!!! New Release!!!

For the rugged men of Opensim

*** BUFFALO PLAID jACKETS ***

These jackets are a single mesh release of the Open Front Jacket available in 12 colors for our rugged Lumberjacks.

Enjoy!!!

OpensimFest is a machine with many moving parts, and dedicated volunteers help to keep it running smoothly. Curious about who's who at the Fest? Check out this profile of Contessa Lacombe, the Exhibit Coordinator
https://www.opensimfest.com/post/meet-exhibitor-organizer-...

I have made a throne that you can sit on, out of prims, so it won't disappear when you walk away. I think it's sort of elven. I have also made a scroll as a region teleporter for my grid. You have to edit it yourself, but You can put your different regions on the scroll, and when guests click the name they are teleported to that region instantly, as long as it is in the same grid.

Fun with Building - the main access from the harbor is now complete. I'm the tiny little speck on the stairs to the left of the lower access opening. The style of the region is less ancient history and more like my take on a Stargate vibe :-)

New Region now Open at Phantom Rose Grid: Akrotiri! This is the starting region for all of Phantom Rose Mer Nation. The beacon lands you underwater and by using the Mer Portal system, you will never need to be out of water while visiting the 7 other Mer areas on Phantom Rose. Each area has a unique gift. In all you can collect 3 sets of free Fins for mermaids and tritons, 2 coral reefs, and 3 rideables ( Shark, Swordfish and Dolphin)! The new Medieval area also has Seahorse Chariot racing. 6 colors. Get the full description from my blog https://lannorrasion.wordpress.com/2022/05/26/phantom-rose...

https://youtu.be/gwH9ZrtVLAM
"Pangea Porky-Freakout!
Friday, May 20. 2022
☆ Live and in color present: Pangea Porky Famliy.
☆ 11 PDT / 20.00 European time
☆ On the music desk Grid Sow :-) Marlon Wayne
☆Taxi pangeagrid.ddns.net:8002: Porky Party Pangea
☆Pangea Info: www.pangea-grid.com
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"Pangea lässt die Sau raus"
Freitag, 20. Mai 2022
☆ Live und in Farbe anwesend: Ponky Pangea Famlie
☆ 11 PDT/ 20.00 Uhr europäischer Zeit
☆ Am Musikpult Gridsau :-) Marlon Wayne

I have been finding beautiful necklaces at Sketchfab! Whenever I find one that I think you will enjoy I will add to my collection! I will add the note indicating such so that you can determine which is Sketchfab! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

It has been a while since I created a wedding set. Since it is May it has me thinking of weddings and flowers and thought it would be nice to create a pretty wedding set for this summer. Feuille Wedding Set has a wedding ring, engagement ring, and the pair linked. This has a resize script so you can get the correct size. You will find it in the Wedding section of the Monentes Jewelry Store. continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Just wanted to put a quick note of clarification for the group and visitors. I have received a few messages of people claiming to be STAFF of Amoa. This is the fact:
Glenn Xpletive and Robin Sission are the ONLY Staff members.
However The grid owners of Barefoot-dreamers Grid, can be contacted in the event of their absence. NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER BE STAFF. Glenn built the beach, terraforming, trees, waves, islands. Robin Sisson has made it the beautiful region it is. So please give a warm thank you to Robin for all of her decorating and amenities that have made Amoa such a great place.

If anyone else tries to claim they are staff, or if you need assistance, please contact Glenn, Robin, Huga or Gabe.

I was just asked how did I create glasses, this is a video I did while back https://youtu.be/iVPiH4ptMlw basically I use silhouettes then extract the curves, then extrude. This is using Rhino Software but it is the same in Blender, you would extract curves from an image then extrude them. Thank you for your interest!

You can now upload 360 panoramic images for your region's page. If you edit your region's settings you can find a new option to upload a 360 image. You can make 360 snapshots with the latest Firestorm

The Subtle And The Not So Subtle
The fat pack for these jeans includes this pair with a very subtle and very lovely floral pattern. The off-shoulder sweater? Not so subtle. You get fat packs of all but one of the outfit items. And still unique as far as I know, you get a pre-set body alpha HUD.

oh HELLO: Outfits with Options.
fireandicegrid.net:8002/Xinashi

The Secrets of DragonFyre:
DragonFyre castle has many many secrets, and since some people are not aware of all the secrets I thought I would share them here. Dragonfyre has many secret passages.
1) Behind the red couch between the deer heads in the entrance to the castle. Click the wall to find a set of stairs. Go down the stairs and follow the path to a trap door. Open this trap door, and follow the path to another trap door. Open the second trap door, and go down the stairs to the hidden wine cellar. In the corner of the wine cellar is a wine registry bookcase. Click the bookcase and a secret staircase appears. Go down the secret staircase to an iron door. Open the iron door and go down the hall to another bookcase on the right. Click this bookcase and it opens into the chef's office.

2) Behind the chef's office is the chef's bedroom. If you go into the chef's bedroom and click the wall paneling to the right, a hidden room is revealed full of magic.
3) In the rust room the bookcase leads to a small hidden room.
4) if you open the dungeon door just off the kitchen, click the floor to reveal a staircase which leads down to the dungeon. In the huge castle dungeon, there is a vampires room encased in stone.

The Secrets of DragonFyre: There are 2 caves on dragonfyre sim. One is hidden very well in the woods and has luminous blue water running down the sides. The other cave is a large cave beneath the 2nd bridge that you can reach by boat. There is a sign that rezzes boats in the lake.
Once you go into this cave under the bridge you find a dragon and a gold treasure. Just past the treasure, you will see a white dragon egg nestled in the rocks. Click the egg and a saddle appears. Sit on the saddle and a dragon npc rezzes. You may also let a friend ride the dragon with you. However it is not easy to fly dragons out of the cave. pgUp key and pgDown key control the inclination of the dragon, and arrow keys control the direction you travel. If you fly the dragon out of the cave and over the pond and fly up through the trees you can soar into the air with the other dragons flying around the castle.
There is a hidden church on the land not far from the tiny gazebo.

Mysteriously... The gate which worked fine last night, didn't work today. Also I found that all the prims and scripts had been changed. (Someone is either a super hacker or a voodoo witch doctor, and im not sure which...) Anyway after being visited by the jealous talentless people once again... I've repaired it to full working order. We will call this version 5. So... here we go...
New! Amazing! Pegasus stargate that actually rotates and dials other sims and grids!!! PLUS this one has a working DHD, the dialer device in front of the gate in the photo that talks to the gate and actually will dial the place for you!!! NOW FREE AT cyberdatastorm.com:8002:Free Magic COME GET YOURS TODAY!!!

Reserve your spot now. Registration for all roles is open and is free to everyone. Sponsor levels are available:

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I love Steampunk! You can see the Airship on both Mobius and Kitely

HG Address: main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Lunaria

HG Address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

Kitely Market Store: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

I share the sentiment towards the people of Ukraine, I also became sad with the people of Iraq, or Libya, Yemen, Somalia or Pakistan. But I didn't see flags of those countries when the U.S. invaded them. It is curious to see how it is OCCUPATION when the US invades a country, but when another world power occupies a country it is called INVASION. We should put politics aside and think only about the suffering of those countries that are illegally occupied by others.

Weiter geht es mit guter Laune aus dem Soul Grid!

Nachdem der Sturm uns ordentlich durchgeschüttelt hat, wollen wir wieder ein wenig die Sonne ins Herz lassen.
Heute Abend legt unsere Grid Mudder Nasti in der blauen Lagune auf.
Um 20 Uhr geht´s im Tosca los.
Sie spielt heiße Rhythmen, die uns in die Welt von Sonne, Strand und Meer entführen.
Und natürlich , wie immer, Eure Wünsche.

Wir freuen uns auf Euch !

Let´s party at Soul Grid !
We are having a Beach Party at our nice blue lagoon location.
Meet Djane Nasti playing the hottest tunes from sun and the south
We are starting at 11PST at Tosca.

Let´s party together !

(German beaches in a nutshell)

Since Nico has already mentioned it in her comment on part 1 (https://opensimworld.com/post/85841), and since this has been my plan from the very beginning, here's the other part of my "beach talk". What about beaches that aren't in the tropics?

Way too many beaches are a) tropical with lots of naturally-grown palm trees and b) flat. It's a trope that's commonly known in Second Life as Tropical Beach Paradise (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tropical_Beach_Paradise). The reason for the abundance of these may be that most beaches are built by people who only know beaches from TV and have never seen one in real life.

But there are so many other ways to build a beach, at least in theory, sometimes actually carried out. Beaches that may be more relatable to especially those of us who know beaches.

Something that has been done, for example, is the kind of beach you often find in Mediterranean coastal towns in southern France. A seawall with a more or less wide beach in front of it and something that could qualify as a promenade on top of it. Destination Fécamp (https://opensimworld.com/hop/86967) has quite a good one, realistic to the point of only one lounger on the entire beach being free and so much surf that you start asking yourself if you should actually go into the water (which you can because Fecamp does that right). Les pieds de sable (https://opensimworld.com/hop/79417) used to have a somewhat different one with less sand and more seawall.

The North American boardwalk beach has been done more often than you may think. For one, there are the many iterations of Linda Kellie's Boardwalk Amusement Park; Lucia Island (https://opensimworld.com/hop/83640) and AMSmediterrania (https://opensimworld.com/hop/87777) both make use of it. One of the best examples, however, has to be scratch-made Coney Island (https://opensimworld.com/hop/87886) where the rides alone can keep you busy for quite a while.

Most of TexLand (https://opensimworld.com/dir/?grid=texland.no-ip.biz:8002) is somewhere in-between because it mimicks islands on the South Texan Gulf coast. There are palms, yes, but there are also seawalls, there are no traces of Tiki style, and it still feels very close to the U.S. mainland.

What I'd like to see done on a somewhat larger scale than at Gridtalk (https://opensimworld.com/hop/78056) are the various styles of northern German beaches. Gridtalk mimicks what formerly West German Baltic Sea beaches often look like, and that's an interesting style, but it could be taken further. In this style, the dunes behind the beach are a given, but they need grass on top and maybe the occasional seagull nest. Speaking of fauna: seagulls, seagulls, jellyfish (which fortunately aren't available on the Hypergrid; I hope it stays that way) and more seagulls (notice how I didn't mention mosquitos).

Unless it's a natural beach, have a promenade behind the dunes with fences between the promenade and the dunes and all kinds of amenities from small shops to hotels (I recommend at least one big hotel tower, even if it's just a few textured prims) on the land side of the promenade. If you're daring enough, build an indoor pool right behind the promenade as well. Just because it's a beach, doesn't mean it's perpetual summer. Instead of lifeguard chairs, install one DLRG station for the entire beach. Also, LOTS of beach baskets. If you want to take the German-ness to the logical extreme, make tiny parcels for the beach baskets which can be rented.

The formerly East German variant would combine this with a long wooden structure between a pier and a boardwalk that extends from the raised promenade across the beach into the water. We call it a "sea bridge". These things were built in times when the wealthy tourists who came there didn't dare to step into the water yet. Somewhere on top of it should be a white-walled wooden building with at least a café/restaurant and an event location in it.

The North Sea variant usually doesn't have beach baskets and a promenade because it isn't part of a town (unless you want to mimic places like St. Peter-Ording or Westerland which would be beach themes of their own). No trees because the area has probably been treeless for centuries (chances are, part of it was sea until a few decades ago). Replace the dunes with a dyke. Optionally, fence the dyke in and add sheep on the dyke to the fauna. (Only sheep because cattle would ruin the dyke.) Add vast mudflats on the seaside which may or may not be under water (set the mud to phantom for extra fun so your feet sink in up to your ankles). Any and all architecture on the sim must be Frisian. Dress code: barefoot (or Wellingtons), rolled-up jeans, windbreaker.

You could make it eerier by building it as a varsim with even vaster mudflats from which sometimes a church bell rings even though there isn't a single church on the sim, much less out on the mudflats.

Also, the North Sea allows for small islands, only that they're called "holms" instead of "islands". Surround the whole thing with mudflats. Don't skimp on sheep. And instead of having dykes, every last building has to be built on a mound no less than four or five metres high.

But let's go back to the Baltic Sea. Natural beach variants should have cliffs. Not rocks, clay. Or white chalk (works both in former East Germany and Denmark). But preferably clay. If it's clay, boulders on the beach are a given. This is the kind of beach where campfires are the most likely.

Something in-between (not quite natural, no beach baskets, no promenade, but the occasional shop and the DLRG station) exists, too. It often comes with a camping site behind it which is a requirement for surf spots. This kind of beach is also the typical German nudist beach. Don't forget "FKK" signs. However, keep the rating Moderate and sex furniture inside the campers or tents. If you really want to go full cliché, fill the camping site behind your FKK beach with Trabants, Wartburgs and QEK campers.

Danish beaches would be similar to German ones, but even less urban, more likely with wooden summer cottages behind the dykes/dunes (per-week rent boxes, anyone?) and always clothing-optional. Oh, and think twice before you put up Linda Kellie's hot dog cart: In Denmark, hot dogs are sold at least from a trailer, if not a snack bar. But one of these is pretty much mandatory. Also, røde pølser (red sausages).