Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE 5.3
Screen grab from OpenSim showing the About Land/Options menu for securing terraforming rights.
It's very important to turn off the terraforming option for other users (see circled box on menu image), in order to
preserve your terrain.
1. On the top line of the open Build menu, you will see ive icons; the last one is a tiny bulldozer. That
should be highlighted, indicating that you have activated the Land Tools.
2. Below that, it says “Click and Drag to Select Land.” What this means is that when you pick the radio
button next to Select Land on the list, you can select portions of the terrain to terraform.
Using this option is like selecting a mask for creating a stencil effect. Just as your brush will only
paint the areas open in a stencil mask, the selected area on the terrain will be the only part affected
by the Land Tools (e.g., latten, raise, lower, etc.). When your terraform work is done on the selected
terrain, you can use the smooth button to blend into the adjacent land.
3. Below the Select Land button are the six land editors: Flatten, Raise, Lower, Smooth, Roughen, and
Revert. With the exception of Revert, the names clearly describe the effect each editor will have on
your terrain.
Note:
Revert is a special editing tool, and it is tied in to one of the features available to you if you
are the owner of the region or estate. In the top bar, under the World tab, there is Region Details,
which will bring up the Region/Estate menu. On that menu, under the Terrain tab near the bottom,
is the Bake Terrain button. By “baking” the terrain, you set the terraforming heights on the region
as a baseline coniguration. If you want to experiment with new changes in your terrain and then
return to the baked coniguration, you can do that by using the Revert tool.
4. Back in the Land Editing menu, next to the Edit tools are slider bars for your bulldozer. The Size
button on the slider affects the size of the patch moved by the bulldozer to let you work in large
