Water? Grass? - not weed ;-)

Hi,

two simple noob questions.

I'd like to build a little pond, how do i fill the hole in the landscape with water?

My parcel is all stones, looks like the moon surface. How do i put a grass texture on _Land_ ?

Thank you,

Clinton

Hi Clinton!

if the hole isn't at sea level (where the rest of the water in SL is) then it won't automatically fill with water. All is not lost, however! Just take a rectangular or cylindrical prim and fill the space with that. Then, set the color to a blue that sorta matches SL water, or put a water texture on it (you can find water textures for cheap at the GNU store (Find button > Places > GNU, it's near the Pomponio volcano)). The real trick is to click the Phantom check box in the Edit palette.

As far as a grass texture, you can't texture land. You can, however, raise or lower it, and sometimes that changes the texture based on altitude. Your only other option is to make a few sphere prims and adjust their size and shape, depth etc and texture those with grass, and set them into the ground so they are little hills. I'd recommend very low spheres, more like discs.

I have some skill in making shaped land using prims and have transforned many bare brown earth patches to lush green and intregrate shapes with existing land.. i have created a lot of ' faux land' ..
if u want help contact me

Point to the ground and right-click. In the pie menu that appears choose "Create." In the palette that appears, next to the button for creating trees, is an icon for creating grass. Select it and then start clicking on the ground. Grass will start to sprout wherever you click. Be careful... it's pretty wild and multiplies fast. Be advised if you use A LOT of Linden grass it can give you significantly slower client-side fps. Checkout The Forest of Kahruvel, in Rodeo, if you want to see a lot of grass area that has been created this way.