Island...

Hello!
I bought a land on water. I tried to raise the land to make a little island but I can't raise it high enough. Any idea?

TY!

Irsa

If you can't raise the land, rez a prim (maybe a big flattened sphere) and apply a terrain texture to it, maybe. Then set the height of your Prim to make it act like ground.


Or build a houseboat.

Yes, but then I won't be able to have a nice wavy shape like a beach.

The underwater ground is probably raised to max. You'll need to use several prims to create your island...

if it was originally Linden-owned land, then the most you can deform it is 4 meters up or down. that said, i think some private sims allow up to 10-mete deformation, although it's rare.

you may have to just go with a houseboat, or use sculpty prims to get a more organic water's edge to your prim-based island.

Just so you know, mainland sims are terraformable anywhere from +/-0 all the way to +/-40, depending on which sim you're talking about. I'm not sure why, but newer sims tend to be less terraformable than older ones. Indigo, where I live, is almost 4 years old and it's +/-40. Terraformable sims that were added a few months later were +/-20. After that, it went' to +/-10 and then finally to +/-4. Non-terraformable sims have always been part of the mix.

Irsa, when you buy land, one of the first things you should always look at is whether or not it's terraformable, and by how much. If your land truly is not terraformable, then you have two options. Build your island out of prims or move.

If you opt for primming it, and simulating the smoothed look of land is important to you, then I'd suggest you learn how to make sculpted prims. You can immitate the look of land very effectively with sculpties. Just be aware that the physics of sculpties is deceiving, so don't expect to be able to walk on the land. It'll just be for show.

If you do need to walk on it, put some regular prims just underneath the sculpties, so that you're actually walking on the regulars while you appear to be walking on the sculpted surface.