Hi everyone.
An update on OpenSim-Aura, current version v1.0.6.
https://github.com/amandaleeang/OpenSim-Aura
This release adds server-side bake (Firestorm SSA). It is live now on my test sim.
Server-side bake includes:
• 2K textures
• Cached bakes and XBakes for standalone and Robust grids
• XBakes for HG visitors

It is live now in my sims.

Other highlights, implemented so far:
• Attachment scripts start on HG teleport
• Display names set from the viewer
• Display names carried on HG (OpenSim-Aura only)
• Concurrent asset transfer for copy, give folder, open object, and buy object
• Concurrent asset gather on HG teleport
• Online status kept through HG teleports
• Standalone groups in SQLite
• Standalone offline messages in SQLite
• FSAssests with SQLite

Binaries are on the Releases page.

Feedback welcome.

X Amanda

Today at 12 pm grid time: Burlesque at Oasis! Come wearing your best burlesque outfits, or come as you are and enjoy the show and the music! For this occasion we built a special skybox, styled as an old Amsterdam nightclub. Come have fun with us!

Join us at the Piazza at 3 pm grid time, for a couple of hours of fun and music while Rockin' Robert spins the tunes for us via his live radio station Wax Radio.
The Piazza, where good friends and great music always come together.
bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Save the date and bring a date, because we’re getting ready to throw a party you won’t forget! 🎶🌀

October 18, the Tenth Dimension Grid joins with OSFest2026 to bring you an unforgettable night at Electric Vortex!

🎧 DJ Drew Blood will be spinning some of the best trance, Deep House, and electronic music out there, with Star Ravenhurst as your hostess.
He has some surprises you won't want to miss!

5 PM Grid Time

Come dance, connect, and enjoy the Vortex! 💜⚡
Mark your calendars!

CAS & EVAN LIVE AT THE GARDEN AMV GRID 9-11
10 AM EVAN WILLIAMS 11AM CAS VOICE VIBES
GRID HOPPERS WELCOME. YOUR LIMO HERE..
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Casaenias%20Estate/133/1...
DON'T MISS THE AMAZING PERFORMANCES OF BOTH SINGERS! STARTING WITH EVAN WILLIAMS AT 10AM GRID TIME. FOLLOWED BY CASAENIA BAXTON 11AM GRID TIME..WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU COME ROCK WITH US! SEE YOU THERE!

Coming to you at 6am - 8am PDT/SLT/OST/Grid Time (2pm to 4pm UK), A Mix of Music in all different languages from around the world,bringing you 2 hours of fun, laughter and banter, kicking off your Friday with a bang!, come one, come all, all are welcome to come and join in party and have fun! hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

Coming to you at 6am - 8am PDT/SLT/OST/Grid Time (2pm to 4pm UK), A Mix of Music in all different languages from around the world,bringing you 2 hours of fun, laughter and banter, kicking off your Friday with a bang!, come one, come all, all are welcome to come and join in party and have fun!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/35...

☕ Cozy Up & Grab Your Gifts!
Group Gifts: A cozy new surprise is ready on board for all of our amazing group members.
Dinkies Special: We didn't forget the little ones! A perfectly sized gift is waiting just for the Dinkies.
Where to Find Them: Teleport right in—everything is set up and ready for you directly at the landing area.
Also, at Little Things, Teleport to There is on the ground, is a nice gift for winter cold nights coming up.

🦋 Butterflies Always Near 🦋

Butterflies have a very special meaning to me.

At 96 years old, my mother was still creating. One of the last things she made for her daughters was a sequined butterfly. She carefully placed every single sequin by hand. She passed away only a few months later, on September 18, 2024.

Those butterflies became something I treasure, and now they have inspired this little creation.

Butterflies Always Near is a butterfly choker created in remembrance of my mother and also in memory of Dolly Parton, whose love of butterflies made this tribute feel especially fitting.

Each choker comes nestled inside a lavender butterfly keepsake box and will be given as a gift at Monentes Jewelry.

A butterfly may only stay for a moment, but somehow its beauty stays with us.

For those we love, and those we remember — butterflies are always near. 🦋

UPDATE:
🎉 NEVERWORLD GRID IS BACK ONLINE! 🎉

The migration is complete — the Main Grid is fully operational, and all data has been successfully restored. ✅

🛡️ Stable & Secure — infrastructure is fully operational and running smoothly
💾 Data Restored — all systems and user data recovered intact
⚡ Full Services Online — everything's back, log in and pick up right where you left off

Thank you so much for your patience while we worked through this — NWG is officially running stronger than ever. 💙

See you in-world! 🏰

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🛠️ NEVERWORLD GRID — SERVER MIGRATION IN PROGRESS 🛠️

Hey everyone! NeverWorld Grid ran into a hardware issue on our end that required us to move to a new server. We're actively working through the migration — mounting the new system, restoring data, and getting everything relinked and rebooted.

The Main Grid is temporarily offline while this happens. Full data restoration takes time to do right, so we appreciate your patience — we want everything to come back exactly as it should, not rushed.

In the meantime, come build with us on the Dev Grid! 🏗️
Create an account and hop on right now:
🔗 https://dev.neverworldgrid.com/

Sandbox away, build, test, export — a good way to stay productive while we finish up.

We'll post the moment the Main Grid is back online. Thanks for hanging in there with us — NWG's coming back stronger! 💙

Some of the most interesting developments in DreamGrid don't arrive with a lot of noise.

Fred Beckhusen just quietly keeps building.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamGrid/comments/1wcmv4y/dreamg...

Modding the LouTan movement reactive hex dancefloor to no longer only react to stepping on it physically, but also when on solo and couple dance balls , huds, chimeras etc. Why is this challenging? sounds ez? Well, opensim and sl treat you as a ghost more or less when you are being animated. You are no longer a physical thing. While my enhancements are far from flawless, i feel it adds an extra level of realism and interest to an already super cool item. Found the original from Druskus and ZoneNations, i do believe. so all credit to him and them. I'm just trying to make it even cooler!

🌹 Invitation 🌹
Event: Crazy & Carmen’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
Message: You are warmly invited to share our special 5th anniversary celebration with us.
📅 Date: Friday 11th September 2026
🕚 Time: 11:00 OS Time / 8:00 PM EU Time
👗 Dress Code: Smart Casual
✨ Join us in marking five beautiful years together — a night of love, laughter, and cherished memories awaits. ✨
With love,
Crazy & Carmen

🌹 Einladung 🌹
Anlass: Feier zum 5. Jahrestag von Crazy & Carmen
Botschaft: Wir laden euch herzlich ein, gemeinsam mit uns unseren besonderen 5.Jahrestag zu feiern.
📅 Datum: Freitag 11. September 2026
🕚 Uhrzeit: 11:00 Uhr OS-Zeit am / 20:00 Uhr EU-Zeit
👗 Dresscode: Smart Casual
✨ Feiert mit uns fünf wunderbare gemeinsame Jahre – ein Abend voller Liebe, Lachen und schöner Erinnerungen erwartet euch. ✨
Alles Liebe,
Crazy & Carmen

SVPortal now has a pannable world map.

Estate owners/managers can add information about their region (including images if TinyMCE is installed in SVPortal) and this information along with basic details such as name, maturity, estate, position and a "Copy HOP" button is displayed when the region is clicked in the world map.

SVPortal can be downloaded (always free) from https://www.glenysbieler.com/svportal/

WE ARE BACK — SUBTERRANEA
You thought we were gone?

We’ve been hiding UNDERGROUND, charging the speakers, feeding the demons and arguing over who gets the better tunes.

This time we're bringing DJ Chocolate & Adrian Moon together for a proper subterranean takeover — and this one is all about NU DISCO.
Today 09/10/2026
DJ CHOCOLATE — 11AM → 1PM
ADRIAN MOON — 1PM → 3PM

Expect funky basslines, disco grooves, shimmering synths, dirty little edits, deep house flavours and enough groove to make even the furniture start dancing.

Basically...
disco went underground, got darker, got sexier and found a bassline.

Come for the music.
hop://grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002/Mosaic/128/244/23
Stay because you’ve forgotten where the exit is.

NU DISCO • DEEP GROOVES • UNDERGROUND ENERGY
MUSIC • PEOPLE • UNDERGROUND • AGAIN

FLEETWOOD BEACH PLATES 1 - Say Good bye to terraforming

One request in advance: Please give me feedback on whether you find the plates useful and whether I should continue developing them. Your feedback helps me with my work. Thank you very much!

FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates: Flexible Terrain for OpenSim – Without Traditional Terraforming

With the FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates, landscapes in OpenSim can be designed much more flexibly than with standard sim terrain alone. Instead of laboriously raising, lowering, and repeatedly adjusting the fixed region terrain, you build your landscape from freely placeable mesh terrain plates.

This makes it possible to create beaches, dunes, forest areas, transition zones, paths, slopes, and entire landscape sections exactly where you need them.

The major advantage: the plates remain objects. You can move, rotate, scale, replace, or completely rearrange them at any time without permanently altering the actual sim terrain.

Seamless Textures Across Multiple Plates

The system automatically aligns textures to the region coordinates. This means the texture does not restart on every individual plate, but continues across neighboring plates.

The size, position, and rotation of each terrain plate are automatically taken into account. If a plate is moved, rotated, or scaled, the texture alignment adjusts accordingly.

The result is a continuous landscape in which the individual terrain plates are much less noticeable as separate objects.

Automatic Tiling

The texture is automatically adjusted to the size of the plate.

One texture tile corresponds to a fixed terrain size within the system. Larger plates automatically receive more repeats, while smaller plates receive fewer.

This means the user does not have to manually adjust texture repeats, offsets, and rotation for every single terrain plate.

Central Texture Control

Clicking on a terrain plate opens the integrated texture menu.

The textures stored in the plate’s inventory are detected automatically and can be selected directly. No complicated naming convention is required.

You can also use your own textures without any problem. The only requirement is that they are seamless, tileable textures.

Simply place new textures into the terrain plate’s inventory. The system detects them automatically and displays them in the texture menu.

When a texture is changed, it is automatically applied to all related terrain plates within the same group.

For example, an entire beach area can be redesigned with a single texture change.

Brightness and Color Are Synchronized Too

Not only the texture itself can be changed together.

The surface color and brightness can also be synchronized within a group. This allows an entire landscape area to be made lighter, darker, warmer, or cooler without having to edit every plate individually.

The alpha value can also be synchronized.

This is especially useful when different terrain materials need to be visually matched to each other.

Terrain Groups

The terrain plates are already assigned to different terrain groups such as Beach, Forest, Dunes, or Rock.

Texture, brightness, and alpha are synchronized only within the corresponding group. A change made to the Beach Plates, for example, does not affect the Forest Plates.

This allows several different landscape areas on the same sim to be designed and adjusted independently.

Advantages Compared to Traditional Sim Terraforming

Traditional terraforming works well for the large basic shapes of a region, but it is considerably more limited when it comes to precise landscape forms.

The FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates offer much more freedom.

The plates can be freely moved, rotated, scaled, copied, deleted, or replaced at any time. This makes it easy to redesign a landscape later without having to rework the actual sim terrain.

Specially shaped mesh plates also make it possible to create terrain forms that are difficult or impossible to achieve with normal terraforming, such as:

gentle dunes,

beach slopes,

embankments,

hills,

depressions,

terrain steps,

shoreline areas,

or transitions into the water.

This is especially useful for beaches. A plate can, for example, begin to slope gently from its center and continue down to water level. This creates a controlled beach transition without having to lower large areas of the sim terrain.

Another advantage is the freedom of height. Mesh terrain does not have to be used only at ground level. Raised landscapes, terraces, sky landscapes, floating islands, or additional terrain levels can also be created.

The terrain plates function as modular landscape building blocks. Different shapes can be combined freely, for example flat plates, hills, dunes, depressions, beach slopes, transition pieces, or edge sections.

And if the landscape needs to be changed later, the entire terrain does not have to be rebuilt. The relevant plates can simply be moved, replaced, or removed.

FLEETWOOD Seamless Terrain Plates - Modular. Seamless. Freely placeable. Group-controlled.

For OpenSim landscapes that can be designed, expanded, and changed flexibly at any time.

You can find the plates in my main store.

CCI-Grid – Welcome, Train Station, Teleport to all locations in the CCI-Grid.
- CCI SoA Bikerworld – the longest race track in OS, 10 levels, 10 themed zones
- CCI RACING – Nürburgring with Nordschleife, 26 km race track
- Charming, hometown of the Sons of Anarchy
- CCI Lofoten with a large Viking museum
- CCI California sailing School

hg.cc-group.cc:8002:CCI Grid Welcome

Singer Joao Frazao Live from Portugal Today At the Amv Landing Point
Singer and song writer Joao playing for you his Music and Covers
Join him for a 1 hour Show
Everybody is Welcome
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

Bingo Bingo Bingo! at 8am - 10am SLT (4pm - 6pm UK)
Come and join us for a few Games of Bingo
And have a laughter and a banter
Experience a new Bingo system, made special for AMV!
everybody is welcome to come and play
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

Richi's Music Call
-the ultimate cult show-
On 09.10, 2026, , at 10SLT inworld, we'll be kicking off Richi's Music Call at the TimeBandit in the Moonrose Grid.
Let's enjoy a little musical vacation for our hearts and souls together.
Everyone is always welcome.
Providing sound: Richi Rizzoli
Stream: https://stream.laut.fm/radiorockt
Streaming URL: https://stream.laut.fm/radiorockt

TODAY’S FISHING EVENT!
Ready to see who can catch the BIGGEST FISH?
Come along, cast your line, have some fun, and see if you can land the big one!

Starting at 8:00am Grid Time
LinkUp Landing

hop://login.linkup-grid.com:8002/LinkUp%20Welcome/133/133/...
Everyone welcome - let’s go fishing!

🌙✨ BLOODMOON GRID – OUR NEW WEBSITE IS NOW ONLINE! ✨🌙

We are happy to announce that the brand new BloodMoon Grid website is now officially online!

🔗 https://bloodmoonpack.com/grid/

The old portal has been replaced by a completely redesigned website, created to be clearer, more modern, easier to use and much more pleasant on both desktop and mobile.

🌐 What can you already find on the new website?

🏠 A modern home page and a clearer navigation
📰 Grid news and announcements
🎉 Events and community activities
👥 BloodMoon team information
🗺️ Grid map and region information
💰 Currency and donation information
🏝️ Land & simulator information
🛒 Direct access to the BloodMoon Marketplace
👤 Avatar account management
❤️ Partnership management
🔎 Public resident profile search
🖼️ Web Profiles with Profile, Favorites and Real Life information
👥 Friends list for connected residents
💌 Offline IM management
🌍 Personal region list and access to ManagerSim
🛠️ Administration tools for the BloodMoon team

The new Web Profiles also allow visitors to search for BloodMoon residents and view the public part of their profile directly from the website.

🔐 Private information remains private: Friends, Offline IMs and personal region management are only available to the profile owner.

✨ And this is only the beginning!

Later, we also plan to add:

🌍 Page translation options, making the website easier to use for our international community
🌙 A dark theme, for those who prefer a darker visual style

BloodMoon continues to evolve step by step, while keeping the same goal: offering a welcoming, open and easy-to-use OpenSimulator grid for everyone.

Come and discover the new website! ❤️

🔗 https://bloodmoonpack.com/grid/

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🌙✨ BLOODMOON GRID – NOTRE NOUVEAU SITE EST EN LIGNE ! ✨🌙

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le tout nouveau site de BloodMoon Grid est maintenant officiellement en ligne !

🔗 https://bloodmoonpack.com/grid/

L’ancien portail a été remplacé par un site entièrement repensé, plus clair, plus moderne, plus simple à utiliser et beaucoup plus agréable aussi bien sur ordinateur que sur mobile.

🌐 Que peut-on déjà trouver sur le nouveau site ?

🏠 Une page d’accueil moderne et une navigation plus claire
📰 Les actualités et annonces de la grille
🎉 Les événements et activités de la communauté
👥 Les informations sur l’équipe BloodMoon
🗺️ La carte et les informations sur les régions
💰 Les informations concernant la monnaie et les dons
🏝️ Les informations sur les terrains et simulateurs
🛒 Un accès direct au Marketplace BloodMoon
👤 La gestion de son compte avatar
❤️ La gestion des partenariats
🔎 Une recherche publique des profils des résidents
🖼️ Des Web Profiles avec Profil, Favoris et informations Real Life
👥 La liste d’amis pour les résidents connectés
💌 La gestion des IM Offline
🌍 La liste de ses régions et l’accès à ManagerSim
🛠️ Les outils d’administration pour l’équipe BloodMoon

Les nouveaux Web Profiles permettent également aux visiteurs de rechercher les résidents BloodMoon et de consulter directement depuis le site la partie publique de leur profil.

🔐 Les informations privées restent privées : les amis, les IM Offline et la gestion des régions personnelles ne sont accessibles qu’au propriétaire du profil.

✨ Et ce n’est qu’un début !

Nous prévoyons également par la suite :

🌍 La possibilité de traduire les pages, afin de rendre le site plus accessible à notre communauté internationale
🌙 Un thème sombre, pour ceux qui préfèrent une interface plus foncée

BloodMoon continue d’évoluer progressivement, tout en gardant le même objectif : proposer une grille OpenSimulator accueillante, ouverte et simple à utiliser pour tous.

Venez découvrir le nouveau site ! ❤️

🔗 https://bloodmoonpack.com/grid/

Bingo Bingo Bingo! at 8am - 10am SLT (4pm - 6pm UK)
Come and join us for a few Games of Bingo
And have a laughter and a banter
Experience a new Bingo system, made special for AMV!
everybody is welcome to come and play
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

👉 New in our little Shop ヅ

⇨ Luxury Sofa
✓ 8 Colors to choose from
✓ Singles
✓ Cuddles / Adult
✓ MF / MMF / FFM

⇨ Chinese Zheng
✓ 3 Versions
✓ Male / Female
✓ Click for play original Melody

Enjoy! ヅ We hope you'll find something good for you ...ღ

P.S. You'll find more new beautiful Stuff and naughty Furniture for You... made with Love ...ღ
🚖 hop://spacegrid.online:6002/Te_Le/191/74/26

Dj Kitty Live on stage, Come join her for her 2 hours Musical Set.
If you love pink this is the place :)
everybody is welcome to join us

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

Pictured above, the Friends Grid Reservation system.





It's easy to make the move to Friends Grid!

1. Make an account at https://friends-grid.com/

2. Add friends grid to firestorm: login.friends-grid.com:8002

Directions here: https://friends-grid.com/howto


3. Log in and decide which island you like best here: https://friends-grid.com/free-land

4. Read the Rules, make an lm and reserve the land you want


5. The land will be set for you to buy

6. Say Hi, Hola, Hello, Ciao.....we love to get to know our new residents!


Welcome Home.....to Friends Grid!

You are not a number here.....you are a real person!


* limited sim size, free parcels with 10,000 prims are available to people who want to make this their main home and become a part of this growing community.

4x4 VAR Regions with 160,000 prim are available for $25/month

Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details.

We have a new automatic machine translation module for chat tested in dev grid ready for Holoneon. There are no huds or rez balls or annoying repeated popups.
The module supports libretranslate, google-nmt, and google-llm translation engines. So you can run a local instance of libretranslate on your server if you want for free, or you can get your key for google api / or google llm.
the first time you land on the grid you get a dialog box to choose your language, or you can opt out. it will store your preference in the database and every time you visit the grid the language is set. you can change in local with simple commands /884422 EN (or ES, DE, PT, etc) set language. /884422 off /884422 status
The module is optimized to only perform one translation per pair, per chatting av. so if there are 5 english users, 2 portuguese and 3 german, it will only translate once per en-de-pt. you can download from github and build or you can pay me to install it on your grid.

🖤 WE ARE BACK — SUBTERRANEA 🖤
You thought we were gone?
😂 Cute.
We’ve been hiding UNDERGROUND, charging the speakers, feeding the demons and arguing over who gets the better tunes.
This time we're bringing DJ Chocolate & Adrian Moon together for a proper subterranean takeover — and this one is all about NU DISCO. 🪩🔥
🍫 DJ CHOCOLATE — 11AM → 1PM
🌙 ADRIAN MOON — 1PM → 3PM
Expect funky basslines, disco grooves, shimmering synths, dirty little edits, deep house flavours and enough groove to make even the furniture start dancing. 🪩😂
Basically... disco went underground, got darker, got sexier and found a bassline.
📍 SUBTERRANEA
grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002
Come for the music.
Stay because you’ve forgotten where the exit is. 😂
🖤 NU DISCO • DEEP GROOVES • UNDERGROUND ENERGY
🪩 MUSIC • PEOPLE • UNDERGROUND • AGAIN
WE ARE BACK. 🔥🔊

💕 Introducing SoulTether — The OpenSim Partner System for WordPress!

Hey Opensim family! 🌟

We're thrilled to announce the release of SoulTether, our brand new WordPress plugin that brings a fully-featured avatar partnering system to OpenSimulator grids!

What is SoulTether?
SoulTether allows grid residents to send, accept, and manage avatar partnerships directly from your WordPress website — with changes syncing live to your in-world profile!

✨ Features:
💌 Send Tether Requests — with a personal message
✅ Accept or Decline incoming requests
↩️ Withdraw a request you've had second thoughts about
💔 Untether — because sometimes souls drift apart
📊 Admin Dashboard for grid operators
📬 Email notifications built in (can be turned off)

🔗 Built for the Community:
SoulTether is free and open source (GPL-2.0) and available right now on GitHub for any OpenSim grid running w4os!

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/mteedev/soultether

Together is Better! 💕

To those asking to open a shop at their own Grid, my License allows that. I just ask that you follow the TOS, keep the avatars current as I update often. A Landmark to the Original store at EccentricaGallumbits region. And please remember to credit the creator. EccentricaGallumbits/Marianna Monentes
three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/Eccentrica%20Gallumbits/393/506/54

"Every great adventure begins with a single spore."

PLANS FOR 2027
Here’s a little sneak peek at the exciting discussions underway for the return of Bla Bla Bla…

A fresh new look.
A new dedicated team.
A renewed experience with even more to come.

The plans are taking shape, and Bla Bla Bla is getting ready to return bigger, fresher, and better than ever!

Watch this space… 2027 is going to be exciting!

WHO’S READY FOR AN LINKUP ROAD TRIP? ?✨

Today is the day — let’s hit the road! ?️

☕ Coffee is ready!
Cookies are packed!
⛽ The tank is full!
The wheels are ready to roll!
And the adventure awaits!

Come join us for a road trip through OpenSim, discovering amazing places, beautiful regions, hidden gems, and maybe a few unexpected stops along the way!

Bring your camera!
Bring your sense of adventure!
And bring yourself!

Let’s explore, laugh, chat, and see where the road

When you visit Tumbletwig, you will find Twinklebud's shop. It is a big stump with wonderful gifts inside. When you enter you will see a shelf with Flower givers. Inside each is a gift. Thank you to everyone for stopping by and sharing your adventures with us. three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:TUMBLETWIG