cannot flatten slope parcel

[Fury Viper]

I bought 2 mainland parcels and joined them, they are water parcels. when i try to terraform and bring the land up, only a small strip at the back will actually come up, the rest stays sloped. i am pretty familiar with terraforming and how to edit the whole parcel to terraform, i just dont get why it will only raise a small part. even when i lower all of it or flatten all of it, it still is sloped. any help is appreciated.

[Alwin Alcott]

17 minutes ago, Fury Viper said:

I bought 2 mainland parcels and joined them, they are water parcels. when i try to terraform and bring the land up, only a small strip at the back will actually come up, the rest stays sloped. i am pretty familiar with terraforming and how to edit the whole parcel to terraform, i just dont get why it will only raise a small part. even when i lower all of it or flatten all of it, it still is sloped. any help is appreciated.

in general mainland has a terraforming limit of + 4 and  - 4 (taken from the original design) if you'r parcels are under water, or maxed out at any side yet, there will be no flattening or other change possible.

You can of course, use prims or mesh landscaping objects to suggest land above the water.

Edited February 23, 2023 by Juan Marques

[Polenth Yue]

Something that can help you plan is using the revert function in the terraforming tool. Take it all back to the original levels. Then you'll see clearly what you can raise or lower. For a slope, you will find it's best to flatten bits of it and not to attempt to flatten the whole thing. So you end up with more of a terrace effect, with some flatter areas and some slopes between them. Or you can go full terrace and make the edges of the flat bits sharp and put walls over them.

Alternatively, just accept it's a slope, smooth it out, and put any buildings on stilts or a foundation.

[Ingrid Ingersoll]

Sloped land often cant be made fully flat unfortunately . But you can usually flatten at least a bit of it.

[diamond Marchant]

You have the good problem, which is raising your land when terraforming does not work. This is solved by adding prims/mesh to create new terrain at the desired elevation.

The bad problem is when you can’t lower your land, for example, to create a harbor. 

[Sorina Garrigus]

Mainland is limited on terraforming ... your best bet is to make some fake land using prims with grass textures such. I have a huge building on mainland and the building has to be 20 meters up with stairs going up. Terraforming on mainland doesn't have the flexibility it use to back in the old days. 

[Chic Aeon]

Just to add to this thread -- the "Color Sims" ( I am on Umber) still have advanced (or retro from long ago if you want to look at it that way) terraforming.  That is both "good" and "bad" depending on the size of your plot and your neighbors' sensibilities and their aesthetics. 

 

There was a reason LL changed those terraforming rules.   So think ISLAND