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Happy weekend all...
Free talented bony duo interpreting their best dramatic
and obsessive duet for Conga and Trombone
You'll find them at the Alchemy Island, near the hot air pumpkin ride
If you like wandering, Novale has a network of trails
Rez a horse and do not hesitate to explore beyond trails
and go where no one has gone before
We have seen the light and we're on a mission from God! See you there
Abundant harvest at Novale's farm
Sculpted pieces of snow for the Seasons Greetings @ avirtualworld.org:8002/Trails
 | OpenSimUser: Thank you Bobsolo, i finally made it there to get it. 12 days ago |
Ohh, I think even these excellent herbs can't stop your bad breath
The new Dark Castle of Novale
For Aley Rai's fans and collectionners
We've meshed the air pump, now available with animations and sounds
Everyone can copy _ It is at Cap'N Kelso Underwater Tour Kiosk
Novale's summer 2021 is now accessible to all hypergrid visitors.
Weather today is ideal for windsurfing - Enjoy!
A Witch Cactus : a kind of curiosity treasures you can find at Novale Halloween Curiosities Shoppe.
Community Virtual Library - Hypergrid communityvirtuallibrary.org
Real librarianship in virtual worlds
It's that time again! LFGrid's Halloween Island is up and ready for visitors! We will be adding a few haunted attractions throughout the month!!
If the instructions for the OSW beacons tell you to make the beacon uncopyable, then PLEASE DO SO!
Yes, it's an inconvenient extra step.
Yes, it's more convenient to leave it as-is.
Yes, you may pride yourself in enabling your visitors to copy every last thing from your sim.
Yes, it does work as desired even if it can be copied...
...until someone actually copies the beacon and then puts it on their own sim, not even knowing what it is. And as they don't know what it is, and as the beacon did not come with instructions (they copied the bare beacon and not the box with the beacon and the instructions), they leave it as-is. They do NOT change or remove the beacon key. Why should they? Nothing tells them to do that.
All of a sudden, the entry for your own precious sim here on OSW will switch between your actual sim and that other sim run by the person who took your beacon with your beacon key and dropped it on their own sim. And half the time, the people who want to visit your sim will instead land on that other sim.
Now you may wonder if there are OpenSim users who don't know that the website OpenSimWorld exists. Yes, there are such people. It's mostly newbies, but there seem to be enough people who start building sims of their own while still counting as newbies. And I dare say there are enough seasoned OpenSim users who still don't know that OpenSimWorld exists.
And those who don't know that OpenSimWorld exists don't know either what this beacon is and what it's good for. Actually, just a few weeks ago, I had to explain to someone who has been in OpenSim for much much longer than myself what the beacon is and what it does.
I myself didn't know right away what the OSW beacon is and does when I started last year. For me, the OSW beacon was nothing more than a nifty Hypergrid teleporter that some sim owners were kind enough to install on their sims. In fact, apart from catching the occasional landmark, the OSW beacon was the only way for me to travel the Hypergrid.
I did NOT know about the website behind the beacon. Nor did I know that the primary task for the beacon is to connect in-world locations to the website.
Had I started to build my own sim about a month into my OpenSim usership, and had I found an OSW beacon that I could (and still shouldn't be able to) copy, I would have taken it and put it on my own sim as it was, someone else's beacon key in it and all. I wouldn't even have known that beacon keys exist.
To cut a long story short: If you let people copy your beacon, people WILL copy your beacon. With no instructions. They WILL NOT know what it really is. They WILL NOT know there's also a box with it inside plus instructions, much less where to get it. And they WILL misuse the beacon. And the entry for your sim here on OpenSimWorld WILL malfunction.
And if you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO make the beacon available to everyone, then at least put the original box next to it. Not somewhere else on the sim, but right next to the actual beacon so that every last dummy will find it. And if you think the box looks terrible where the beacon is, then put the beacon itself somewhere where the box would look better.
Yes, it's more convenient to leave it as-is.
Yes, you may pride yourself in enabling your visitors to copy every last thing from your sim.
Yes, it does work as desired even if it can be copied...
...until someone actually copies the beacon and then puts it on their own sim, not even knowing what it is. And as they don't know what it is, and as the beacon did not come with instructions (they copied the bare beacon and not the box with the beacon and the instructions), they leave it as-is. They do NOT change or remove the beacon key. Why should they? Nothing tells them to do that.
All of a sudden, the entry for your own precious sim here on OSW will switch between your actual sim and that other sim run by the person who took your beacon with your beacon key and dropped it on their own sim. And half the time, the people who want to visit your sim will instead land on that other sim.
Now you may wonder if there are OpenSim users who don't know that the website OpenSimWorld exists. Yes, there are such people. It's mostly newbies, but there seem to be enough people who start building sims of their own while still counting as newbies. And I dare say there are enough seasoned OpenSim users who still don't know that OpenSimWorld exists.
And those who don't know that OpenSimWorld exists don't know either what this beacon is and what it's good for. Actually, just a few weeks ago, I had to explain to someone who has been in OpenSim for much much longer than myself what the beacon is and what it does.
I myself didn't know right away what the OSW beacon is and does when I started last year. For me, the OSW beacon was nothing more than a nifty Hypergrid teleporter that some sim owners were kind enough to install on their sims. In fact, apart from catching the occasional landmark, the OSW beacon was the only way for me to travel the Hypergrid.
I did NOT know about the website behind the beacon. Nor did I know that the primary task for the beacon is to connect in-world locations to the website.
Had I started to build my own sim about a month into my OpenSim usership, and had I found an OSW beacon that I could (and still shouldn't be able to) copy, I would have taken it and put it on my own sim as it was, someone else's beacon key in it and all. I wouldn't even have known that beacon keys exist.
To cut a long story short: If you let people copy your beacon, people WILL copy your beacon. With no instructions. They WILL NOT know what it really is. They WILL NOT know there's also a box with it inside plus instructions, much less where to get it. And they WILL misuse the beacon. And the entry for your sim here on OpenSimWorld WILL malfunction.
And if you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO make the beacon available to everyone, then at least put the original box next to it. Not somewhere else on the sim, but right next to the actual beacon so that every last dummy will find it. And if you think the box looks terrible where the beacon is, then put the beacon itself somewhere where the box would look better.
Hot Air 'Pumpkin' ride
Experience a close to real life hot air balloon ride
i.e. you control the altitude with heat
while the Sim wind controls the direction
Nos amis de Virtualdream grid venus découvrir les activités estivales.
Our frends from VD grid at campfire, just before exploring Novale's coastal area
I have a Christmas section in the shop that's there year round. I add a little each season. There are several snow globes and I also included plain versions that can be used year round. There's even a person sized one you can dance in...or just have the npc's dance for you :)
A view over the Valley of the Conservatories Ancient Easters where the molds of Easter Chocolate Characters are preserved.
Beware...when approaching the Haunted Valley (Vallée hantée)
Autumn has arrived at Novale and more than half of the region
is celebrating Halloween - welcome to scary eerie
It's not too late to participate in OSFest 2024 where free land is available for exhibits and stores. The festival runs from Oct 4-20, 2024 but we have a load test party on Sept 20, 2024 from 10am to 1 pm. Staff will be on hand as Rogue and Thalion rock the house. Join us!
| | OSFest: Some of the exhibits and stores surround large pool water. Some are on the region border of water. Some surround an inland lake. If you need navigable water we can accommodate you. Staff will be at th... 2 months ago |
Represent OpenSim in the Metaverse Standards Forum?
This may just be my opinion, but I believe that OpenSim should be represented in the Metaverse Standards Forum (https://metaverse-standards.org/) in some way.
If you're wondering what the MSF is: They try to develop and design from scratch what we've already had for 15 years as OpenSim and for 14 years as the Hypergrid.
For one, I guess nobody there even knows that OpenSim exists, not as a platform, not as several thousand virtual worlds. Even Intel may have forgotten their early engagement in OpenSim.
Besides, they could learn from OpenSim what they're bound to learn from the mistakes they'll make. And they could see what OpenSim has done right that they should do, too.
It's just a pity, I guess, that there's nobody who's able and willing to represent the OpenSim ecosystem as a whole.
(By the way, Linden Lab isn't a member either.)
If you're wondering what the MSF is: They try to develop and design from scratch what we've already had for 15 years as OpenSim and for 14 years as the Hypergrid.
For one, I guess nobody there even knows that OpenSim exists, not as a platform, not as several thousand virtual worlds. Even Intel may have forgotten their early engagement in OpenSim.
Besides, they could learn from OpenSim what they're bound to learn from the mistakes they'll make. And they could see what OpenSim has done right that they should do, too.
It's just a pity, I guess, that there's nobody who's able and willing to represent the OpenSim ecosystem as a whole.
(By the way, Linden Lab isn't a member either.)
Travels in Orphalese
Do you like this little Pumpkin Avatar?
This cute funny one is now boxed and available
for free at Novale's Halloween Curiosity Shoppe
The Castle Library of Novale :
A great place to relax while listening to medieval classics
One of the new boat tours in Autumn 2021
This ride begins at the dock of Foggy Island, facing the Castle
Destination : Rest in Peace graveyard
As the days get shorter, hummingbirds are heading south
Our little one has dressed for Halloween and
Enjoys dark flowers nectar before his departure
Visit the Metta Cafe and turn on stream to enjoy a unique selection of music from Africa, India, Hungary and beyond.
Cap'N' Kelso Underwater tour
Where your most fantastic diving experience begins!
Easy to reach: a dedicated Teleporter is at landing
Novale's summer 2021 is now open, happy solstice everyone!
Enjoying Spring using the butterfly ride
A ride from Ancient Easters valley to the Sugar Shack
We keep adding new Halloween inspired objects at Novale new Halloween Curisities Shoppe. Here something essential in those creepy times : A nightmare catcher
Littlefield Grid's Annual Halloween Island!! Many haunted attractions, rides, and gifts!! Updated regularly! Open until November 1st 2023!
Costume Party and Halloween Dance Halloween - Monday October 31st 2023 - 8pm PST.
Live DJ Walter Balazic, drinking, dancing, and Free Gifts!!
lfgrid.com:8002:Halloween Island
Costume Party and Halloween Dance Halloween - Monday October 31st 2023 - 8pm PST.
Live DJ Walter Balazic, drinking, dancing, and Free Gifts!!
lfgrid.com:8002:Halloween Island
| | NineZero: This is a fun trip. I bobbed for apples. I went through the corn maze. I survived being lost in a cave. I danced with monsters. A corpse attacked me. And I'm not done yet. 1 years ago |
Have my SHOUTcast stream up again. http://142.44.178.114:7778 … Corbin Keep, Lorrie Morgan, The Cranberries, Patricia O'Callaghan, Chandelle Rimmer, Mumford & Sons, Rachel Platten and Meghan Trainor, then Brandi Carlile. (and after her the playlist restarts) … Just finished exporting the renewed Let's Encrypt Cert for the region again.
| | YichardMuni: The cranberries :-) 2 years ago |
