[Opensim-users] And terrain textures too! (was: Region edge terraforming problem)

[John Hopkin]

Ai Austin wrote:

>At 11:00 03/02/2009, Michael Huntington <mellomike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Has anyone else had problems terraforming on the edge of a region when it's
>>connected to another region? it seems the terraforming tools have a problem
>>smoothing out the edges between two regions..... not only is there some lag
>>but heights from terraforming the two regions become completely off.
>
>Yes I have.   This is how I got it to work for me. Make sure you have 
>your avatar over the region you are adjusting, and only adjust one 
>side  to balance them up.  Then move your avatar to the other side 
>region and dio the same.  I agree that smoothing over the edges of 
>sims would be nice though, a sits difficult to get right otherwise.  Ai

I've found it best to avoid using the "flatten" and "smooth" tools
near region boundaries, and just rely on "raise" and "lower" to adjust
terrain height.  You don't get the nice flat surfaces, of course, but
at least you can avoid having a visible join where the heights differ.

One problem I have that's somewhat related is in the textures on
boundaries.  If a region has different terrain texture heights in,
say, the west and the east, then the border where the east side meets
the next-door region seems to inherit some of the texture
characteristics of the west.

To give a concrete example, one of our regions is grass down to a low
level on the east and a higher level on the west (both north and south
quadrants adjusted for each side) where the region meets the ocean.
This gives us pure grass inland, but sand where the "beach" is.
However, along the eastern border, a land border with the next-door
region, there's a roughly 1m-wide strip of pure sand, which looks very
ugly.  We've not been able to get rid of that strip, and don't
particularly want to build on it.

Anyone any ideas on this one?
-- 
John Hopkin