Don’t Try this at Home
I’m in a mood to add to the landscaping of my land on Tuscana before tackling rebuilding the house. There are some things I want to do differently in layout of the house and I don’t have it all figured out just yet, so as a result creating the formal gardens jumped to the top of my to-do list.
First of all I wanted a road, so I researched how roads were constructed in various sims like Caledon and Straylight. One Zen-like sim with paths in the woods put their road texture on a flattened cylinder, giving it a rounded shape that I thought was interesting (so it was higher in the middle than on the sides), but the majority of places just used flat box prims, about half as wide as they were long.
Not a problem. I chose to use the flat box shape and I found a nice cobblestone texture in my inventory and applied it. Using the very clever Copy Selection and Center Copy commands, I had in short order a road running north/south through my half of Tuscana. I really wanted a road that had gentle curves rather than the right angle turns I settled for, but trying to figure that out how to accomplish that was going to take far more time than just employing the simple Copy Selection, which creates a copy and aligns it perfectly up with the original so you don’t have to think about it (though only at right angles). Thank you, Diva, for showing me this!
Through some trial-and-error I discovered a way to create an uneven edge along the road, giving it a more natural and organic look. I buried the road about 4 meters down and then dug it out using the terraform Lower Land command with the area affected option set to “Small.” Some building back up was required because I dug down too far, and then I also copiously used the “Smooth Land” command to even it all out. I like the result:
I added some cypress trees along the edge and Saffia gave me a lovely fountain (thanks, Saffia!) created by Dellybean North to put in the middle of the crossroads and I had a decent road.
Much later in the evening I was showing my husband the results of my work and noticed that someone had come by and rezzed a bunch of stuff on my land and then just left it. (I think this is very rude, BTW, but perhaps the person in question is a newb, so I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.) Valence (my husband’s inworld name) wondered how I would get rid of the objects, since I didn’t have permission to modify them. Feeling very clever, I clicked on About Land/Objects. “Here, look, I can just click this button and all the objects will be returned to that person’s inventory.”
Only I clicked on About Land/Objects/Primitives on Parcel Owned by Parcel Owner/Return instead of About Land/Objects/Primitives on Parcel Owned by Others/Return.
With one mouse click all of the work I’d done that day was gone, taken back into my inventory.
Oops.
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