Halloween is slowly dawning on us once again. Actually, it has already arrived in SW City as the SW Ground Zero area has been Halloween-ized. A ghost from Grimmwood has even showed up to tell everyone about the hauntings that go on around that forest around this time every year.

Added a new desktop today. It’s just a simple nimbusian who happened to stumble his way onto your desktop and now he’s lost. Check the downloads page for the 3 different versions.

The October Issue of the SW City Times is at newsstands everywhere. The ‘Times’ is now half-way through the 5th volume, which comes out to a grand total of 54 issues to date. Enjoy!

There’s been quite a building buzz in the last few weeks, so here’s a round-up of what’s been going on.

SW Comit has started a large powerline system that has quickly spread its way through half of Central SW City. He is currently working his way past Town Square Park, which recently got a lot of attention for updates.

A new clock tower has been built north of SW Ground Zero as well as many little details such as new directional signs, walkways and lamp-posts. Basically the whole “northwest quadrant” of Town Square has been renovated. A new fence is also being built around Town Square Park.

Palm Urban has also seen some attention in the last week or so as five different buildings popped up; a few hovercraft dealerships and a bank.

Ferruccio has big plans for Castle Pines. He is planning on connecting his areas into SW City with some massive road projects.

Movie Night was a good time. Around 7 people showed up for the showing of Groundhog Day. The next movie for Movie Night 4 is being selected right now in the forum, so head over there and vote.

The third Movie Night in SW City is tonight at 10pm VRT! This viewing will be out on Norlisk Island, so bring your toque and parka. The screen can be found at AW 2809.87S 5527.52E 0.00a 88!

SW City now has it’s very own themed calendar to place in-world to help detail those builds of yours 😀

Each month, the calendar will automatically update showing off the new weeks, new themed image, the major holidays, and one fake SW City lore holiday. For example October’s event is the Great Submin Brew Fest – celebration of beer and ale 😛

Directions:

Build two tv1.rwx objects, on top of each other.

For the top one: create picture pics.swcity.net/cal/cal2.jpg,texture black mask=black
For the bottom one: create picture pics.swcity.net/cal/cal1.jpg,texture black mask=black

Enjoy!

Well it finally happened, folks. The SR Forum has it’s own board dedicated to Activeworlds after Goober King brought up the need for one. The original plan was to have all AW topics within General Discussion but this new board seems to be the more logical approach. Previously, all AW related topics were held within the SW Community board.

Enjoy the new playground, everyone. ;D

Just thought I’d mention to check out the ground in Alphaworld. Fly up. See anything? No background 😀

Thanks to Strike Rapier for bringing up the clever idea to AWI to use a skybox for a ground object.

Big news for the SW City Times this month. It is time to start the long and painful process of switching over the SW City Times newsstands to the new URL. Luckily, I have written the code for you. The steps are simple.

1. When you come across an old newstand (which can now be indicated and easily spotted by a big flashy animated JPG), head to the newspapers website and copy the new code from the box.

2. Replace the old code with the new. Voila, one stand updated.

Here is the code (also on the newspapers website for future use):
create picture times.swcity.net/times.jpg,sign bcolor=orange “SW City Times”;activate url times.swcity.net/times.jpg target=aw_3d

SW Chris’s video entitled SW City: Revolution is now up for download in the downloads section of the website. If you haven’t already viewed it, I highly recommend downloading it and watching it a few (hundred) times. It is unbelievable.

I also added up September’s SW Pick. More detail on the new Real Estate office will be added onto the “Acquire Property” website soon as well.