[Opensim-users] are there better landscaping tools?

[Serendipity Seraph]

On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Teravus Ovares wrote:

> I generally don't have an issue in 1x viewers when working with terrain.  I have not tried doing a complex terrain setup with 2x viewers yet.

This is a 1x viewer issue, I should have mentioned.  Also I am working in the middle of the root region of a 3x3 mega-region.  I have seen it on every viewer when attempting to do this task in OpenSim (mainly diva distributions).  Have you tried this type of task?  

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> The only thing that I've found is be careful around the edges.    The edges can sometimes cause an edge case that makes the terrain spiky.
> 

I presume you mean edge of region?  

> There's also the L3DT and TerraGen if you save with the right settings. (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Using_L3DT)

Can that handle megaregions?  Will play with it and find out.  Thanks for the tip.

- seren

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> -Teravus
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Serendipity Seraph <sseraph at me.com> wrote:
> I am on 0.7.0.2 but have seen similar behavior for several releases.  The standard landscaping tools seem really rough.  For instance, attempting to lower a small are I selected caused adjacent areas to go all spiky.  Applying flat to them seemed to make the ground do this weird bubbly dance. I have tried various strength and size settings to little avail.  What I am trying to do is to create a pretty much round 30 m or so pool on the land.  The edges don't have to be perfect as I have a set of round marble surrounding steps.  Pretty when it works.  It isn't so bad to do this in SL.   But I am having a devil of a time getting the landscaping just right in OpenSim.   Are there better brushes or some tricks of the trade short of building a terrain map in Photoshop or something?    I also use a Space Navigator in my setup.  Don't know if that would make landscaping act worse or not.  Doesn't seem to make much difference when I turn it off.
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> - seren
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