From my heart to this incredible community—thank you.
Thank you for the creativity, the kindness, the shared knowledge, the laughter, and the quiet help that often goes unseen. This space exists because of people like you, and I’m deeply grateful for your friendship, ✌
Wishing you peace, rest, and inspiration this holiday season.
—Love, Mari 💕

Important Notice
The NEW LIFE ITALY shopping center will be temporarily closed for maintenance work.
At the moment, we are unable to provide a specific reopening date, but what we can guarantee is that we are working hard to offer you an even better and more exciting experience.
When we reopen, you can look forward to many amazing new features:
- beautiful new women’s and men’s clothing,
- unique items you’ve never seen before,
- and many surprises created especially for you.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.
A big hug to all of you and Happy Holidays from the NEW LIFE ITALY team 🎄

Alina Custom Vehicles

Race cars are finally in.

Indy, Touring cars, Pro Stock cars, F1 cars. ALL DRIVEABLE

3 full sims of vehicles approximately 700 different vehicles in stock

A great addition to the already huge amount of vehicles and trucks in region.

Region teleporter for easy access or take a segway ride at your leisure

Brand new truck showroom with NEW trucks added.

Lots of new things to see i cant list all here.so come over and find things you didnt think you needed

All vehicles drive unless stated

hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Alina%20Custom%20Vehicles/118/35/22

All vehicles can be altered or modified should you need, adjustments or additions happily done on request..

***let`s do it just again***

Event begins: 2025-12-05 ...... 12:00pm SLT / 09:00pm GMT

The first party was a huge success and so much fun! So let's do it just again and make it amazing once more!! The Weed Shack is calling you back to the dance floor. It starts at 12pm Grid Time with DJ ChiChi playing minimal techno tunes.
come over and have fun with us again,we are waiting of you ♥♥♥

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199081945@N02/54959367903/in...

Meine Weihnachtswelt ist fertig. War zwar viel Arbeit aber am Ende wird man belohnt wenn man sich das Ergebnis anschaut. Danke an Alle die hier Shops haben und wo ich mir alles zusammen holen konnte. Tolle Arbeit die ihr Alle leistet und das für nichts. Wir können euch nicht genug danken. Eine schöne Weihnachtszeit für euch alle und kommt gut ins neue Jahr.

My Christmas world is finished. It was a lot of work, but in the end, it's so rewarding when you see the result. Thank you to everyone who has shops here and where I could get everything. You all do such amazing work, and for nothing! We can't thank you enough. Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas season and a happy New Year.

In OpenSim, people don’t really vanish.
Sure — the avatar logs off, the profile goes still, and the regions they touched fall a little quieter. But the truth is, no one who poured their creativity into this world ever truly leaves it behind.

Every builder, scripter, artist, designer, and dreamer who passes on becomes something more permanent than any prim or mesh:
they become a new star over our metaverse.

A bright point of light watching over the worlds we keep shaping.

Their work, their ideas, their imagination — those stay woven into the grids, the stories, the landmarks, and the communities they helped grow. And every time we rez a prim, sculpt a landscape, or chase some wild idea just to see if we can… we’re carrying their spark forward.

We honor them best by continuing to build boldly.
By creating freely.
By keeping OpenSim vibrant, weird, beautiful, and alive.

Because the metaverse doesn’t forget its creators — it turns them into constellations.

And we look up, keep going, and make sure our worlds shine even brighter. #Luna #Mal #Torben #Triz

About the newest Firestorm Viewer: I want to love it, but I don't. I really do love PBR materials and they show up just fine with the new viewer and they seem to have fixed the blurry, out of focus view when you move around in-world. Problem is, Animesh. I have to be right on top of the animesh to see it move. Koshari and I were in-world tonight and couldn't see any animesh moving unless we were right next to them and even then they seemed to lag out a bit. We both changed our viewer to the old, pre PBR viewer 6.6.17 and could see the animesh moving from all the way across the sim. My guess is that, because you are constantly rendering PBR textures in-world, they decreased the animation visibility to compensate for it. Until Firestorm gives us a toggle, slider, or patch to bring back proper animation distance, sticking with 6.6.17 is the smart move. The PBR viewer is beautiful, but not worth sacrificing functional animesh. That's a hard pass for me
Anyone have thoughts on this? Does anyone have any inside scoop on whether they plan on fixing this.

“Animation culling” is basically the viewer deciding not to bother updating animations for things that are “too far away” or “not important enough.”

Think of it as Firestorm saying:
“Hmm… you’re 40 meters away from that animesh? Yeah, I’m not wasting CPU cycles on making it dance. Freeze frame it is.”

More technically:

Animation Culling = Distance-Based Animation Shutdown

The viewer stops updating animations on avatars or animesh once they’re beyond a certain distance or priority threshold.
Instead of actually animating them, it just shows the last frame and saves performance.

Why viewers do it

To reduce:

CPU load

GPU load

Network updates

Overall rendering cost

In the PBR viewer, the rendering pipeline is heavier (PBR = shiny but hungry), so the viewer culls animations more aggressively.
What is the point of animesh if it only animates when you’re making out with it?

Grand Opening Gala, Golden Dreams Ballroom tonight at 6:00pm!
Mermaid’s Cove, OS Grid
hg.osgrid.org:80:Mermaid's Cove

“Step into the magic, stay for the music!”

Step into a world of glamour and enchantment as the Golden Dreams Ballroom opens its doors for the very first time on the OS Grid!

Your favorite DJ, DJ Macy, will ignite the night with her sensational mix of rock, blues, and a few sparkling surprises that will keep the dance floor alive!

Expect elegance, energy, and unforgettable moments as we celebrate the beginning of something truly magical! Dress to impress — formal or dressy casual attire encouraged. Shine, shimmer, and show off your style!
Couples AND Singles but NO CHILDREN!!

My PBR Japanese Home at Lunaria Emporium has been updated with better reflection probe coverage and improved day lighting inside. As seen in the photo, there are light switches in each room that control the different zones and the colors represent different lighting types.

Blue is for inside daylight and red is for the interior lamplight. The green one is only in the front room and out in the garden in the pavilion and controls exterior lighting.

If you have a previous version of this home, please contact me in Discord for an updated version https://discord.gg/SMBaqan3Ny If you would like to know more about reflection probes and PBR, check out the Tutorials channel in my Discord server.

You can walk through the home at the Emporium by clicking the Japanese sign on the left as you enter the lobby.

Happy Birthday, Ferd Frederix! 🎉

Today we celebrate not just another trip around the sun, but the man who’s kept whole worlds spinning.

Ferd, thank you for the countless hours you’ve poured into OpenSim — the fine-tuning, the bug hunting, the late-night fixes, the jaw-dropping characters and assets you’ve created, and the tools you’ve built that make our grids feel like home.
You’ve kept servers alive when they should have flatlined, solved problems the rest of us couldn’t even pronounce, and inspired new creators with your generosity and skill.

The OpenSim community runs smoother, plays harder, and dreams bigger because of you.

Here’s to your brilliance, your humor, your creativity… and to many more years of building worlds with your signature magic.

Happy Birthday, Ferd — we adore you!💕😘

Just put out a few more new Christmas Items including a fireplace and medieval hearth, Coco the Christmas Mouse, and a baby Christmas Owl and much more. Stop by and visit our Holidays & Seasons section to find some one of a kind Christmas Items that are free, full perm and made by your truly. Blessings and much love, Lavia

Ages ago, I satirized events in SL like "Best in Bikini" and "Best in Cute" with my “Best In Demo” event. SL Creators used demo tags and took other such measures to prevent people from using a free version as a final, permanent piece. So, imagine your Avatar using a pre-mesh no-mod shape from a shop with demo sized huge hands and feet. You'd be wearing flexihair with demo signs attached. Add on a skin extensively tattooed with “demo,” and wearing clothing with the word demo woven into the texture. You'd have a nightmare of an avatar – and one that might win the “Best In Demo” event. The prize? A demo version of a trophy.

The event was hilarious, and so popular that other clubs copied the idea. You can say my “Best in Demo” event was a demo for Best In Demo events.Then came OS. Sadly, there are no demos here, and so, no Best In Demo events either. But there are other fun event ideas. Consider “Best In Complexity”. It's actually a bad event idea, and found in the OSW group "Best of Bad Event Ideas." The group has a new bad event idea: Best In Doomscrolling. Remember -- you can't get PTSD if you are the traumatic event. https://opensimworld.com/post/125621?msgSuccess=Posted

Add your own bad event idea to the group if you like.

✨ Mittelalterfest auf Washago ✨
Washago – ein Ort voller kleiner Dörfer, geheimer Winkel und zauberhafter Plätze zum Entdecken, Erkunden und Entspannen.
Und genau hier erwartet euch am 14. November ein ganz besonderes Highlight: das Mittelalterfest!
Ab 20:00 Uhr öffnen sich die Tore zu einer Welt voller Marktstimmung, Lichter, Geschichten und Klänge vergangener Zeiten.
Für die musikalische Reise sorgt niemand Geringerer als unser DJ Marlon Wayne, der das Mittelalter mit seinen Beats zum Tanzen bringt.
Kommt zahlreich, bringt eure Freunde mit – und lasst uns gemeinsam einen Abend voller Zauber, Freude und Gemeinschaft erleben.
🏰 Ihr seid von Herzen willkommen!
✨
✨ Medieval Festival on Washago ✨
Washago – a place full of small villages, hidden corners, and magical spots to discover, explore, and relax.
And it is right here that a very special highlight awaits you on November 14th: the Medieval Festival!
From 8:00 PM the gates will open to a world of market flair, lights, stories, and the sounds of times long past.
For the musical journey, none other than our DJ Marlon Wayne will bring the Middle Ages to life with his beats.
Come in great numbers, bring your friends – and let’s share an evening full of magic, joy, and togetherness.
🏰 You are warmly welcome!
pangeagrid.ddns.net:8002:Washago

Poppies to commemorate and honour Indigenous Veterans Day (November 8) and Remembrance Day/Veterans Day/Armistice Day (Nov 11). Touch for a poppy from either box giver in the Municipal Building on Birch Grove Winter. Lest we forget.

Another new item here in the Holidays & Seasons section of Masala Al Kohav Mall. These charming silver bells that can be used to decorate doorways, fence posts, porch posts, or just about anywhere that suits your fancy because they are full perm and free and they are musical playing that sweet Christmas song, of course, Silver Bells. Blessings and much love, Lavia. PS they are musical and play the Christmas song "Silver Bells".

Save the Date!

The Grand Opening celebration of the Synthetic Dreams inworld pavilion, part of the larger Wrong Biennale global digital art exhibition, is happening this coming Saturday, 8th of November 2025, at 12 pm grid time at the Kitely Expo Center.

HG Address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Kitely Expo Center

See the promo video here: https://youtu.be/7wgVmQI-jok?si=H3UxCz4iBXImDujD

Alina Custom Vehicles.

Now at OS grid a bigger store bringing unusual and unseen vehicles in Opensim.

Over 250 different vehicles to choose from, all vehicles are driveable

It costs nothing to look, so take home something great.

New vehicles being added weekly.

All vehicles can be altered or modified should you need, adjustments or additions happily done on request..

There are also copy items which are not Vehicles

hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Alina/110/42/22

Some areas i am still working on



Hope to see you soon.

X-petite: Vier Outfits, ein modischer Warnhinweis.

Weiß? Als wär’s ein Unschuldslamm mit Absatz. Streifen? Weil du dich nicht entscheiden musst, ob du süß oder gefährlich bist. Schwarz? Für alle, die beim Flirten lieber die Kontrolle behalten. Und Blau? Das Kleid, das aussieht wie „Ich hab keine Zeit für Smalltalk, ich bin hier, um zu glänzen.“

Diese Looks sind nicht für Leute, die sich fragen, ob das zu gewagt ist. Sie sind für Leute, die sich fragen, ob der Raum groß genug ist für ihr Ego und ihr Outfit. X-petite – trag’s, bevor es jemand anderer tut!

Autumnfest 2025 Has Officially Begun!

The wait is over — AMV Autumnfest 2025 has just kicked off with Yana Dakota lighting up the morning at the AMV Morning Breakfast Show!

Come join the celebration as Yana spreads her signature energy and music to mark the Opening of Autumnfest!

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

Let’s welcome the season together — full of music, fun, and fall magic across the grid!

Check the AMV Autumnfest 2025 Happening at: https://alternatemetaverse.com/main/index.php?ccat=h