 Uhr
Tauche ein in die Welt der Eleganz und Anmut – in die Zeit des Regency.
Bei sanftem Kerzenlicht, Musik und Gesprächen erleben wir einen Abend voller Stil, Charme und klassischer Atmosphäre.
🎩 Dresscode: Regency – inspiriert von der Mode um 1820.
(Kleider, Anzüge am Landepunkt der Region)
✨ Die Everdance Hall öffnet ihre Türen für einen Abend der besonderen Art. ✨
hg.lifehaven.ch:8002:EverdanceHall

Xinashi Radio
Today: The Americana Mix
http://aegura.harriman4.com:8038/nico.mp3

3+ days of music cued up in the auto-DJ. Tune in if you'd like. Feel free to use the stream on your land.

About Americana:
https://www.allmusic.com/style/americana-ma0000004415

Back to the carefree time .
Let's shout it out to the world
“Love, Peace and Happiness”
❤ WHO: DJ Nasti
❤ WHAT: ♪ 70's,
❤ WHERE: ♫ TOSCA ♫
❤ WHEN: 10 SLT !!!!

♫ ♬ ♪♫ ♬ ♪ ♥ ♡ If you′re going to Tosca
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to Tosca
You′re gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to Tosca
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of Tosca
Gentle people with flowers in their hair. ♫ ♬ ♪♫ ♬ ♪ ♥ ♡

Girls Power&Richi

Lasst den zum Club beben bringen!
Macht euch bereit für einen Abend, die ihr so schnell nicht vergessen werdet! Direkt aus den Niederlanden kommt die unvergleichliche DJ TANYA live zu euch, um die Tanzfläche in Flammen zu setzen!
Let's get the club rocking!
Get ready for an evening you won't soon forget! Straight from the Netherlands, the incomparable DJ TANYA is coming live to set the dance floor on fire!
moonrose-grid.de:8002:Moonrose Club

Alina Custom Vehicles.
Bringing unusual and unseen vehicles in Opensim.
Classic American vehicles, Nascar race cars, Huge Hotrod range, Monster Trucks, Heavy Commercial Vehicles, Agricultural Vehicles, Dinkie Vehicle section , Pick up trucks, British vehicles, just about something for everyone..
Selection of vehicles for Big Girls
In region Teleporter
New Vehicles added every week
ALL VEHICLES ARE DRIVEABLE
All new Vendors for an easier experience
Complete sim full of vehicles, almost 250 different vehicles.
All vehicles can be altered or modified should you need, adjustments or additions happily done on request..
Hope to see you soon.
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/luna/126/128/22
Yes, I love Betty :)
Alina.

Vorankündigung

✨ Regency Party – Coming Soon ✨
Ein Hauch von Eleganz und Geschichte zieht bald über die Everdance Hall.
Erlebt eine unvergessliche Nacht im Stil der Regency-Ära – mit Tanz, Mode und Musik vergangener Zeiten.

🎩 Dresscode: Regency Mode (Kleider & Anzüge am Landepunkt von EverdanceHall)
🎶 Ort: EverdanceHall
📅 Datum: wird in Kürze bekannt gegeben

Bleibt gespannt – die Einladung folgt bald!

BK-Shop präsentiert: Gianni – Stil in sechs Facetten

Sechs Outfits, ein gemeinsamer Takt: kraftvoll, klar und kompromisslos. Die neue Linie im BK-Shop inszeniert Mode als Haltung – mit Schnitten, die provozieren, und Details, die dominieren. Jeder Look ist ein Dialog zwischen urbaner Coolness und luxuriöser Präzision.

Ob Leder, Denim oder grafische Statements – diese Kollektion spielt nicht mit Trends, sie setzt sie. Für alle, die sich nicht anpassen, sondern abheben. Für alle, die wissen: Stil ist kein Zufall, sondern Entscheidung.

BK-Shop – wo Mode Charakter zeigt.

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Khiron Ametza Live
Monday, October 13th, 2025
Join us for an hour listening to great music among wonderful people!
Bring your happiness, family and friends!!!

2 pm @ Membertou Gardens
groovyverse.com:8002:Membertou Gardens
hop://groovyverse.com:8002/Membertou%20Gardens/572/72/42

For this post, I’m breaking my long-standing code to speak only in Morse code. Is anyone aware of the OWS forums? Is anyone reading them? Is anyone making legitimate use of them? I have an idea about how to clean up the front page Box using the General Forum. That will be a follow-up post. But first, here is what you will find in OSW Forums.

General – Being used primarily by one user for posts about general stuff it seems.

Help – Posts from people who are actually looking for help. Yippy!

* OpenSim – Being used for event announcements that will never been seen, and by people who won’t pay and support the site by making event announcements on the front page. Things went bad in the forum in the last year. Before then, there were legit posts. The only legit, non-event promoting, post in the last year was about "Age Verification strategies for OpenSimulator and the HG." As an aside, have you met people with profiles that say they are Age Verified. How, exactly?

* SatyrFarms – Now this is a weird one. Spammed by https://opensimworld.com/user/musajackson4 to promote himself as a Witchcraft Zoodoo Black Magic Spell Caster. People complain that Satyr doesn’t moderate OSW enough in general, but he hasn’t cleaned up spam in his own forum for almost 12 weeks. But OWS is largely a labor of love, so give the guy a break – especially if you don’t pay to support the site. But maybe Musajackson4 can cast a Troll-Be-Gone Spell? Nah.

* News – Well, this will not be news. Being used for event announcements that will never been seen, and by people who won’t pay and support the site by making event announcements on the front page. Seeing a pattern here. Deadbeats abound. However, there was a post saying "Wish the news was actually just news, not just advertising drowning out all the bits of news we have".

Technology -- posts from people who are actually looking for help with technology issues. Well done!

* Gaming – see the comment about the *OpenSim, and *News Forums. But there is some good news, I guess. Other than two posts this year, all of the posts are older than one year. Perhaps they realized that their event posts were not being seen?

Feedback – Well, there is this post with an Advertising and Events Forum Suggestion
“It would be great to have specific advertising and events form sections. It might (but we can't guarantee) prevent/reduce the instance of people posting their new product or party everywhere else”. +

There is a forum of sorts for event announcements. It’s call the Front Page. There is a forum for advertising also. It’s called paying for ads. Other than 2 recent posts with genuine feedback, the last authentic feedback was posted 2 years ago. So, being used legitimately, but not being used.

There is no way to clean up the forums. But I’m thinking the General Forum can be used, legitimately, as a way to clean up the Box. Details to come.

At landing…come in and grab your Halloween dance & song…fun you can share with your friends. Many more are coming with new update HUDs. Get ready to showcase your best moves and enjoy a spooky atmosphere filled with music and laughter. Don’t miss out on the chance to create unforgettable memories with your friends this Halloween season!

The Haunted Halloween Isles are a series of islands created by Zuzu Bahro, Queila Hendel, Even Dymas and Safine Mahoe for your Halloween fun! If you do not like Horror, visit the Pumpkin Patch for Autumn colors and endless fun!

As you set foot onto the Haunted Halloween Isles, an unnatural chill coils around your spine like a ghostly serpent. The wind is sharp, laced with whispers—fragments of forgotten souls murmuring secrets from beyond the grave. Fog crawls low across the ground, wrapping around your ankles like clawed fingers. Somewhere in the distance, a bell tolls once... then falls silent. Your journey begins at the desolate ruins of the Zombie Hunt.
Once a forgotten outpost, now a cursed graveyard of civilization, this skeletal city groans with the echoes of dark resurrection. The dead have returned—but not as the mindless, staggering husks you remember. These zombies remember.
Eyes flicker with recognition. They watch. They wait. They plan. Gone are the days of blind hunger. These reanimated horrors stalk the living like predators, their movements calculated, deliberate—a mockery of life, with the cunning of the grave.
Ash clings to the air, thick and acrid, as if the world itself were still smoldering from an ancient fire. The ground beneath your boots crunches—not with leaves, but with the brittle remains of the fallen. Bones. Skulls. Forgotten toys.
Every shadow is a potential grave. Every whisper might be your name.
This year, the hunters have become the hunted.
The ruins stretch before you, a labyrinth of sorrow and silence, the moon casting broken reflections in shards of shattered glass. Crumbling walls are streaked with old blood, faded handprints clawing at stone in desperate, silent screams. Doors hang loose on rusted hinges, and alleys seem to breathe when you're not looking.
Then—a low growl, guttural and close.
You turn.
Too late.
Something moves in the darkness, and your pulse spikes like a scream you can't let out. The game has begun.
Here, strength alone won't save you. You'll need cunning. You'll need silence. You'll need the will to outlast what hunts you. Every step must be calculated. Every breath—measured.
Because the dead are watching. And they remember your name.
Will you escape the maze of the dead…
Or join their ranks forever?

🔔 Update: Satyr Farm Bathroom 🔔

The bathroom has arrived!
With a rustic wooden tub for relaxing baths and a wash station for daily needs, it brings medieval charm to your farm.

New feature: ✨ Craftworks integration ✨
While bathing or sitting on the toilet, you can now enjoy reading the Bible, HerbalBook, MonasteryBooks, and many other Craftworks books. The quiet place thus becomes a spot of relaxation and wisdom 📚🛁