Water World

I have friends who are constructing a water planet sim (private island). Unfortunately, Second Life hampers us... surrounding water is of course at the default 20m and you cannot go below 0 meters in terraforming.

This is unfortunate because we would like to have some very deep spots (like 70m deep water). 20meters just does not do it.

Is there anything we can do here? Something we don't know about?

I believe you can raise the water level in region/estate options.

Edit: Oh, and good luck with the sim - it sounds like an interesting development. I love themed sims too - there are just far too many topical ones out there right now.

Check out Port Babbage for a good example of a deep water harbour sim. Looks like they raised the water level pretty high there for their port. It's a great chain of steampunk sims too.. worth a visit.

Hope this helps

I know, but then you have the borders around your island in relation to the linden water that is at 20m. This looks awful.

Make a narrow band of land 70m high all around the edges and then fill it with water. Like a dormant Volcano full water.

Of course I am a very Newbie... just a thought...

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Sounds fantastic, and very interesting!

Could you use screens to suggest a different look at the borders?

Sorry, can't really offer much advice, but welcome to the forum

Call it " Pond World"?

In Louisiana the technique is used to grow rice and raise crawfish. (crayfish)

Well, if you want to keep the same water plane (the default 20m) then you'll have to do something creative about the deep water areas you want. I've had a think and I can suggest something...

An optical illusion for your divers. With a bit of texture artwork and a few sculpted prims on the borders, you could create a fake prim continental shelf, or deep sea trench at the edge of one of your sim borders underwater. In fact you could create this anywhere on the sea bed. Set the trench into a thin seperate parcel of land allowing push effects, then create an underwater bubble poofer with rising bubbles with a push effect upwards from your fake trench. You could even create a maelstrom on the water surface for added effect.

With the right texture art, and the right perspective, you could create a pretty convincing drop into the cold dark depths of the sea. rather than divers bouncing into a sim wall, they'd instead be pushed up to the surface by your artificial water currents.

Just an idea. If I was developing a water sim with the problems you have, I'd probably do something like that. Hell, I made an entire sculptie prim bottom for my very large linden water lake at home on 21,000 sq m., so there's hope yet for your water sim.

Be aware that unless they fix Windlight's view of underwater, it's going to be one murky world when Windlight becomes mandatory...

Call it 'In this sim there is water thats why we called it something like this'

On mainland, water height is always 20 meters.
On private servers, water height is variable.

Land height never goes below 0 meters.
I do not know the max values for land and water height.

I know no private servers with a much higher water level, seen a few with lower water levels.

It's been fixed

Check out Vernian Sea sim. I believe they raised their water level to 100m, and have awesome builds under water.

if it's a private island you might look into raising the water level anyways, and using a large phantom mega off the sides of it... this will still look crappy in windlight though