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

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.

## Create Your Own Mesh Avatar with Outworldz OpenAvatar

Have you ever wanted to create your own mesh avatar instead of simply using a premade one?

Outworldz has a free tool that lets you do just that.

**OpenAvatar** is a free, open-source mesh avatar maker compatible with OpenSim and Second Life. You can use the online creator to put together your own human avatar by choosing the parts you want.

You don't need to know Blender or another 3D modeling program just to get started. OpenAvatar does the basic assembly for you.

## Start with OpenAvatar

Go to the Outworldz OpenAvatar creator:

**[Outworldz OpenAvatar Creator](https://outworldz.com/OpenAvatar/)**

Start by choosing whether you want to create a **male or female avatar**.

Then you can begin building your avatar.

## Choose a Head

Select the head you want to use.

This is one of the fun parts of OpenAvatar because you aren't simply being handed one completed character. You are choosing the pieces that will make up your avatar.

Try the available choices until you find the head that works with the character you have in mind.

## Choose a Body

Next, choose the body.

Your head and body don't have to come from one predetermined avatar. OpenAvatar lets you put the available pieces together to create your own combination.

## Choose the Legs

Choose the legs you want to use with your head and body.

At this point, you've selected the major pieces that make up your custom avatar:

**Head + Body + Legs**

OpenAvatar then combines those selections into your avatar.

## About the Skin

OpenAvatar currently provides **one skin** for the avatar.

So this isn't a skin-selection system with a range of different skin choices. The customization comes primarily from choosing and combining the available **head, body and leg components**.

Once you've created the avatar, you can take your project further yourself if you want a different appearance.

## Make It Your Own

The OpenAvatar creator gives you a starting mesh avatar, but that doesn't have to be where your creativity stops.

Creators can take their avatar further with their own clothing, hair, accessories, textures and other custom content.

If you're comfortable working with programs such as Blender, you can also use your avatar as the starting point for more advanced creative work.

Outworldz has additional avatar-development resources available as well, including male and female avatar models in formats such as **FBX, BLEND and DAE**, along with skin templates and other resources for avatar and clothing creators.

## Why OpenAvatar Is Useful for OpenSim Creators

Sometimes you don't want somebody else's finished character.

You want a starting point.

Maybe you're creating residents for your own grid. Maybe you need characters for a roleplay region. Maybe you're developing clothing or accessories. Or perhaps you simply want to experiment with making your own avatar.

OpenAvatar gives you an easy place to begin.

Choose a head.

Choose a body.

Choose the legs.

Let OpenAvatar put them together.

Then see where your own creativity takes you.

## Try It Yourself

**https://outworldz.com/OpenAvatar/mergeHuman.plx**

It's free, it's open source, and it's another great Outworldz resource for people who would rather **create** than simply settle for what everyone else is wearing.

**Build it. Customize it. Make it yours.**

Hi Starchild Shoppers!
Looks like there was an issue preventing people from rezzing assets in their own grids after purchasing them. It should be patched now!
Apologies for the inconvenience!
Aurora

We got rid of region borders. Once the rolling restart completes you will never hit a region border on Wolf Territories Grid, you wil happily sail between regions, if you come to the extremes of the grid you will "wrap around" just like a globe. In fact our new WolfViewer / WolfStorm map view release coming out today will start off with a globe as we are no longer constrained by region borders. (still works on other grids and other viewer users can still experience no region borders but it won't be as smooth as with WolfViewer), plus we are releasing automatic upgrades, proper linux packages (deb etc) for all linux.

https://youtu.be/4ubsU9N3qDc

https://cozycomfortsgrids.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/sunset-...

🌅 SUNSET PARTNERS – SPEED DATING OPENING EVENT

Looking for someone special? Join Sunset Partners Dating Agency for a relaxed and playful Speed Dating Opening Event designed to help people meet, talk, flirt and connect.

No pressure, no formal dress code — come as you are (bits covered). 😉

💕 The Event

11:00 – 11:15 SLT | WELCOME
A short introduction to Sunset Partners Dating Agency and how the dating boards work.

11:15 – 11:30 SLT | DATING WALL
Tell us a little about yourself and what kind of partner you are looking for.

11:30 – 12:30 SLT | SPEED DATING
Sit down and spend 10 minutes talking with each potential partner . A simple way to discover who you might click with.

11:30 – 13:00 SLT | DANCING ON THE ROOF
After — and alongside — the dating activities, enjoy some music with Aphra playing a selection of nice tunes in the background.

❤️ Meet • Talk • Flirt • Connect

Registration is open now until 10 AM Sunday.

Good conversations can lead to something special… ✨

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🌅 SUNSET PARTNERS – SPEED-DATING-ERÖFFNUNGSEVENT

Bist du auf der Suche nach jemand Besonderem? Komm zur Partnervermittlung „Sunset Partners“ und erlebe ein entspanntes, spielerisches Speed-Dating-Event, bei dem man sich kennenlernen, unterhalten, flirten und Kontakte knüpfen kann.

Kein Druck, kein formeller Dresscode – komm einfach so, wie du bist (aber bitte bekleidet). 😉

💕 Das Event

11:00 – 11:15 Uhr SLT | BEGRÜSSUNG
Eine kurze Einführung in die Partnervermittlung „Sunset Partners“ und die Funktionsweise der Dating-Boards.

11:15 – 11:30 Uhr SLT | DATING-WAND
Erzähl uns ein wenig über dich und darüber, welche Art von Partner du suchst.

11:30 – 12:30 Uhr SLT | SPEED-DATING
Nimm Platz und unterhalte dich jeweils 10 Minuten lang mit potenziellen Partnern. Eine einfache Möglichkeit herauszufinden, mit wem die Chemie stimmt.

11:30 – 13:00 Uhr SLT | TANZEN AUF DEM DACH
Genieße nach (und während) der Dating-Aktivitäten die Musik: Aphra spielt eine Auswahl schöner Songs im Hintergrund.

❤️ Kennenlernen • Unterhalten • Flirten • Kontakte knüpfen

Die Anmeldung ist ab sofort bis Sonntag um 10:00 Uhr geöffnet.

Gute Gespräche können zu etwas Besonderem führen… ✨

Not all Sandboxes were created equally..

* Separate male and female dressing rooms with tinted windows

* Building supplies

* Building grids

* flying


The sandbox made with YOU in mind!