Grid backups and oar files

How many times has the OpenSim community found out too late that their grid has no backups or that their operator doesn’t have the skill to deploy them? Something goes wrong, and the grid closes, leaving customers with nothing. Events like this should never be; unfortunately, the opposite has been Continue Reading

Creating Mega Prims at The Fire and Ice Grid

Today’s blog is all about creating mega prims at the Fire And Ice Grid. I was recently asked by Wicked Way from the Party Destination Grid for some help. She wanted to bring mega prims from Second Life into her opensimulator grid. My immediate answer what “just create them in Continue Reading

Free regions for charitable organisations

The Fire and Ice Grid announce free regions for charitable organisations. Today the Fire and Ice grid hosted a virtual coffee morning on behalf of the York LGBT Forum. Under normal circumstances, The York LGBT Forum hold them in the physical world. Coronavirus restrictions mean that currently, that is not Continue Reading

Custom Map Images Now available

Region owners can now customise the map image sim on the world map. Custom map images have been available in Opensimulator for a long time but are less frequently used than auto-generated images. Custom map tiles allow you to make much more professional, and easily recognisable images on the world Continue Reading

Opensim version upgrade completed.

The Fire And Ice Grid are pleased to announce we have completed our opensim version upgrade. The opensim version upgrade to 0.911 forms part of our ongoing commitment to keep up with opensimulator developments. As with all our opensim version upgrades, a full backup (independent of our regular daily backups) Continue Reading