We Thinx Winx

Winxtropia is one of the most fun and cutting grids out there, with a strong bias toward original opensim content, cartoon looks, lots of low poly and low lag and high performance happening here. A short while back, the new sim 'Frutti Music Bar' was featured on this blog - it's all your food groups wrapped into one!

But... even super tech savvy grids can have their  hiccups - one happened just over a week ago. A new update caused havoc to Crescent Melody, the music region you probably remember for its dancing cats.

This situation brought Bloom Peters, owner of Winxtropia, to a decision - she decided to start again. Well, not entirely of course...

Bloom Peters: I kept many backups and lost nothing. All sims are restored and inventory so Winx should work the same as it did.

Thirza Ember: OK, so what's new? Re-friending everyone, I know, possibly LMs will be broken... what else?

Bloom Peters: I wiped the server but had all my oars and iars backed up and have restored it on a fresh install on v5.32 and gained about 60% more performance due to the clean up. The Frutti music bar is so complex i decided to make it the center of the grid as the best showcase. On the street in front of the bar you will find portals that take you to the other regions on the grid.

In the tangerine sunset of the Frutti sim, you'll find the portals - but remember to look both ways when you cross the road! If you have already switched to the PBR friendly viewer you'll find this place a paradise, but even if you're a wait-a-while person like me, the sim gleams and shimmers. 

Bloom has a whole lot of animesh who run around, serve at the restaurant, ride jetskis, and now even swim. And when it comes to style, they just get ever more stylish! Check out Clawdeen, a new member of the animesh family. So what happened to Winxtopia to cause this problem?

Bloom Peters: The latest updates on the system I use added a ton of features that I don't need, such as tracking things on regions and this slowed it down a bit. There is also a bug that causes sims to boot loop after loading oars.  Saving IAR's was broken, making it impossible to backup inventories. All iars would simply be skipped by the software. Without backups is considered game breaking. Also my special settings was being ignored. Things such as timers and frame time needed for the sims to work smoothly were also broken, forcing me to manually edit the opensim.ini to set timers and frame time but this introduced a problem where updating now became impossible since I had to set the ini's to read only to preserve the settings. For my grid, it warranted a rollback.

So there you have it, sometimes a rollback can be the best thing that can happen. Not all progress is linear.  And sometimes a grid may be offline for a bit, and come back better than ever!

HG Address: hop://bloompeters.ddns.net:11052/Frutti%20Music%20Bar/128/238/25