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<div> Thank you for your response! I appreciate the information and I'll give that a try for the time being. It's always a good idea to try new tools. As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Lúthien Athariel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luthien.athariel@gmail.com">luthien.athariel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">hi Len,<br><br>I have been having some problems there too - mostly near the seams where regions meet. I've understood that the terraforming tools have a bit of a problem dealing with those - and I discovered that a good way to get flat land is to first select an area, choose "flatten land", and click the "Apply to Selection" (or whatever the exact name is) button a couple of times .. that usually works fine.<br>
<br>For larger and more complex edits, the terraforming tools are not too wel suited in my opinion. What I do is to export the terrain file(s) as a .R32 file: if you install the terrain-tools there is a very convenient tool that lets you export either the whole thing, or a subset of regions. You can then edit them in (the free version of) L3DT: import as height map, and use the 3D terrain editor in there. You have to enter the total X and Y pixels for your terrain (256 per region) and a value for the height (I use 1.5, which comes down to approximately the same visual size as it renders in opensim) - although that height setting is only important for the rendering in L3DT itself. <br>
<br>Within L3DT there is a number of interesting terraforming tools like avalanches (which creates a very realistic erosion effect), cliffs, a bulldozer with which you can create things like rivers, canals or dykes, several smoothing options etcetera. Export the height map again as a .R32 file, and import again in opensim with the terrain-tools function. <br>
The finer details that L3DT produces, however, seem not to render in OpenSim - probably because the terrain is not resolved to that level of detail. But some sculpted prim - built boulders and rocks can take care of that. <br>
<br>It works pretty good, I have used this route a lot. <br><br>BTW - L3DT is windows only - but I found that it works like a charm under Crossover in OSX (and thus, probably in linux as well)<br><br>- luthien<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/27 Len Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lenwbrown@gmail.com" target="_blank">lenwbrown@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="h5">Hello everyone,<br><br> I hope my question is in the right place... I have been on SL for a few years now and am very comfortable with building and terraforming. I'm just wondering what the state of development is with terraforming in OpenSim.<br>
<br> I know that in SL when I use the "flatten" preference, the land beneath my mouse flattens perfectly regardless of where I move the mouse unless the land is baked along an incline.<br><br> In OpenSim the flatten command is very loose, and there is no way to get perfectly flat land aside from entering "terrain fill 21" or such to flatten the entire region.<br>
<br> I've been hoping there would be some improvement in the terraforming tools over the last few revisions but they seem to have remained stagnant.<br><br> Otherwise I have been very happily running 25 regions on my home server for the last few months and have really been pleased with all the other improvements that have come along.<br>
<br>Thanks for input!<br><br>- Len W. Brown<br><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de" target="_blank">Opensim-users@lists.berlios.de</a><br>
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