Friends-Grid News

Posted By: Safine Mahoe
Made at Aug 06 2025 10:27AM
Edited Aug 06 2025 10:27AM

Grid has been upgraded to Opensim 9.3 and planned maintenance

The last two days our tech team has  upgraded  Friends grid to  Opensim version 9.3.    The biggest difference you may notice is that Friends grid is now PBR enabled.   This allows for more realistic lighting and rendering effects in the virtual world.   Reflection probes or mirrors  can now show your reflection.  YOu may need a  current verion of firestorm to see this.    Personally, I am not a PBR fan, but I know many are, so it is  now here for you!

There are many more technical changes with this upgrade,  all aimed at making your virtual life  very smooth and seamless.

Please note, in the next few weeks I will be  giving you all a one week notice for  a planned 24 hour shut down.   During this time we will be switching to  Object Storage to manage and back up our assets.  This is the same asset management system that Wolf Grid  uses.   This system will help us run faster and smoother while providing state of the art security.     

Remember, when you get my notice about the 24 hour shut down, it is not because something is broken.   We are upgrading things in a very major way!