Wednesday, September 28, 2011

h) LAND: Terraforming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5tZN4BVSw&feature=related



This exercise for Terraforming was done in Rocket World.  I watched the Second Life video and proceeded to follow various options.  In general, they were successful.  

I raised the land in Rocket World and had no issues following the Second Life Terraforming Video Tutorial.  However, I did notice that where Second Life had the small, medium and large drop down for brush size, whereas in Rocket World, I had a size slider to make the sizes vary.  The technique was basically the same even though it was a bit different in Rocket World.  Below are some of the Rocket World screenshots:

I continued trying various options in Rocket World with no problems.  I tried the flatten option:


The lower option:

The smooth option:

The roughen option:



And the revert option, again in Rocket World , reverting the shape back to the original - not just an undo.
 Below is selecting some area of land:
However, Second life has Apply for the selection option, and Rocket World only has an apply button.  There is a slight difference here, but they work generally the same.










You can see information about your land by clicking the name on the top bar, and choosing the covenant tab - Rocket World and Second Life are basically the same.  Below are my Rocket World screenshots:


The options to look at the World=> Region Estate =>ground textures are similar in Rocket World as well.  You can choose inventory and see many different textures in the library.  Although, in Rocket World, my textures had difficulties in loading.


The Terrain tab allows you to use raw terrain files to change the terraform terrain, and some options you can use if you are the estate owner like the bake terrain to have the revert back go to the terrain you bake.
Seems that I was basically successful in following these Second Life video options in Rocket World, even though some of the buttons were slightly different.









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