[Opensim-users] And terrain textures too!

[Ursula MATOVA]

Hi all,
Of course I have the same problems you all have with terraforming on 
regions edges.
Just for your information, a Mantis has been opened a few weeks ago ( 
2008-12-06 ) on this point, as a "feature request".
Regards,
Ursula.

http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=2765


John Hopkin a écrit :
> 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?
>