Luna Lunaria @lunalunaria

Discord at ᒪᑌᑎᗩ ᒪᑌᑎᗩᖇIᗩ, Wolf Territories Grid, Kitely, Utopia Skye, Digiworldz, and OSGrid Offline

Spiritual Seeker, Science Fantasy Writer, Creator in virtual worlds


I just caught up with the craziness about Lone stealing a floor from Marianna. Looks like she saw my post yesterday about our first monthly social with a picture of my Lotus Club on Luxor. it has a big circular dance floor with a blue arcane texture. I guess she assumed Lone stole that idea the day before yesterday's event and added to his Social region (which doesn't exist). That picture was from my Gala 6 months ago at the Lotus Club and which I built on Luxor a year ago. I have that same exact texture on one of my hypergates at Luxor. I have used that texture for years. I love arcane textures, especially on floors and ceilings - I have them on a floor in Castle Ceridwen and in my main store in the Magic and Mysteries room.

Fred Beckhusen, aka Ferd Frederi: I'm just gonna drop this link here. The above image is from dreamstime.com, the watermarked one is not not useable in any form according to their license. A single use license is normally $25.00... 30 days ago
My passion is building large architectural structures and regions for commercial, spiritual, and entertainment purposes, and doing them with highly detailed surfaces and textures. While I am not primarily in the business of making smaller items, in the process of making a venue I inevitably end up adding furniture, lighting, and accessories that match the style. A lot of these I make myself, but some, like this beautiful Art Deco Lamp, which will be part of my new OSFest build, I source from 3D modeling sites.

The first photo is of an original lamp from the 1920s, currently available on Etsy for about $300 usd. The second is the 3D model by Katmit developed for 3D printers. I purchased it on Renderhub for $12 and it came with an Extended Use license. After a lot of work with faces and UV maps I was finally able to get Firestorm to let my version upload, which is the last pic. I was meh about the plain globe, so I replaced that with something more interesting and added my light script. This little project took a lot more time and effort than I planned for, but I'll spend many happy moments sitting at the bar just looking at this lovely piece of art that began life a hundred years ago.

You will be able to see my full Art Deco venue at OSFest this September on the sponsor region.

Jasminecliodhna: lovely as always luna love your places 8 months ago

Almost ready


Lone Wolf: The one at Wolf Territories Grid is now at grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Wolf Territories Colorado We have our first shows there Sunday. 2 years ago
Just to be clear, I have always pursued my own ideas in my work and have never been interested in replicating what others have done. Because of that my work is easily identifiable wherever it is on the hypergrid. So when I heard that I had stolen someone else's idea for a dance floor I laughed. Pictured above is an event at my Aeroclub on July 13th, 2018 on Bill Blight's old grid (OpensimLife), now gone since he retired. I was using arcane textures on dance floors even back then. When I built the Lotus Club early last year on Luxor I created a similar dance floor because that's what I liked. And no, it would never bother me that someone else got a similar idea on their own. I remember when Essensual bought my Grand Ballroom then invited me over to see it. She had completely remodeled it into a gorgeous Art Deco style. I could still see my objects and textures but I loved how she creatively rearranged everything and added in some of her own textures. That's the way it should be in Opensim.

Nico Kalani: I'm going to sue the Munchkins for putting an occult symbol on their floor. :) https://tinyurl.com/4nkcj4tk 29 days ago

There's no way to describe the immense scale at Luxor. It has to be experienced.


Joe Builder: Land of the Giants :) 9 months ago

Thirza Ember: So true... although waiting at the yellow can get you into trouble in some places! 1 years ago
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

Jupiter Rowland: @Arielle: When I say "OpenSim devs", I DO mean those who created OpenSim, the source code and everything. I also said that there are people who believe that these slogans have always been an official... 12 months ago

One of Thirza Embers' blogs about my favorite virtual artist:

https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/08/cherry-manga-1-early...


Cherry Manga: Ohhh thank you dear Luna! 2 years ago
Just finished a complete remodel of the store lobby at the Emporium and placed several new Art Deco pieces out for sale, including statues, a seating group, and a full bar. Pictured above is Bobby, a robot linked to chatgpt. In local chat, say his name followed by your question. He is very well-versed on Wolf Territories grid since Lone Wolf scripted him. Also, don't forget to grab your free copy of the garden pool in the center of the lobby.

I loved building this theater with Bill Blight on his old grid. We watched so many movies there. It's only a memory now. Maybe I'll rebuild this as a stage venue :-)


Star Ravenhurst: I would love to have that! I miss movie nights on Bill's grid. Hanging out with everyone is some of my best memories. Loved the Writer's group too. I have been thinking of trying to start a writer's g... 1 years ago

I have a nice little collection of medieval fantasy items available inside the Main Store


Luna Lunaria: I am deeply humbled by everyone's kind comments and very appreciative 8 months ago

Doing my part for Star Wars Day


KrisTina: I find your lack of a purple lightsaber disturbing! Samual Jackson wouldn't be pleased. 11 months ago
Another look I like. Ruth2 RC3 mesh body with my own hair, skin, and shape as in the earlier post. Clothes and shoes from the Kitely Market. Blouse is by Rune, leather pants are by Dadiellas, and my favorite boots came from Dollys, which has since closed due to constant fighting with the never buy in opensim crowd. She got tired of it and left opensim, closing all her stores.

I just wanted to party in opensim, hang out with friends, and make nice stuff that I could sell to pay for my land. I never wanted this fight but it came to my door anyway. If there are those who want give away a bunch of stuff stolen from SL then that's their decision, I'm not going to call them out over it - that's a bigger question for people far more important than I am in Opensim to grapple with. But I'm not going to let anyone dictate what I can and can't do with my own creations.

Jupiter Rowland: By the way: Kodama avatar. When? 2 years ago

Lone Wolf: I love my Christmas Tree I got from there. 4 months ago

Chillin at Luxor


ToyBoy: Nicely build! 6 months ago

MidnightRain Glas: Thank you for sharing this. 1 years ago

Thirza Ember: Grief is the price we pay for love. 2 years ago

Jerralyn Franzic: Worth a visit, I love it... I LOOK SO TINY THERE, I'm not worthy LOL :) 2 years ago

Free at Lunaria Emporium


IndigoQueen King: Perfect for my Angels and Ascended Masters Area!! Thank you Luna!! 9 days ago
The first ever Monthly Social for Wolf Territories Grid is today at 11 am grid time (pst) at Luxor in the Lotus Club, and teleport routing will drop you right there. This is a great way to meet residents on the grid and get to know one another and share stories. Greedy tables are set up courtesy of GMInteractive and there's a dance floor as well.

IndigoQueen King will be our DJ for the event which will last 1 1/2-2 hours but everyone can stay as long as you like. Voice will be on for those who prefer. The Luxor region will also be open for those who want to explore together - tour boats are available in multiple locations and hold up to 4 people including the driver. The event is listed on our WT website here: https://www.wolf-grid.com/ under the Events tab, and in the Destination Guide in world.

Here's the limo: hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Luxor/539/534/97
HG Address is grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

Lone Wolf: Amazing Social. I had such a great time! 1 month ago
This is the Castle display area at Lunaria Emporium where you can walk through them all. My first attempt at building in SecondLife 15 years ago was a castle and I never looked back. There three available for purchase in different styles and they all have multiple hidden chambers and passages to discover:

The Ceridwen castle, done in a fantasy/fairytale style in a silver and amethyst color palette with a special hidden room below

The Caerwyn Fortress complex, which is a massive, detailed fortress in the Norman / Celtic tradition with realistic 13th century textures. The fortress was inspired by the remains of Harlech Castle located in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales

The Caerwyn Keep, designed with a smaller footprint in mind

A medieval covered stone bridge to match

There's also a partially finished Camelot Keep that I hope to get back to someday, but it is not currently available. All the castles are available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?cat=50600&store=13957705 and can be delivered directly to your inventory on your grid.

If you don't mind hypergridding, all venues are 20% off Kitely Market prices if you get them directly from my main store.

Gabriel_Solstician: Highly detailed buildings - Luna’s right, well worth visiting first, you won’t be disappointed! ☺️ 2 months ago
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

On this Winter Solstice, may each of you have beautiful new beginnings and holidays filled with light and love

Luna has a dark side


CherylFurse: wow this looks great realistic. Well done! I love it when OS members want to create their sim and Avi as realistic as possible how far it could be possible in OS. Then there is a chance to attract ot... 2 years ago

Chillin at Luxor

Some of tonight's work at Luxor

HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor

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
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

Lone Wolf: this is an INCREDIBLE build folks! Do come and check it out. 11 months ago
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

KrisTina: Loving the purple Luna, Flealizer portal? lol 1 years ago
I was so honored to be a featured destination for the HG Safari group this week ? You can read the blog by @Thirza Ember here:

https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/11/moon-scape.html

We also visited Weltraumbahnhof, a great Opensim Hub built by Nasti and Rudy Bakerly on Soul Grid. You can read about it here:

https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/11/action-station.html
In addition to creating things in Opensim, my other passion is a series of novels I'm working on. Here is an excerpt from one of those books titled Eos Renascent:

"There is only one moment in all of time that matters."

"And which one is that?" Kaia asked, looking into her glowing yet serene face.

"The moment of Renascence, when you remember and time vanishes, with all that it created.”

Kaia looked away, disturbed. “I thought you were here to help me prevent that from happening.”

“That is not my purpose, for that moment is inevitable and it is not within my power to prevent it. You can only hold it at bay and only for so long. The entire universe yearns for its coming and collectively holds its breath in anticipation.”

“Then why am I here? I don’t understand,” Kaia asked, holding her face in her hands.

“Nothing is required of you but your acceptance,” she replied, stroking Kaia’s long, white hair.

“But I love them,” she sobbed, “I love them all!”

“Then cherish those present moments and the love held within them, for only Love transcends time,” she answered quietly, holding Kaia close. “You cannot understand how much you are loved, for there is no parallel in your experience to help you understand it. There is nothing on Eos to compare it to, or that even faintly resembles it. Every act of love on your part will live on, and not one little smile you gave or willingness to overlook even the tiniest mistake will be lost to you."

-from Eos Renascent

Luna Lunaria: here is my Facebook writer's page for those interested. It has links to read the first few chapters: https://www.facebook.com/lunalunaria1 1 years ago
Exploring Karima Hoisan's beautiful galleries at AI Dreams in Art in Kitely. You can reach her region here: grid.kitely.com:8002:AI Dreams in Art

The following is one of her blog posts:

https://karimahoisan.com/2022/09/04/ai-dreams-in-art-is-he...

A tidbit from the Luxor build. This hypergate takes you to Lunaria on Mobius Grid


Mistressdalgato: beautiful, is that hypergrid for sale? would something similar as a decretive piece 2 years ago

I love to build massive and mysterious things

HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor


Lone Wolf: When you realise that something awesome is happening on your grid! Great Job Luna. 2 years ago

Steadily working on Luxor

I love supporting artists of every kind on Wolf Territories Grid whenever possible, and it turns out we have a few musicians on the grid that create their own original music.

One of those is BTY London, who is both an RL DJ as well as a musician. With his permission, I just added his newest song 'Dark Waters' to a song sphere at Luxor. You can hear it by the hypergates continuously playing.

Here's the limo to Luxor: hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Luxor/244/516/48. When you arrive at the main landing, click the Hypergate sign to go there.

You can listen to more of BTY London's works here: https://soundcloud.com/btylondon

Here's his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BTYLondon
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