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Cloning an Island's Terraforming - ?

Nerolus Mosienko
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Join date: 3 Aug 2006
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03-10-2008 12:12
Hello,

I've recently had a large project on my hands and I'm going to need to design an island, and then clone it on a second. I've got no problem rezzing my buildings, etc. But how would I go about copying ALL the terraforming from my already terraformed island onto the other one? Is this a libsl thing? Do I have to buy something? Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Nerolus
Derbor Torok
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Join date: 21 Jun 2007
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03-10-2008 12:15
From: Nerolus Mosienko
Hello,

I've recently had a large project on my hands and I'm going to need to design an island, and then clone it on a second. I've got no problem rezzing my buildings, etc. But how would I go about copying ALL the terraforming from my already terraformed island onto the other one? Is this a libsl thing? Do I have to buy something? Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Nerolus


The way to do this is to save the raw file of the old island from your estate tools and upload it to the new one.

.d
Atashi Toshihiko
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Join date: 7 Dec 2006
Posts: 1,423
03-10-2008 12:25
The Estate Menu, Terrain Tab gives you the ability to upload and download RAW terrain files. As Derber has said, just download the RAW file from the first estate then upload that to the second estate. This does not include the terrain textures, but you can copy those manually, just jot down the information from the Ground Textures tab from the first estate then put that info into the menu for the second estate.

Here's a wiki with good information on using the estate menu:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Estate_Menu

-Atashi
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Sling Trebuchet
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03-10-2008 13:00
I wonder if the OP is talking of cloning the manual terraforming that might have been done?

To clone that via an upload, the server would have to generate a raw file from the existing terrain.
Desmond Shang
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Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
03-10-2008 13:06
From: Nerolus Mosienko
Hello,

I've recently had a large project on my hands and I'm going to need to design an island, and then clone it on a second. I've got no problem rezzing my buildings, etc. But how would I go about copying ALL the terraforming from my already terraformed island onto the other one? Is this a libsl thing? Do I have to buy something? Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Nerolus


If you *own* the island you just bake terrain, and then upload a copy of the .raw file to your HD.

If you don't own it, get the owner to do this and email you the .raw. Then you can just upload the .raw again. Or if you aren't the island owner get the owner of island #2 to upload it.

It's also good to have the terrain textures and settings.

Sadly, parceling doesn't copy over... it makes it into the .raw, but doesn't upload to the clone.
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Atashi Toshihiko
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03-10-2008 13:46
From: Desmond Shang
Sadly, parceling doesn't copy over... it makes it into the .raw, but doesn't upload to the clone.


I haven't even seen the parceling info in the raw file - I did downloads of my regions on Saturday, and the parcel layer comes up as just a plain white layer.

-Atashi
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Desmond Shang
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03-10-2008 13:51
From: Atashi Toshihiko
I haven't even seen the parceling info in the raw file - I did downloads of my regions on Saturday, and the parcel layer comes up as just a plain white layer.

-Atashi


Sometimes it's really hard to see.

Say you've got a value of 254 or 250 in there - it's really hard to tell the difference unless you use the photoshop eyedropper tool and look at the RGB values of the tone.

But maybe things have changed, it's been a while.
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Atashi Toshihiko
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03-10-2008 13:57
I've never looked that close - it all looked white to me :)

I just double checked though and it's all 255 across the board. I've always wondered why the parcel layer never worked - when I got my first island, I spent a bunch of time doing up a parcel layer in a graphics program, getting everything just so, only to have the system completely ignore it! :)

Ah well -- at least the terrain, water, and multiplyer layers work.

-Atashi
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Desmond Shang
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03-10-2008 14:01
Gah... how annoying. :(

It's really too bad it doesn't work... I could have sworn I saw it saving the data though back in... 2006? I could be wrong.
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