Changing ground texture

I am on a roll - 2 consecutive posts!

I have just purchased a Homestead sim and plan to change the ground texture. I have read the entry and answers to "Grass Texture, Meggy Sauber, 11/11/09" and have got the general idea of how to change things.

However, I have seen some lovely flowery/foresty ground textures in SL.
- Are these available to buy anywhere?
- If not, can I make and upload ground textures?
- Do ground textures need to be in a certain format and size?
- Most importantly, are there any helpful save or undo tips I should know of? As I am new to this I can imagine botching things totally and being stuck with a real mess!

Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

There are numerous terrain textures available on XStreetSL; seach for 'terrain' or rowse the Home -> Home and Garden -> Landscaping.


Absolutely; any texture can be used on terrain provided it is the right size. Ground textures must be 512x512 pixels and should be 24 bit .tga according to the Estate Tools interface. I suspect any file format would be OK, but avoid textures with alpha transparency.


Unfortunately there isn't a 'revert' or 'undo' for changes to the Ground Textures options, so be sure to take careful note of the settings before changing them.


There's a great video tutorial by Torley Linden in the Knowledge Base which all the terrain editting facilities, including the ground texture controls. It's well worth the time to run through. See the full article here:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/How_to_Use_the_Edit_Terrain_Tool

Thanks! very, very helpful

Ground requires 512x512 targas, 24 bit.
All the LL ground textures are in your library.
You can see the ones in use and their various heights in the, oh, I think Estate Info or something like that.