Thanks for what you have done with the DIVA Distro. It has left me more time
for other things I am trying to learn

thanks Lance

I would be very interested if you could point me in the direction of this script as we would like our students to be able to consider urban planning for the next phase of this project. Our students are very keen to learn more about terraforming and are currently building a suitable library of scripts to use in OpenSim. Obtaining this particular script will be extremely helpful for our students on this project.

I was also able to get my hands on the tool Adam wrote, and experimented with sculpted terrain. I chose to try Ayer’s Rock in Australia, and then Beringer Crater in Arizona. The tool produced the necessary sculpts flawlessly, but I ran into a wall with texturing them. For some reason, the sliced terrain texture tiles never seemed to line up quite right for me.

If you want lots of detail you also need lots of sculpts, and rezzing/arranging these by hand is laborious. I wound up creating a tool in-world with LSL to lay them all out for me. It isn’t at all user-friendly, as you need to tweak the scripts by hand to fit the situation, but it does the job. It consists of two prims. The first one generates notecards for each row containing that row’s constituent sculpt UUIDs, and then a rezzer that spits out the sculpts in the correct arrangement. Each rezzed sculpt contains a script. Immediately after being rezzed by the rezzer, it can be sent information like it’s name, description, size, scale, or texture. Once that sculpt script completes, it deletes itself, leaving the sculpt clean.

It has been… oh, maybe a year since I played with this stuff, so I may misremember a few details.