Water covering land

Hello

I manage some sims for a friend of mine. Last night "all of a sudden" on one of the lots, the water now covers most of the lot. I rebooted the sim and that didn't fix the problem (something told me that wouldn't work). The owner of the lot claims to not have done anything. So, how do I get the land back up to where it was w/out manually terraforming the entire lot. It's a quarter of the sim.

If it's one lot that has the problem you can terrform that. Raise Land, apply to selection, when that lot is selected.

If you can't terraform the land upwards, maybe you should consider putting your building on stilts and pretend you live in Venice.

Isn't there an option in land to set it back to what it originally was? I could be dreaming though..

In estate tools there is a way to set the water height for the sim. This is easily reset and normal the value is 20 to match the linden water height. Contact me in world if you need help finding the setting.

Char

"Revert"

I've had the water level drop to zero in a sim, for no apparent reason. Have an estate manager or the sim owner check the water height setting in the estate management tools. For most sims, it should be 20M. If it's strange, ask them to set it back where it belongs. Thyey may need to restart the sim after resetting the watre height.

Well I was trying to get away from having to terraform a quarter of a sim. I saw "revert" but the last thing I wanted to do was make things worse.

It's not the water height that's the problem.. it's fine across the entire sim at 20 meters. It's the land that has become lower than the water. I don't quite get how that happened.

Then it sounds like someone with terraform abilities managed to select that area and lower or revert the terrain.

Note that "Revert" takes the terrain to the leveles set in the last saved .raw file, which might be quite different than what it was before you saw this change.

Yes, I have only used Revert on mainland. Apply to selection with great caution!

Hmm reverting the land is lowering it... what a mess!

*Ray flees from the forum.

hehe no I don't blame you. I just tried a small spot. I just wish I could make the lot back like it was before whatever happened. I think after this little incident I need to turn off the terraforming for all the sims. I always get IMs like "ana! all of a sudden I have this huge hill on my lot... can you fix it?" "ana, my lot is flooded? can you fix it?!?" *sighs*

It's hard playing God. Unless you're Morgan Freeman.

The 'Revert' function is *not* an 'undo' function.

What it does is it 'reverts' the selected land back to its last baked state. For mainland, this usually means that it reverts the land back to the terrain level that it was at when the Lindens first created the sim.

On a Private Island, 'revert' will return the land back to the state it was last time the estate owner 'baked' the terrain. It depends completely on when the estate owner baked the terrain, if ever. Baking the terrain is kind of like a 'save' function - when you get things just the way you like it, bake the terrain.

So if someone did lots of terrain editing, and got things exactly how they liked it, but subsequent changes are made (i.e. lowering an entire parcel) there is *no way* to easily get things back again.

I take frequent backups of my island's terrain, usually once or twice a month. I bake the terrain now and then, if everything seems just perfect. If your estate owner is equally cautious (aka anal aka ocd) then you might be in luck. A saved terrain file is as good as baking it.

However, if the estate owner doesn't have a recent RAW file and the 'revert' function isn't helping... then the only remaining option is to do it over by hand and try to get it as close as you can, to what it was.

Good luck.

-Atashi

edited to add: One other detail with the 'baking' of terrains is when you have terrain edit limits, i.e +/- 4 meters, +/- 10 meters, etc. those limits are based on the baked terrain height.

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Yes. When it gets to 25% buy. I am planning to be much more helpful in the coming fiscal quarter.

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/me starts saving her pennies in a jar

P.S. Sorry for derailing the thread. Just ignore me.

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