[Outline land]

I know this is a stupid question but I can't find an answer:

I want to outline just the land I own. When I use shift/ctrl/alt/P I see the outlines for all the land.

I know the answer is buried someplace but I bought additional land five minutes ago and I'm sure you can all understand the urgency and excitement!

 

(Shout out to Whitney Linden, who has put up with my confusion, cutting and adding land for me, trying to understand what I wanted, and keeping her temper. For more than a week!)

[Create basement?]

On 9/11/2020 at 11:27 AM, Marianne Little said:

If you pull something out from your inventory to the ground, you have rezzed it.

I assume your friend gave you rights to rez, build and terraform, yes?

The Cozy Olive cottage is square, 14 m x 14 m. This makes it super easy to make a "filler" so you do not have to painstakingly make a 14 x 14 m hole with straight walls up.

One of the reviews says this:

"An unwanted sunken ditch around the cottage can be patched with a 76% holed 18x18 box. If you cannot do them, ask for your pro friend's hand."

This filler can you texture with default LL ground texture, like "base grass" or other texture. You can have a wood deck texture instead, or what ever you want. This takes up only one land impact, is solid to walk on and a perfect surface to rez on.

You just click the ground, choose build and click again. You make a cube, and can now click on it for edit. Set it to 18 x 18 and hollow 76% as suggested. You can easy make it bigger, but then you have to take down the hollow%.

These tutorials are super basic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6gvol-zIU&list=PL1EC105959AE91EE9&index=1

Thank you for writing it all out! Once people started telling me how to dig a basement, and now trying to rez some things, I've picked up on the fact that my friend loaned me some land, not gave me some of my own.

So, with many thanks to all - and yes, I have copied everything out into a document! - my next job is buying some abandoned land I've found. Y'all have me thinking I'd like to live in a neighborhood but I've fallen in love with some of the houses I've found.

Which doesn't mean I won't show up here again with a stupid question but, as someone pointed out last time, that's supposed to be available on some of the 'help' islands.

On 9/11/2020 at 11:27 AM, Marianne Little said:

 

 

 

[Create basement?]

On 9/7/2020 at 8:37 AM, BilliJo Aldrin said:

Digging a basement is rarely satisfactory. Its much easier to rezz several prims at the height you want the finished ground level to be, blend it into the land  on the uphill side if you are on a slope and build a retaining wall on the down hill side. Plus landscaping on a prim is so much simpler for rezzing shadows and such.

If the ground texture you choose for your lawn is richer and more lush that the LL ground, you can rezz a few lawn sprinklers to explain why your grass looks so much better than your neighbors.

Oh, if having to rezz more than one ground texture causes a computer to lag and struggle, its time for a new computer.

pictured is my 32 m by 32 m park area, with a low retaining wall and built entirely on a prim.

 

When I get my own land - a friend has load me a patch for the moment - do you know anyone who can walk me through rezzing? I think I've figured out how to raise and lower land . . .

More seriously, a copious spare time project is to see about putting together a mentors guild. But for now you've made me think of rezzing, another suggested land forms that work with those nearby, and between the two the light went off: I know the person nearby and would like my land to flow from hers.

[Create basement?]

On 9/8/2020 at 11:15 AM, Prokofy Neva said:

The problem is that mainland terraforming only goes up and down about 4+/- on most sims. Some of them have hills and you can do a lot more digging. But your basement just may not fit.

There's a house sold with a basement I would like to get, but after fiddling with the dimensions, I can't see where it will fit except my one exceptional sim with 40+/- (a very few old Mainland sims have this).

You would think a hill might work as it looks hollow underneath. Except when you try to push a build down into that space AND then try to sit down in it and put furniture in it, oops, it won't let you.

In any event, depending on your dimensions, on Mainland you will have to dig and see what you get on that particular sim. It may not work. Then you might have to put a foundation with a hollow in the middle as a way to create a "basement".

Would that be the Cozy Olive Cottage? That's exactly the one I'm trying to figure out. So I'm going to copy your experience to my list of things to try.

[Create basement?]

I picked up a great little cottage but it has a basement. A reviewer mentioned that you have to create one first - or dig one first?

[Backtracking from question re AO]

Nalatis, I'm sorry for bothering you with the basics, I didn't even know there was basic training. Meanwhile, though, someone here did offer to mentor me and we're doing fine. Meanwhile I really appreciate you offering some choices for 'beginning friendly"

The next problem I posted was about buying Lindons. It may have been a new thread, it may be one that mentioned VAT. I haven't found any help with that so I'll go looking again.

Thanks to all -

Kali

[Backtracking from question re AO]

Even a skim of what people are saying has made me realize that I need to backtrack to something more basic: there are new skins, or avatars, since the last time I played with are far better. A friend gave me one but something went wrong and while she has body and hands no arms. I'm willing to pay for a good one, an actual person,  but when I search Marketplace all I can find are Playboy Bunnies. Fun, but not something to walk around it. Of course once I have an avatar I'll be back bothering people about how to make her legs longer and such since I know I did that once. Is there someplace reliable?

(Come to think of it: is anyone willing to mentor a newbie so folks don't have to keep dealing with me and I don't have to keep trying to understand the threads? I'm fairly intelligent, listen carefully, ask questions when I don't understand things, etc. And yes, we can work on times such that I'll be online when you are.)

[AO]

I know this has been talked about before and apologize for starting it again: I'm back on SL after a number of years. 

I haven't figured out AO, I think it's called, and instead just stand there. Is it something I need to buy, turn on, spin around three times and wish on a star?  Sorry for being specious: socially it's been a very disconcerting night. It would be nice to get something simple working and need help.

Kali