Is there a way to quickly revert terrain?

[Haven Heartsong]

Hi guys:

After having created a certain terrain condusive to,  and used for, role play, I would then like to change the terrain back to the default.  Is there a way of doing this without having to go through the 'revert' option in the Edit Terrain menu?

[Ceera Murakami]

Generally speaking, no. Not after the fact.

If it's a private sim, and you own it (not rent it), or at least have the correct permissions as estate Manager, then you can save a .raw file for the terrain state before you start changing it, and save the raw file again after making the changes. Then you can switch between the two states by loading the appropriate saved raw file. But this is always a sim-wide change. It can't be done on the parcel level.

Be careful also with 'revert'. While that does affect only the selected chunk of terrain, you may not get what you hoped for. Revert takes you back to the last saved/loaded raw file state, which on the mainland is whatever the Lindens designed it as. The terrain could have been changed quite a bit from that state before you ever saw that parcel of land, and what it will revert to could be very different than what you remembered it as.