Luna Lunaria^✦ @lunalunaria

Save the date!

The Lotus Club at Luxor will be having its grand opening and first music event on Saturday, October 14th at 2 pm grid time. Austin Moores and the Angels will be performing for the event. Would love to see you all there!

Look for the club sign at the main landing for Luxor then click the sign to teleport to the club.

I would recommend visiting the region prior to the event to allow your viewer to cache everything ahead of time, and if you would like a tour of the region, come along with HG Safari on Wednesday September 27th. Information on HG Safari can be found here: https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/p/how-to-join-safari.html

HG Address for Luxor is: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

One of my parcels at OSFest is ready to go. This one promotes my Luxor region on Wolf Territories grid. The small structure in the center is a memorial to Veri McMaster and there's a song playing there titled 'Moments' by Sid Acharya - it is not a stream so just make sure your sounds are turned up and after about a minute you will hear it playing.

Here's the hop: hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/Unobtanium/777/321/25. HG Address is grid.opensimfest.com:8022:unobtanium. Just look for the Egyptian structures.

Doing a little infrastructure work on the sponsor region at OpensimFest, including adding a new EEP

For all OSFest exhibitors, merchants, and sponsors, the grid is now open for adding your builds and displays. You can find full and complete information regarding all aspects of accessing the grid and setting up here: https://www.opensimfest.com/post/the-osfest-grid-is-open

There are still spots open in all categories so make sure to register for yours today! If you wish to participate as an exhibitor, performer, or merchant, please go here to register for a parcel: https://www.opensimfest.com then click Register on the top menu line. Once you have registered go to the web page mentioned at the top for information on how to proceed.

OSFest sponsors are those who support the grid monetarily to help offset the server and technical costs of running a short-term grid. Their support ensures the grid is free to everyone. If you would like to become a sponsor, go here to register where you can choose a support level you're comfortable with: https://www.opensimfest.com/sponsors

For all OSFest exhibitors, merchants, and sponsors, the grid is now open for adding your builds and displays. You can find full and complete information regarding all aspects of accessing the grid and setting up here: https://www.opensimfest.com/post/the-osfest-grid-is-open

There are still spots open in all categories so make sure to register for yours today! If you wish to participate as an exhibitor, performer, or merchant, please go here to register for a parcel: https://www.opensimfest.com then click Register on the top menu line. Once you have registered go to the web page mentioned at the top for information on how to proceed.

OSFest sponsors are those who support the grid monetarily to help offset the server and technical costs of running a short-term grid. Their support ensures the grid is free to everyone. If you would like to become a sponsor, go here to register where you can choose a support level you're comfortable with: https://www.opensimfest.com/sponsors

It's that time of the year again when OSFest is nearly ready to open the doors of a new grid to exhibitors, merchants, and sponsors to start placing their creations before the official opening on September 15th. I know I've been working on my new exhibit since mid July.

OSFest (OpensimFest) is a big event with tons of exhibits from multiple grids, including individual exhibitors, merchants, and artists, as well as educators and grid owners. Each year they create a grid just for the festival with multiple regions and tons of performers that lasts 2 weeks. At the end they have a large celebration just before the entire grid is taken down until the next year.

If you wish to participate as an exhibitor, performer, or merchant, please go here to register for a parcel: https://www.opensimfest.com then click Register on the top menu line. Once the grid opens you'll receive a parcel number by email.

OSFest sponsors are those who support the grid monetarily to help offset the server and technical costs of running a short-term grid. Their support ensures the grid is free to everyone. If you would like to become a sponsor, go here to register where you can choose a support level you're comfortable with: https://www.opensimfest.com/sponsors

For those of you who would like to attend, you can find the calendar of events here: https://www.opensimfest.com/calendar

To hear all the news before everyone else, join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/K7rWsJn6e9

My passion is building large architectural structures and regions for commercial, spiritual, and entertainment purposes, and doing them with highly detailed surfaces and textures. While I am not primarily in the business of making smaller items, in the process of making a venue I inevitably end up adding furniture, lighting, and accessories that match the style. A lot of these I make myself, but some, like this beautiful Art Deco Lamp, which will be part of my new OSFest build, I source from 3D modeling sites.

The first photo is of an original lamp from the 1920s, currently available on Etsy for about $300 usd. The second is the 3D model by Katmit developed for 3D printers. I purchased it on Renderhub for $12 and it came with an Extended Use license. After a lot of work with faces and UV maps I was finally able to get Firestorm to let my version upload, which is the last pic. I was meh about the plain globe, so I replaced that with something more interesting and added my light script. This little project took a lot more time and effort than I planned for, but I'll spend many happy moments sitting at the bar just looking at this lovely piece of art that began life a hundred years ago.

You will be able to see my full Art Deco venue at OSFest this September on the sponsor region.

Luxor is my home and a place of meditation and mystery for spiritual pilgrims. The region rewards those who are patient, still, and listening, for there are quiet songs that will play at various locations if you stand and wait. Shared environment and higher graphics will complete your experience in this place of Peace. I am here often so please say Hi if you see me

Nothing is currently for sale here but eventually I'll open a little shop of antiquities.

New on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market/product/70551058/Egyptian-Ce...

The Celestial Pavillion is a large, open venue done in a reimagined ancient dynastic style, perfect for ancient Egyptian, Greek, or Roman roleplay, live performers, DJs, and any other large celebration or gathering, such as grid parties, birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries.

The Pavillion was inspired by the Temple of Isis at Philae on Agilkia Island located on the Nile River, but is not an exact replica. More than two thirds of Philae's surviving structures were built in the Ptolemaic era, during which the island became a prominent site of pilgrimage not only for Egyptians and Nubians but for pilgrims from as far as Anatolia, Crete, and the Greek mainland. During the Roman era, Philae was the site of the last known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, written in AD 394, and the last known Demotic inscription, written in 452.

The Pavillion comes complete with multiple mesh lotus columns, both taller and shorter fire braziers, mesh date palms in exquisite polished gold planters, as well as various mesh statues. The build is 157 prims with all plants and braziers placed. The base footprint is 80 x 35 meters. A pair of these temples can be seen at my home region of Luxor flanking both sides of the Main Harbor.

HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

Now on the Kitely Market: https://www.kitely.com/market/product/70275470/Egyptian-So...

These are the mysterious and beautiful Southern Oracle Sphinxes from the 1984 movie The Neverending Story, perfect for fantasy, Egyptian, roleplay, or ancient regions. Two pairs are included: a left and a right sphinx in both Blue and Sandstone. Each statue is made up of the mesh model plus 3 light prims. The statues rez pretty large but can be modified to any height.

The build uses materials textures which give the surface additional detail and reflection, but these can only be seen with advanced lighting model activated in your preferences. Looks best under night settings.

Modify, Copy, and Export

All photos are of the actual model in world, and all details are mesh, not painted. Both sets can be viewed at Luxor on Wolf Territories Grid. HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

License Info: This modified 3D model, originally created for 3D printers by J_Hatfield, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license. The original stl files can be viewed and downloaded for free here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5166674

The Egyptian Meditation Temple has just been released on the Kitely Market and is available for purchase here:
https://www.kitely.com/market/product/70270957/Egyptian-Me...

The Meditation Temple began life as a sponsor display on the main entertainment region of last year's OpensimFest and garnered a lot of positive feedback. After OsFest, I moved it to its permanent home on Luxor on Wolf Territories grid where visitors can walk through it. Keep in mind that nothing on Luxor is set for sale but that much of it will be released exclusively on the Kitely Market in the days and weeks to come.

HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

Sharing an upcoming event on one of the grids I'm on :-)

This Saturday, June 17th, a unique one-time-only GT number will be performed at Fetish Fire! 3pm grid time!

This Saturday's set at Fetish Fire is going to be truly spectacular. It's a theme night of "Celebrations," as we'll celebrate some very special birthdays this month. On top of that, the Golden Touch is doing a very special number called Golden Fire. It's a one-time-only showing of a number more intimate than ever by GT. So come over at 3pm grid time to Fetish Fire at the Adult Hub. Listen to good music, be inspired by our dances, and join in the happiness of Celebrations! Limos will be ready.
(This event **is** open to Hypergrid visitors!)

HG Address: utopiaskyegrid.com:8002:Utopia Skye Adult Hub

Save the date, Opensim Fest 2023 is coming! A tentative date has been set for September 15th - 30th. I'll post more here when the web site is up and running again. In the meantime, you can find all the latest news and information in their Discord server here: https://discord.gg/2dcCK2cv

There are 4 temples currently on Luxor, three of which are devoted to the great spiritual cycle represented by the goddess Isis, her husband Osiris, and their son Horus. The Great Pyramid is dedicated to Isis of course, the temple of Osiris is directly behind it, and this new build to the right of the pyramid is the temple of Horus. I'm the little spec at the top of the upper stairs. I haven't built the main temple on the new site yet, only the surrounding colonnades. Textures to come soon also.

If you visit Luxor and see me there, I'm usually working on the region and not camping out, so say hi. I love meeting new people and giving impromptu tours :-)

HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

Lunaria Emporium is my flagship store located on Wolf Territories Grid, where you'll find unique products created solely by me that can be purchased with Gloebits, or with other pay options through links to the Kitely Market.

The central store is large, with multiple rooms that include themes such as Christmas, Gothic, Vampire, Arcane Magic, Castles, Steampunk Airships, Medieval, Japanese/Asian, Greek and Roman, Statuary, Decor, freebies, large architecture in multiple styles, and large Venues.

Surrounding the central rotunda are large viewing parcels at ground level where you can walk through all of the structures available for purchase and fully experience each build. They can be accessed by teleport boards, bridges, flying, or taking a boat ride.

There is a freebies section inside the central store with several items free to anyone. Also available for free are the Ruth 2.0 and Roth 2.0 mesh avatars.

Important Note: Use Shared Environment and higher graphics to see the region properly. As you explore the various parcels, the sky settings will change to fit the theme.

Many of my products can also be found on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

You can find my work here:

Wolf Territories Grid:
grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

I love having water in and around all my regions so that visitors can hop in a boat and take a tour. On Wolf Territories Grid, all 1300+ 4x4 varregions are connected by water so you can jump in one of my little boats (not my creation) and explore the entire grid if you like. So come to shop then find one of the boats at the docks and have fun touring. The boats hold 4 people so bring friends :-)

You can find my store on Wolf Territories Grid here: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Once I'm finished upgrading Luxor, it might be time to revisit this project and turn it into something really fabulous. I have some interesting ideas, including a possible Atlantis region. We'll see. This began life a few years ago as a scene concept for a chapter in a book I'm writing, then I set it aside until I could decide what I wanted to do with it.

You can see the current version at my main store on Wolf Territories Grid. Click the Roman sign in the lobby to go there.

Here's the address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

I had a visitor a couple of days ago at Luxor while I was working on some new stuff there. They messaged me to let me know how well my textures 'fit' together. I thanked them then I asked them if they had shared environment on with a higher graphics setting. They said no. I said 'try it'. next thing I hear is WHOA...

Lol. This is about as close to pbr as I can get.

You can see Luxor here: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

You can find my work at these locations:

Wolf Territories Grid:
Gloebit Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store
Podex Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Podex

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

My ongoing Egyptian passion project called Luxor, located on Wolf Territories Grid. Currently working on the interior of the main pyramid (finally), which will have a new lavish club venue at the top.

grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

You can find my work at these locations:

Wolf Territories Grid:
Gloebit Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store
Podex Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Podex

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

I like to drop a post every now and then on another virtual universe I'm involved in developing, with a working name of Starlite Galaxies. It's a user-content generated world like SL and Opensim, but not based on their code. A complete new game engine has been written from the ground up in proprietary codebase using C++, utilizing the Vulkan API instead of OpenGL. The universe will not be compatible with opensim code, but we are discussing a bridge option down the road to allow opensim users to visit. The game is currently approaching alpha testing for which all slots are filled.

The top shot is a helmet readily available on 3D model sites that we use to test our handling of PBR materials and shaders. This one is reflecting the environment we dropped it in and running at 4910 fps on full blast graphics using a GeForce 3060 card (I believe this is the same helmet visible in the recent SL tutorial on their version of PBR)

The bottom image is an asteroid field with 50,000 physical objects all orbiting a central mass independently of one another. We wanted to find a breaking point, but only got the fps down to 720 fps.

We also are testing on a variety of lower end machines to find baselines for the graphics and physics. But if you want to go full-bore gaming using VR, controllers, joysticks, flight-sim equipment, etc., then all of that capability is already there and working. Probably would only want to use VR with your feet on the ground. We found flying ships in VR was...unsettling.

See my Facebook page for larger images: https://www.facebook.com/LunariaEmporium

I currently have regions on four grids, three of which are part of the NGC (Next Generation Core) group of grids (8-10 grids at last count), who together are developing their own improved fork of Opensim. All three have great owners who can be easily reached through dedicated grid channels on Discord, and all have been tremendously supportive of my work.

Of those three, Wolf Territories Grid has become my main location (the other two are Mobius Grid and Utopia Skye Grid). All NGC grid owners are deeply committed to making their grid the best possible for their users. That is especially true for Lone Wolf at Wolf Territories when it comes to speed, security, stability, and the organization of servers and architecture.

For example, look at the console pictured here. By logging in to the website, multiple options are available to me: Restart the region, Update the map of the region, Download the most current OAR, Backup the region to create a new OAR that I can then download, or flatten the region terrain. By clicking Edit, additional options open up: I can change the region name, change the region currency from Gloebits to the local currency, or change the region physics from Ubode to Bulletsim.

And all those things we hope will work on a grid do here: Group notifications, Offline messages sent to email, a working Destination Guide, region crossings, and local currency transaction history, among others. I for one am deeply appreciative.

I have a small selection of Japanese inspired structures and accessories at Lunaria Emporium, such as tea houses, garden pavilions, torii gates, bridges, art, sculptures, lighting, and a lovely mesh Sakura Cherry Tree, with or without Kodama spirits. Everything is available either inside the store or on an outside display area.

You can find my work at these locations:

Wolf Territories Grid:
Gloebit Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store
Podex Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Podex

Kitely Store: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

Castles are my first love in virtual worlds and the very first object I attempted to build back in 2009 in Second Life. I've honed my craft since then and I have a small collection of them available at my stores, from the massive Caerwyn Fortress to the ethereal Castle Ceridwen.

You can find my castles at these locations:

Main Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Kitely Store: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

All of my castles are available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705&q=castle