PBR is not all about metals and reflections. It literally improves all surfaces if you add the textures to your builds and use a PBR viewer to see them. Photos also show the difference between the old default midday sky and the new one in the PBR viewer.

The Majestic Ballroom exterior has been completely remodeled and the venue is now complete at Lunaria Emporium with full pbr textures (the build also has similar older fallback textures for those using non-pbr viewers).

Includes lighting controls and these extras: a full Art Deco Bar, ballroom dining set, a palm tree, a ground spotlight, a bird chandelier, two Art Deco framed prints, two Art Deco tall Lamps, three instruments and a microphone (all unscripted), and a lotus flower candle. These are for you to use any way you like and can be copied and modified, but nothing may be given away except the art prints and the instruments which come full perm.

If you're just exploring, be sure to pick up the art prints and instruments for free inside the ballroom. You can find the ballroom by clicking the Art Deco teleport sign inside the lobby on the left as you walk in. Important note: if you land on the top of the cinema complex when you first arrive at the Emporium, take a single step forward to activate the teleporter to the lobby.

See full pics here: https://www.facebook.com/LunariaEmporium/

Limo: hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Lunaria%20Emporium%20-...

Life in OpenSIM and it`s not only building, building and building...
Sometimes it`s nice just to relax and sip a coffee with friends (pic taken at Harpa Concert Hall).
P.S I`m lying,.. I know me .. ..will be building something in a half hour lolol

Toys galore for kids and those young at heart. Everything that was at the toy store in Ardent Lake and Princess regions, and more!

Many many other items available at other stores in the region with more being added regularly.

The SHE SAID DESTROY Art Gallery has it's Grand Opening May 3rd, Today!
The opening show; "The Ninth Circle", draws on Dante's epic poem "The Inferno", and draws together elements of many artist's visions of Hell, including Bosch, Giger, Blake, Bacon and Rops. Note - Adult themes. Discretion advised.
N.B.
This is a 2-- center event. For operational reasons the opening will take place at QueendomGallery and not at "She Said Destroy (2)"

Main Gallery:
QueendomGallery
hop://login.osgrid.org/QueendomGallery/457/283/32

Backup Gallery:
She Said Destroy (2)
hop://login.osgrid.org/Nakita%27s%20Place/208/80/27

**Dralo T-shirt and Wait Shirt FATPACK for LegacyM OUT NOW!**
A combo of rolled-up sleeve t-shirt and waist shirt:
- T-shirt comes with HUD in 30 textures
- You can add 19 prints to the shirt or leave it blank
- Waist Shirty comes in 12 plaid options
- Material layers included
- Body-auto-alpha for Sciattisi Grid's Legacy male body

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/157/134/26

Following on from Re-textured Athena and Re-textured Petite - We've now added Re-textured Legacy Perky clothing. Enjoy!

Many many other items available at other stores in the region with more being added regularly.

Hi TSD Shoppers! Just to let you know that I have added new packs to Fatpacks and also 2025, just look for the gold stars, hopefully this makes it easier for you to find! These will be removed in a week so that you have a chance to grab them without having to search long and hard for them ♥

***Drift Tee Fatpack for LegacyM OUT NOW!***
Happy Sunday! Out now this top, which goes great with thew Linen set pants:
- HUD with 10 textures
- Includes material layers
- Body auto-alpha for Sciattisi Grid's Legacy M body
- Comes with a rigged necklace add-on

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/157/134/26

In the face of so much ugliness, the only thing to do is answer with power and beauty. In the face of so much darkness, embrace the sun.

My newest song. If I don't do an other, I'll be happy with this. Enjoy.
https://www.bandlab.com/track/aa37a701-a315-f011-aaa7-0022...

So TDS will be changing the way that you grab items at the store! I have decided to make all items full perms, only because I see my items at other stores with no credit to myself at all. So if I make everything full perm then everyone can pass out the items to their friends. I will also be boxing items based on dates that are in my inventory. I have thousands of items not out because I am just myself at TDS. So the store will still be open whilst I work in the sky to get items boxed for you to grab once it is ready. I was going to put items in boxes based on what the item is, however, I would be trawling through my invy at a snail's pace. So if you have items already then you can just unpack and delete. Watch this space and thank you for your support as always ♥

🌟 Venez découvrir une nouvelle coiffure chez Lydora ! ✨ Changez de style et laissez-vous séduire . Rendez-vous vite en boutique ! 💇‍♀️💖
🌟 Come and discover new hairstyle at Luxuria! ✨ Change your style and let yourself be charmed. Visit us in-store now! 💇‍♀️💖
hop://agartha.ovh:8002/Lydora/128/128/23

Littlefield Grid is celebrating it's 12th Anniversary this year!!
We will have the Anniversary region up for the full month of April so everyone can visit the displays from the residents and our Hypergrid friends!

Thank you to all of our residents and friends for 12 years!!

Hello everyone, the BloodMoon grid website is getting a makeover, the development of the vampire and Lycan role play is also progressing. We recently concluded a partnership with Podex and changed our currency due to a lack of communication from Gloebits, our messages remained desperately unanswered for several months. The team at Podex is very professional and it is easy to communicate with them, we recommend them for their professionalism. See you soon: https://bloodmoonpack.com/grid/

**Ash Hoodie for LegacyM OUT NOW!**
Don't you hate wearing a hoodie and not being able to wear any hair? This new hoodie for Legacy M has plenty of space!
It comes in a full fatpack with HUD:

- 10 different textures to choose from
- 3 different animated logos on the chest - and the option to hide it too via HUD.
- Auto-alpha on wear/attach and detach for Sciattisi Grid's Legacy M body version.

As the previous one, you can find it in one of the little stores to the side at the Mall's ground level.

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/171/134/25

Jupiter Rowland was wondering in an earlier post why The Virtual Museum had not heard about Opensim. This chart from 2022 from Metaversed Consulting is a reminder of just where Opensimulator places in the metaverse, and is very likely why the Virtual Museum hasn't heard of us. We're one of the tiny dots under Older Users. By 2024, Opensimulator didn't even register on this chart at all. Personally, I love Opensim and plan to be here as long as it's running, whether or not we are recognized by the rest of the virtual world.

This chart comes from here: https://www.metaversed.consulting/blog/120-and-counting

I'm currently trying to establish some (more) contact between the OpenSim scene and the Virtual Worlds Museum.

https://www.virtualworlds.museum/

They don't really seem to know much about OpenSim, probably also it's so hard for outsiders to find the right people to talk to. Hence, the only grid they're even as much as aware of is the Wolf Territories Grid.

🌟 Venez découvrir 3 nouvelles coiffures exclusives chez Lydora ! ✨ Changez de style et laissez-vous séduire . Rendez-vous vite en boutique ! 💇‍♀️💖
🌟 Come and discover 3 exclusive new hairstyles at Lydora! ✨ Change your style and let yourself be charmed. Visit us in-store now! 💇‍♀️💖
agartha.ovh:8002:Lydora

Dear Everyone... After endless battles with windows 10. The bizarre server crashes, the triplicate items in my oars... I'm going to linux. Let me explain why, today my server decided the usb ports were no longer needed. So I have no mouse, no keyboard, they don't even work in bios. This system is on a very powerful UPS so I know lightning didn't get it, but on the other hand it was 5 years old. So in messing with it while the keyboard still worked, I tried to fix the mouse but wound up crashing my grid, and then the mother board died leaving me once again friendless with no grid. :( So I did what every opensimian does and ordered a new server. But I think this time I'm going with debian. Hopefully I can find someone that uses debian with opensim to give me some insider information to get it up and running when the new server comes in. But just so you know, I'm down due to mysterious server problems. I have created an account on wolf territories called CyberGlo CyberStar, you can friend me there and I will probably never lose your friendship. Sorry for the troubles. CC

The HG Safari tour season ended last Wednesday, we will be back in April with more madness. In the meantime, please enjoy the following posts
Game of Thrones roleplay done beautifully on WTG
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/go-westeros.html
visit the 130+ booths at the HIE Expo - get your freebies and info about many grids you may not have heard of before!
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/expo-sure.html
Opensim World's Fair - fun at the Load Test
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/fair-test.html
A guided tour around Tosha Tyran's extraordinary build Timbuktu
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/toshas-timbuktu.html
Lavia Lavine takes us back to Oklahoma in the 1850's to learn more about roleplay
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/going-stag.html
This year's excellent Cornflakes Week party on Neverworld - lest we forget
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/cornflakes-2025-nw-s...
The amazing Dismayland - one of Opensim's true gems!
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/dismayland-undismaye...
Learning how Virtual Learning Village helps people to strengthen their brain power
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/safari-boosts-its-br...
The Safari season ends with a party on Wyldwood Bayou
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-bayou-bye-bye.html
Another big success for AMV's annual International Diversity concert
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/getting-internationa...
and finally, highlighting Loru Destiny's Film Festival https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/destiny-at-movies.ht...

Dear Friends of the Virtual Carnival,

What an incredible time we have had! Once again, we were able to celebrate an unbelievably beautiful carnival in the Pangea Grid together. It was a festival of colors, imagination, and pure joy. One of the undisputed highlights was our Rose Monday parade, where creativity and community spirit came together in a truly impressive way.

A huge thank you goes to all those who, with tireless dedication and boundless imagination, built the incredibly creative floats, airplanes, UFOs, and many other wonderful constructions. You transformed the Pangea Grid into a true carnival spectacle and brought joy to countless people!

We are especially delighted that so many external grids joined us again this year, making our carnival an even more diverse and exhilarating event. A heartfelt thank you to Soul Grid, Monroose Grid, Nabila Grid, CCI Bikerworld, SoA.Bad and SINAS.S, HG Safari, and Loru.Destiny from the Grid artdestiny! Your participation has once again enriched and brought life to this Rose Monday parade.

I would also like to extend a special thank you to Abraxas and Lilie Oller, Bink Draconia, Finja and Jason Flux, Tutz, Lampithaler and Reyno Parx, Lilly Topas, Kitty Sarrasine,, and all the many dedicated participants who made this carnival what it was: an unforgettable experience!

As we cherish the memories of this wonderful carnival in our hearts, we already look ahead: Next year, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Cologne Virtual Carnival! A very special jubilee that we will mark with even more brilliance, even more magic, and even more enthusiasm. The anticipation is already immense!

With a short video insight, I bid you farewell and say from the bottom of my heart Thank you! For your enthusiasm, your creativity, and your love for the carnival. Without you, this festival would not be the same!

Three cheers from the heart: Kölle Alaaf! Pangea Alaaf! Virtual Carnival Alaaf!

With carnival greetings and full of excitement for next year,

Yours, Marlon Wayne

https://youtu.be/-vs4npr7qK0?si=DwrpQReSMX8GJvKR

Hi everyone our Mother grid will be up in soon time, Better & Stronger! but until then to all my friends and loved ones ... You can Find me here at Sunlight (Gaia welcome area) as am working as usual on other RL stuff. Love to see you there to give ya that special greeting welcome 😉 Lets enjoy the Sunlight together. Those chairs are cozzzzzzzy after all.

Am also at Maze cause you know how I like to Dance with my Sis Pink as always! you'll find her there .. the lovely person that she is 🌷 .. Take your pick. wtih Paela or Prince I always feel at Home back at OSgrid. Miss my mother Grid 😢

👉 Sunlight 🌞 hop://hg.sunlight-grid.com:80/Gaia/
💌 Sunlight Discord: https://discord.gg/7mAuc3qd
🌐 web: https://sunlight-region.com/

👉 Maze 🌷 hop://maze.bz:7002/Maze%20Grid%20Home/142/206/22
💌 Maze Discord: https://discord.gg/TyNBPz5H
🌐 web: https://mazeofthemind.com/

Hugs and blessings .. MG ❤

Jojo Apple aka Harmony Beningborough's exhibit showcasing her Mermaid's Cove on the OS Grid is must see!

If you love Mermaids, you won't want to miss her exhibit! Parcel 54
hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/OpenSim Worlds Fair/132/892/22

Check out https://www.opensimworldsfair.com/exhibitors for more information on the incredible exhibitors @ The OpenSim Worlds Fair on Wolf Territories

As many people know... I am the cat's meow. I have 2 cats, dash & applejack, which I adopted from a shelter. They were found in the sewer drain. Someone tried to drown them? I don't know. But any way. They are very happy now living in my house. But aside from this and their many funny antics, I am announcing my return to the virtual worlds. Since the recovery was awesome, (and why wouldn't it be? I did it.), I now have most of my builds replaced. It is with great joy and fierce resolution that I have decided to tear down the wizardry shop again. ( I tore it down once and let Safine sell the magic huds for me.) But it came back, when I recovered the oars. This time I will sink the land under water and decimate the trees and shrubbery, plus I will obliterate the vines and flowers. This should leave nothing, but water. I do plan to leave the wizards house, since it is so full of magic, the wizards shack, and of course the school of magical education and generalized debauchery. I am deeply saddened to hear of the heartfelt tragedy osgrid is going through losing all their inventory... I know many of you will miss the early prim built furniture if only for it's historical sentiment. Many lands people owned but died after renting a server for 50 years will be disappeared from osgrid. Many people who died will be removed from the databases. Are you one of them? Boo! So anyways, as you may have surmised from my initial scribery on the wall of html everything is copacetic. Karma says what goes around comes around, a good reason to strap a 24 pack of charmin around your hiney. Cheers!