Speakeasy's Featured Artist series returns this weekend with the band YELLO!
A mix of music from the 60's until today featuring MANY tracks from the band YELLO!

One of Opensimulator's Longest continually running Dance Parties! 10 years and counting!! LIVE DJ and Dancing!! Music from the 60's to current day!

Tonight at 8pm Pacific!

HG: lfgrid.com:8002:speakeasy

Today I want to tell you about Haven of Memories and my Dear friend, Lavia Lavine who created it with her own builds as well as stuff from many talented folks in our Metaverse. One of her best talents in MHO is putting together "Scenes". One of her best qualities is her loving heart...and her orneriness. ;) This fountain was put together using her own stuff as well as many other talented creators' work. You can't tell by the photo but the water moves down the steps perfectly and she worked hard to make it happen. Amazing to see in person! It isn't linked so you can't just come and grab it. I am showing this to you because it is simply stunning and the whole region is peaceful, comforting, and beautiful for reflection, memories, and feeling close to your loved ones. What a beautiful Memorial Garden! You don't even have to have an account on the grid to have a memorial of your loved one here. The only requirement is that they lived a Virtual life on any grid in the Metaverse. It is a way for all of us to remember them in one place that we can visit at any time. I took this photo because I thought this was so beautiful and everyone should know that it is there for all of us!!! Thanks, Lavia!

I won't be on much or building much for a while my graphics card is having a stroke and in the process of dying. Working on getting a new one but not an easy process on a fixed income. Hope to see you all soon as I can.

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Ⓞ░░(¯`·.\ /.·´¯)░Osgrid Events Plaza
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hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza

Hey Everyone :)
I'm performing at EVent Plaza today!
I'm gonna be doing Song that I grew up with
Some I am familiar with Some I havent sang before!
Join me for some FUN!
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴1:00pm ∵∴ ❈
» Шhere: ✫EVENT PLAZA✫
◂◄◀ MAP ▶►▸hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza

Classic Closet is now complete. I have more clothing added, purses, and this cool backpack. Swimsuits, lingerie, and jogging suits - all for the classic avatar. virtual-hg.com:8002/Catena%20di%20isole/397/297/32

My Regions Are Mime and Puppet Free!
Pantomime and puppetry are part of the Dramatic Arts, and my regions are No Drama zones. Show up as a mime, a puppet, or a puppet mime and you are banned I tell you. Banned!

DJ Macy's Friday Night Blues Party at Rockin' The Blues!! 6:00 to 9:00PM (SLT)!!
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 6:00PM grid time
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
It's finally Friday! And time for those merry mischief makers, DJ Macy and her hosts Pixie and Amara! Macy has the upbeat, feel good blues you love all wrapped up in laughter and lively chat with the Blues Tribe! Macy searches out the most fun blues tunes for you every week! Her library contains the happiest tunes...the ones you need to get your weekend started!! Come on down to the swamp and let's Rock those blues!!!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

DJ Country Bob plays a wide variety of musical genres to
tickle your tastebuds! Come join us in Bob's friendly, welcoming
stress free, drama free space! He will spin your cares away!
◂◄◀DJ COUNTRY BOB AT THE VM PAVILLION▶►▸
» DJ BOB
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴5:00PM ∵∴ ❈
» Шhere: ✫ VIRTUAL MELODY PAVILLION✫
» Шhat: •LIVE DJ•
◂◄◀ MAP ▶►▸ login.virtualmelody.net:8002:VM Welcome Plaza

Burning ships! Want to win such a ship? Visit Catronian Archipelago, enter the door to the Riddle stone hunt, search the gemstones ( you get gifts ) , solve the riddle and win a ship of your choice from this collection! You can use the ship to participate in our battles. https://www.kitely.com/market/product/61399680/Sea-Eagle-S...

Littlefield Grid's monthly State of the Grid meeting. - IMPORTANT for residents to attend!! All Residents and HG Visitors are welcome!

Friday 02/03/2023 1:30PM Pacific

Today's Topics:
New Littlefield Welcome Region and Hangout for 2023, Valentine Dance, HG Safari visit to Ruritania, Family Game Night.

What's going on, everybody? First time trying my hand at doing a shameless plug here on OSW, but hi! I'm DJ Persona and I am bringing the musical mayhem to Adachi at 1pm PST!

Come one, come all!!! Requests welcome, 2 hours of chaos and madness!!!

hop://grid.copykat.ovh:12000/Adachi/117/145/22

Heute heißt es im Moonrose Club "Alaaf" und "Helau"! Die 5. Jahreszeit ist angebrochen und wir nehmen das zum Anlass, ordentlich die Sau raus zu lassen!

Für flotte Beats sorgt der kölner Party-DJ Rico. Mit im Gepäck hat er die größten Karnevalshits aus der aktuellen und den vergangenen Sessionen und natürlich auch das Beste aus Rock, Charts und Euren Musikwünschen! Flotte Sprüche und seine freche Schnauze sind für eine Karnevalsfete ein absolutes muss. Lasst Euch überraschen.

Kostüme sind herzlich erwünscht aber natürlich kein muss.

Jeder der Kostümiert kommt hat freien Eintritt, alle anderen kommen umsonst rein! ;-)

Wir freuen uns auf Euch und eine tolle Party mit guter Laune und jeder Menge
Spaß!
On Friday, 03.02.2023 it's "Alaaf" and "Helau" in the Moonrose Club! The 5th season has begun and we take this as an opportunity to properly let out the sow!

The party DJ Rico from Cologne will provide the lively beats. He has the greatest carnival hits from the current and past seasons in his luggage and of course also the best from rock, charts and your music wishes! Snappy sayings and his cheeky snout are an absolute must for a carnival party. Let us surprise you.

Costumes are welcome but of course not a must.

Everyone who comes in costume has free entry, all others come in for free ;-)

We are looking forward to you and a great party with good mood and lots of fun!

***SAVE THE DATE!***

Interlude is Proud to present.. A valentines Celebration & Art Show Featuring RL/VL Artist Viktor Savior.
Viktor, is well known in his art community for his art expos in Spain & Mexico. He is the founder of the Unity Art Project, and has been in Virtual Worlds since 2018. His artwork is stunning and beautiful. A Must See!

Also featuring Live Performances by
12:00pm Ouienanda
1:00pm Djembe Dragonfire
2:00pm Samuel James

Lots of art and live performances! You don't want to miss this event! Save the date!!

How come I barely ever see furniture, especially OpenSim-made furniture, with SFposer? It's always either PMAC or, if people don't even know PMAC or dislike its shortcomings, AVsitter.

Maybe it's because nobody knows that SFposer even exists. But it does: (https://opensimworld.com/library?view=44). A starter pack with a copy of the manual can be found on Satyr's sim OpenSimWorld (https://opensimworld.com/hop/74730).

For those who don't know it, and I guess it's most of you: SFposer is an animation controller. Much like AVsitter which can be found in just about all furniture copybotted from SL, probably also because it uses AVsitter in SL already which you can simply replace after the scripts got lost in transition. Very similar to PMAC which is often used in furniture made in and for OpenSim. And somewhat like poseball-based MLP which was state-of-the-art about a decade ago.

In other words, it makes those blue menus that pop up when you sit down on a chair or a bed, and that let you choose your sitting animation. This is what an animation controller does. This is what AVsitter and PMAC do. And this is what SFposer does.

Like PMAC which was created by the same person as the Clubmaster dance ball and those line dance floors, SFposer was made in OpenSim and for OpenSim. Its creator and maintainer is Satyr Aeon, the same person who runs OpenSimWorld and who also gave us the Satyr Farm and SFsail. And it's open-source, but that's what PMAC, AVsitter and MLP are, too.

Now, what's so great about SFposer? In which way shall it be better than PMAC and omnipresent AVsitter?

In general, SFposer combines all advantages of PMAC with almost all advantages of AVsitter. And it adds being the least resource-heavy animation controller on top. SFposer furniture only needs one single script, no matter what. And this one script safely shuts down after use.

If you compare it with PMAC, it's extremely similar. In fact, SFposer is backwards-compatible with PMAC. You can easily convert PMAC furniture to SFposer without even touching the config, just by replacing a few bits and pieces.

Its major advantage over PMAC is that everyone can adjust their position. This has always been AVsitter's killer feature over PMAC. With PMAC, only the owner can adjust positions and even this only by editing the piece of furniture and moving the position markers around. With SFposer, everyone can does that. SFposer is the ultimate animation controller for romantic and especially sex furniture.

Also, while PMAC is already easy on resources, SFposer is even easier. As I've already mentioned, SFposer only uses one script, and this script can do everything. PMAC's main script doesn't offer much beyond basic functionality. Extra functions require plug-ins, i.e. more scripts. SFposer doesn't need plugins.

This advantage is even bigger over AVsitter which is still widely considered the be-all, end-all, ultimate animation controller. AVsitter always needs two scripts per avatar. For absolute bare-bone functionality. A park bench for two needs four scripts at the very least. Any extra feature is an extra script. You want to make an orgy bed for four avatars with some extra bells and whistles? That's a dozen scripts at least. SFposer can do the same with one single script. The same and more.

This also means that SFposer can do stuff out-of-the-box for which AVsitter add-ons are very hard to find, if there are any in the first place. For example, NPCs. Or rezzing props on the furniture. Or rezzing props on avatars, e.g. in their hands. SFposer can put a mug in your hand if you're sitting on a café chair. All with that one script. Okay, the mug itself needs an internal script, but that isn't any different from PMAC.

Besides, SFposer makes it fairly easy for creators to adjust initial avatar positions when making furniture or scripting unscripted furniture. Just like PMAC, you can put it into edit mode, and then you get position marker prims which you can push around. No manually entering coordinates into notecards or something. Speaking of which: If you copy the SFposer settings from another similar but differently-sized piece of furniture, you don't have to re-adjust everything. You can instead enter a general offset for all animation positions. This also makes slapping an invisible prim onto furniture just for animations unnecessary.

AVsitter has only got one major advantage over both SFposer and PMAC: Since it comes from Second Life (don't worry, it's still legal), it's written in LSL, and it works on sims where pretty much all OSSL has been disabled by the sim or grid owner. Exceptions apply whenever an AVsitter-scripted piece of furniture can do something that doesn't exist in Second Life: Since Second Life doesn't have NPCs, you can't control them with LSL; it takes OSSL to control them. Thus, the rare NPC plug-in for AVsitter is written in OSSL.

Some minor advantages include a camera control plug-in and being able to specify different default starter animations for male and female avatars. Mimics control isn't AVsitter-exclusive; it's built into SFposer, too.

Those long-time OpenSim users amongst you who are several years behind in OpenSim technology may still see MLP as state-of-the-art because it was just that in their days. But PMAC already rendered MLP obsolete, and PMAC came before AVsitter.

So here are the advantages over MLP:

You don't have to click the furniture first before using it, nor do you have to wait for SFposer to initialise itself first. You can sit down right on the furniture instead of having to wait for poseballs to rez. There are no poseballs. Again, you can adjust your position even if you aren't the owner of the furniture. You can have NPCs. And it only takes one lightweight script to do what often requires over a dozen CPU-hogging scripts in MLP. MLP is easily the most resource-heavy animation controller out there; SFposer is the most lightweight one.

Fortunately, you can convert furniture from MLP to SFposer. You can also convert it from PMAC or AVsitter to SFposer.

PMAC to SFposer is easy: You throw out all scripts, you drop three items from the SFposer starter pack in, you reset the script, and you're done. Even tinkering with the config is optional. If you have plug-ins, convert their configs with this: https://opensimworld.com/tools/pmac

MLP and AVsitter to SFposer requires a bit more of an effort because you need new notecards. The notecard converter for MLP is here: https://opensimworld.com/tools/mlp2pmac The one for AVsitter's AVpos is here: https://opensimworld.com/tools/avpos2pmac

Hello everyone!

Here is the group URL for joining the OpenSim Military Community in-world: hop://login.osgrid.org/app/group/f7626e49-5a72-4e3b-a6e1-0...

Attached is a picture of what the official group looks like to join. If easier, you may also search for my user "Caesar Luxington" and can join the group from my profile.

Thank you and have a wonderful day,
Caesar.

Hello!

We are making a change for regions that are closed to group access only. While it is allowed to list your region here (if it is hypergrid-accessible), your region must be assigned to the category "Group Access/Private". You can go to your region's page to change that category.

The regions that are group-only will be marked with a [G] in the beacon and in the website listings