The Terrain Factory is where we design, create, and sell *.RAW Files depicting Second Life representations of various terrain features found in the real world and in our imagination.
Why Buy a Terrain File?
Land in Second Life is stored as a grid of height values. The grid has a resolution of 1 meter in each direction, resulting in 256x256 grid points (0 to 255) per Simulator. It can be modified with the built-in terraforming tools. However manually terraforming an entire sim can be a tedious, even daunting herculean task which could take ages of monotonous, repetitive work and countless hours of frustration because of the difficulty in estimating overall shape of the sim from a distance.
The solution is in *.RAW files. If you pull down the World, Region/Estate in the menu, and click on the terrain tab, you'd find that there's an option to UPLOAD a *.RAW file. What exactly is a RAW file? It is simply a texture that contains information about the height of the 256x256 points in a sim's grid, stored as a 13-channel texture. It also holds information about the default water level and teleport points, and other misc. items.
What we do is design the terrain outside of Second Life, using professional 3D Mesh Editing tools, using various real world sources (if the terrain is modelled from a real world location), then we extract the grayscale contour image of the mesh we made, and compile it into a .RAW file. This file is then ready to be uploaded into Second Life using the Region/Estate menu item mentioned earlier.
Our terrains are intially created, edited and tweaked in 3D Programs such as Corel Bryce and 3D Studio MAX, and thus we have absolute control of the entire sim's shape, right down to determining the deep and shallow parts of water areas, steepness of slopes, and the overall smoothness or roughness of particular sections of the sim. Our final *.RAW files are then, tested in Second Life to ensure fidelity of the terrain shape compared to the initial 3D models that we created in the 3D programs.
The result is a breathtaking, well-shaped terrain that comes alive in your SecondLife sim. And what's more, we can tailor it according to your specific needs if needed. Need that hill to be flattened a bit on the top for a club? Need that beach to have less slope for a large beach party? The choice is yours--we simply edit it to suit your needs. Terrains that work for you, in a snap.
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www.avatrian.com/projects/terrainfactory.php
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