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Diamond Reflections Region

Posted on March 30, 2020
/Under opensim, Region Showcase
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Diamond Reflections region on the Fire And Ice Opensim Grid The Diamond Reflections region is the vision and creation of two lovers. Every aspect is us building our dream and life together. Full of romantic areas, this sim is something special. If you don't like reading there is a video…continue reading →

Free regions for charitable organisations

Posted on March 21, 2020
/Under Newbies, opensim, Tutorials
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Sample of how virtual gatherings might look 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…continue reading →

Free web pages for landowners.

Posted on February 25, 2020
/Under land, offers, opensim
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The Fire and Ice Grid are offering free web pages for landowners in the form of wiki pages. Powered by MediaWiki (the same system as Wikipedia) the system has a proven track record. The popularity of Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites means there is a lot of support and guidance…continue reading →

Custom Map Images Now available

Posted on February 16, 2020
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Samples from our custom map tiles 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…continue reading →

Opensim version upgrade completed.

Posted on February 2, 2020
/Under Backups, opensim, Testing
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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 →

Top 20% in popularity

Posted on January 30, 2020
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In our first month, we have risen into the top 20% in a list of the most popular hypergrid enabled Opensim grids. Most Popular Hypergrids List https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/statistics/most-popular-hypergrid-worlds/continue reading →

Scheduled Down Time

Posted on January 29, 2020
/Under Backups, Maintenance, opensim, Testing
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This coming Sunday (2nd Feb) around noon GMT (4am pst or 01:00 CET) I will be upgrading us from OS 0.910 to 0.911 If all goes to plan this should take no more than 30 mins. If it doesn't go to plan and I have to start restoring things to…continue reading →

Free Land For A Club

Posted on January 26, 2020
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The Fire and Ice grid are offering a free sim on a first come first served basis to a person or group that wishes to make and run a club. The region can be of any size and will remain free so long as you actively run and promote events…continue reading →

Quick Start Guide

Posted on January 23, 2020
/Under FireStorm Viewer, Newbies, opensim, Tutorials
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https://youtu.be/vzwmibjwBcQ The guide starts on our website pointing to the links required to create an account and set up the viewer. These items are covered in more detail on other videos so are covered quickly. Following this, it moves onto what happens as you load your avatar in the 3D…continue reading →

Firestorm BOM viewer.

Posted on January 17, 2020
/Under Bakes On Mesh, Firestorm, FireStorm Viewer, opensim, Testing
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Firestorm Viewer with bakes on mesh in https://www.firestormviewer.org/OSFire https://fireandicegrid.netAnd Ice Grid Firestorm with Bakes On Mesh (BOM) is now available to Fire and Ice Grid residents wanting to help with testing. This is a version compiled by the grid, not an official Firestorm release. I have been using these viewers…continue reading →