grass!

Last night I was standing around talking to the leader of our little gardener's group, the Second Life Druids and I wondered outloud -- is there any way at all to get the low, flat ground back to the nice green grassy color on the hills? That is, other than groundcover textured prims? I asked Lee Linden about this and after a little confusion over which grass I meant exactly, he finally answered my question -- the land goes from white to green to brown depending on height of the land. I can understand it going to white as it gets taller to simulate the top of a mountain and lower, on beach front areas perhaps, to simulate sand -- however!

I think it would be extremely cool to either a) create some mechanism in which grass can "grow" back in places where land has been lowered so that it doesn't permanently look developed (I flattened a little piece of my small plot of land and it went brown on me). After all, even in RL, developed land does eventually go back to nature . Or secondly, if there was a way to allow landowners to retexture the actual land using Linden-provided textures for consistency? I love my little hidden spot in Slate where I've built a big old elm tree but I hate the brown ground. I think there's plenty of other people, especially the Druids, who would like to be able to "recreate" that grassy look too.

Thanks!

Zana

You can make one form of grass through the create options, at the end of the various prim choices. It's not the ground color that you're talking about, but rather the scattered little clumps that you see here and there in undeveloped land, especially pine groves. I believe you are charged $10 to create a small area worth of grass, same as for a Linden-made tree or single prim.

Kitra,

Thanks . Yes I know about the prim-grass and have used it . I'm talking about allowing the green texture of grass on higher elevation land on lower elevation too -- i.e. my park is near the water level and thus the ground is an ugly brown color and I want it to be a pretty green without using prims .

Zana

Yes, I knew what you meant. It would be nice to have that level of control, but until we do, I work around it (not the ideal, but at least better than brown ground). When I'm working on uneven land and can't use a single textured slab to put ground cover on it all, I make the most artful use I can of rocks and linden ferns to hide ugly spots at relatively low prim cost. At least at water level, the tax on prims is low.

I agree Zana, it would be great if there was a way to select the texture of our land. Like maybe when you select "Edit Land" there could be a check box for the texture you want.

The only problem I see with this is we could end up with a real checkerboard landscape, a 4x4 of snow next to grass, etc. As long as someone is living on the land, I don't think that would be too much of a problem, it would be after the land goes back Public. Maybe LL could put in a feature that the land would revert to it's original land type, say 48 hours, after going Public. They could even do the same thing with terra forming......but that's another thread.


-TK

Tracey, this would be very nice to have, I agree.

All very good points about grass guys. I am building in Boardman right now and have wondered about some of these problems as I get closer to doing my landscaping.

One thing that really has bothered me is the fact that the plots are surronded by Linden owned land so even if we find a way to make our own land green, we still are faced with strips of brown between our lots, as well as between our lot and the sidwalk out front.

I supose we could also cover these spots to make our green lots meet. But then we have the expense of making someone elses property green.

It would be great in developements like Boardman where the lot size is limited to have it automatic that the strips of land between lots at least turns a nicer green when developed on both sides. Or if it radiated out from a lot a certain distance.

Another option would be to make it possible to purchase the strips between lots by one or both owners and have them revert back to Linden if the lot owners return thier property to public.