Editing Land Terrain

Does anyone own land that is on the mainland.
And find you cannot flatten really lumpy bits like hills and such they just will not go down.
Also I find on the mainland you own the land but you certainly do not have full rights to edit it.
I want to change the texture of the land as its an awful, dreadful Atol grass which is not very attractive at all. And why sghould I lay prims down with a nice ground texture, and waste my prim allowance. Why can't we change the land as we have bought it, pay tiers on it, and can't do a lot with it.

Cone on LL surely you can give us these rights, or at least change the appearance of the land to something more attractive than these atol grass textures.

Those lumps you're unable to flatten must be because that's the lowest or highest level of your terrain. In mainland the limit is +or- 4mts.
You can't change ground texture in mainland parcels. Do you imagine if everyone was able to change the terrain textures? You'd end up with a neighborhood looking like Disneyland.
Even when you rent land from an Estate, you wouldn't be able to change the ground texture. Also, a lot of Estates restrict terraforming as well.
The only way to ensure that you have ALL the land rights you're so wanting is to buy your own PI.

I've seen that my own land, and is an estate land, I can't alter the ground texture.

It's sandy, with green patches, and actually like it since I'm trying to set a tropical beach island group which needs lot's of sand anyway.

You can also sacrifice some prims, and lay your own land with flat boards, and texture those yourself. It just makes the land look very flat.

The land doesn't raise much, but actually that can be primmed as well. Make a huge rock prim and build your own cliff.

That would be an improvement in many cases.

LOL, for sure

Ashe

That is one of the limitations of living on the Mainland. It theory, terraforming on the mainland is limited because LL already designed their intended terrain for that area, and they don't want anyone changing it to something radically different. But they also aren't willing to be sufficently involved in resident to resident disputes to resolve the problems that would occur, if anyone on the Mainland could terraform their land to make their little 512 M2 parcel into a 100 Meter high plateau, or a sinkhole filled with 20M of water at the bottom, while in the process screwing up the terrain in every parcel adjacent to theirs.

Why isn't it a problem then for private islands to have +/- 100 M terraforming limits? Because sim owners who shelled out over a thousand bucks to own a sim usually care about what it looks like, and will very much get involved if someone abuses terraforming rights in their sim.

As for land texture, even on private islands, there is no parcel-level terrain texture control. Terrain textures are limited to being controlled at a sim-wide basis, using textures that have to tile seamlessly across the entire sim. That is a limitation of the rendering system, enforced to make it possible to render lots of nearby terrain rapidly. If they re-did the base server software to allow parcel-level texturing, it would inevitably slow our frame rates much further, as every parcel's texturing would have to be calculated individually.

Wow Ceera, nice explanation You taught me something today, thanks.

Ashe