Luna Lunaria^✦ @lunalunaria

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

Medieval decor, and castles in particular, were not only my first love in virtual worlds, but also my first builds. They've come a long way since my first feeble attempts, and I now have a nice variety of tapestries, torches, thrones, seating, heraldry, swords, and Arthurian lore to choose from at all my regions.

You can find my work at these locations:

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

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

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

These are some of the bridges I created that are spread out as connecting points between the various display areas. All are modify and copy. Along with others, these four bridges are available at Lunaria Emporium on Wolf Territories Grid. Only the top two are available at my Kitely store, and none have yet been added to the Kitely Market, but eventually will be as soon as I get off my keester and get busy.

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

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

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

These are some of the bridges I created that are spread out as connecting points between the various display areas. All are modify and copy. All four bridges are available at Lunaria Emporium on Wolf Territories Grid, only the top two are available at my Kitely store, and none have yet been added to the Kitely Market, but eventually will be as soon as I get off my keester and get busy.

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

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

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

I have a nice collection of full perm building components you can use in your builds as well. The full perms are intended for use as part of a larger commercial build, and cannot be sold, given away, or placed in a freebie store as is.

You can find these in the central store rotunda on Lunaria Emporium at both Wolf Territories Grid and Kitely Grid:

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

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

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

I'm on multiple grids on Opensim, mainly to have options if one closes. Each has it's charm, but I wanted my main regions to be on Wolf Territories Grid, simply because the owner Lone Wolf has done an unbelievable job with the grid in so many ways. Here is a recent video on some of the upgrades he's done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5h-JHgtWu0

Many of you know I have a lot of statues in my store, but I didn't set out originally to offer them. A few years ago I wanted one for a build I was doing at the time and found one on the Kitely Market. Wanting to add materials, I replaced the base texture with a marble and realized that all that was left was an amorphous blob that barely resembled the original statue. So I decided to see if there was a better way. The resulting workflow is pictured. I start out with real world scans of famous statues (such as Hebe pictured) that are readily available, and load it into Blender. Since it had 2 million faces, I needed to reduce the complexity to 80,000 faces or less to be able to upload it inworld but still have detail for those who are unable to use higher graphics. You can see the two models side-by-side in Blender. At that point I bake the normals to replace a lot of the details that were lost without increasing the complexity, then upload the less complex model and the new normalmap into opensim. The final photo is the result.

You can see all my statues on my store regions:

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

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

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

"Listen...perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state of being not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard it completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, not attached to any person, place, or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.

Here is the memory of what you are.

You know the ancient song, and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love you still sing."