How to turn 4 sims into 1 mega sim

Hi all,

Is there anywhere to combine 4 sims (private sims) into 1 giant sim?

Thanks in advance

There isn't. The idea of larger simulators is being batted around in other areas, and I think Andrew's stance on it is basically "Not any time in the foreseeable future".

You can certainly combine them into a single land mass. But each will remain a seperate sim for purposes of prim limits and avatar population limits.

how can you combine them into a single land mass?

place them next to eachother in a square? or long line? doh

Terraforming.

If you own two or more sims, you can access the .raw files for them, to upload and download. It's fairly easy for a sim architect like me to use external tools to create matching .raw files that you can upload, which will make a seamless splice between the sims. Take a look at Amarin Island. It's a collection of 5 sims that I terraformed into a single land mass, using imported .raw files.

Alternatively, it's certainly possible, though more difficult, to use the in-world tools to join the land across the edges of two or more sims. The big problem there is you tend to get some glitches at the seams, in the form of deep, thin trenches or sharp spikes. With effort they can be smoothed out, but it can be a lot of work.

You can, and you can't. You can do as Ceera says, and create a visually seamless land mass across the sim boundaries, but for all intents and purposes, the maximum parcel size is 65,536, or the size of an entire simulator. You cannot join parcels across sim boundaries. So what you have is a visually contiguous land mass, made up of 2 or more -separate- simulators/regions.

I think the in-world tools are great! I certainly don't think that it's much effort to smooth the regions across sim boundaries to create a seamless land mass. I suppose we each have our own ways of doing things!

It depends a lot on what is at the seam to begin with. If both sides are pretty level, it's not too bad. But if one or both have sharp dips, that can be difficult to smooth out nicely.

Just contact concierge and ask them to move the sims together if you already have them (give them instructions regarding which sims go where).

Or if you haven't purchased them yet, go to the land store and purchase the grid locations you want (all next to each other, and so forth) in whatever pattern you want.

Yeh, it's definitely better to start with a .raw file when creating a land mass so big, if for no other reason than you get a better view of the 'big picture' than you could standing in the middle of the sims. Even then I have found that you still have to do some work with the in-world tools though - I've found that even if you download a raw file and then resubmit it, you do get variations to the original terrain shape, though they are minor.

Agreed, Hiro.

The largest land mass I have made so far spanned 5 sims - 3 wide and 2 tall, and was one full-prim sim and 4 OpenSpaces sims. And I did notice that in one case, a file that I uploaded, downloaded again, tweaked and uploaded had as much as a 1/2 Meter change in some land levels, even though I hadn't *touched* that part of the heightmap. Fun...