Second Life Griefing Tools Direct

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In Second Life, not only do you have the power to do amazing things like fly — you can terraform, which means you can change the shape and elevation of land (terrain) in seconds! All it takes is a few quick clicks.

Terraforming can range from the realistic..

.. to the whimsical and beyond.

How do I terraform?

1. Right-click the ground and choose Edit Terrain. This opens Build Tools - Edit Terrain.
2. Select a terrain editing tool (Flatten, Raise, and so on).
3. Move your cursor over the terrain. You should see small white arrows showing the size, strength, and direction of your current 'terraform brush'.
4. Start 'painting' the ground by clicking and dragging.
5. Adjust Size and Strength to taste. Sometimes you'll want to paint in very broad, dramatic strokes — other times more subtlety is called for.

This video tutorial shows you how to quickly get started:

Alternatively, if you want to terraform a specific selection:

1. In Build Tools - Edit Terrain, click Select Land.
2. Click and drag your cursor across the terrain to select.
3. Select a terrain editing tool and adjust Size and Strength.
4. Click Apply. This affects all selected terrain.

Where can I terraform?

You can terraform land you own or group-owned land you've been granted the ability to reshape.

However, the range you can terraform depends on region settings which may be controlled by Linden Lab or an estate owner/manager. See Land Limits.

Where do I enable/disable terraforming?

A landowner can always terraform their own land, provided there aren't greater restrictions.

If you want to allow others, including random strangers to terraform your land parcel:

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1. Choose World > Place Profile > About Land.
2. In the About Land window, click OPTIONS tab.
3. Check Edit Terrain tab.

Further up a level, terraforming range can be changed by estate owners and managers:

1. Choose World > Place Profile > Region/Estate.
2. In the Region/Estate window, click Terrain tab.
3. Set the Water Height, Terrain Raise Limit, and Terrain Lower Limit.

Does enabling 'Edit Terrain' do anything else?

Yes, strangely enough, it also allows Linden trees and other plants to be placed on your land. These are special objects unlike Resident-created tree objects which have some weird properties you should know about.

If I don't own any land, can I practice terraforming?

Yes, there's a quick and easy place you can feel free to mess up — Torley's landbox, which you can teleport to now. It's featured in the video tutorial above.

How do I change terrain textures?

Terraforming controls one part of your land's look: another part is the textures which are mapped on the surface to simulate grass, snow, or stranger stuff.

How do I prevent terraform griefing?

'Terraform griefing' refers to intentional destruction of your terrain, which can also affect objects which were previously resting on or near your terrain. As the old saying goes, 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'.

First of all, as mentioned above, never enable Edit Terrain on a parcel unless you're absolutely sure you want everyone else in the world to come by and change your terrain. For example, enabling Edit Terrain would be appropriate if you have a chaotic creative space that Residents are free to litter on, but you wouldn't want it on if you've meticulously sculpted a mountain.

Furthermore, if your land is group-owned, make sure only intended group members have the ability to turn Edit Terrain. As a group owner:

1. Choose World > Place Profile > About Land.
2. In the About Land window, click General tab.
3. Next to Owner, Click the name of the group.
4. On the inspector that appears, click View Profile.
5. In the sidebar now showing the group info, click Roles to expand it.
6. Click the Roles sub-tab.
7. Click a role. For example, 'Everyone'.
8. Scroll down to the bottom where it says Allowed Abilities.
9. In the list of abilities, scroll down and make sure Toggle 'Edit Terrain' is off. (It's off by default for 'Everyone' but on for 'Officers' and always on for 'Owners'.) Repeat this for each appropriate role.

Applicable for estate owners and managers but just as important — make sure to click Bake Terrain (found in the Region/Estate window's Terrain tab) when your terrain is set as you like it. As described here, this sets how the terrain looks when you use the Revert land tool.

Optionally, if you want no terraforming happening on a region you own/manage:

1. Choose World > Place Profile > Region/Estate.
2. In the Region/Estate window, click Terrain tab.
3. Click Bake Terrain and confirm this is the shape you want 'frozen'.
4. Set Terrain Raise Limit and Terrain Lower Limit both to 0.
5. Click Apply.

This means no one else (like renters) can alter their terrain across the entire region, not even you — unless you change the limits.

If your region was terraform-griefed, you may want to consider using the Revert land tool, but if objects were also returned or other substantial damage, contact Concierge to request a 'rollback'.

This video shows how to do most of the above:

I own an estate, what terraform settings should I use for my regions?

That depends on your vision and intent for the estate.

• If you've just gotten your region, you'll need to terraform it to initially shape it. So you'll probably want to set Terrain Raise Limit to 100.00 and Terrain Lower Limit to -100.00but make sure Edit Terrain is off on individual parcels.
  • Or, in Region/Estate's Estate tab, uncheck Allow Public Access so wanderers can't come in until you say otherwise.
• If you have a themed region where the experience is tightly controlled, not allowing terraforming is common. Nothing wrecks immersion like being in a sandy desert and watching a spike shoot out of your neighbor's parcel, after all (unless you're emulating the sandworms from Dune).

I see regions that have such cool terraforming! How did they do that?

Like this?

As with many things in Second Life, creativity is endless and methods vary, so ask the estate owner and/or manager. They'll likely enjoy hearing that you noticed their art!

Beyond 'by-hand' shaping, there are two advanced ways to terraform:

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1. RAW files - Specifically-formatted computer graphics files. There are ways to convert a normal picture into a RAW file.
2. Scripted gadgets - These assist you with automating terrain changes. Search the marketplace for 'terraformer' as there isn't a specific category devoted to them.

This video shows Squirrel Wood's 'Professional Terraformer' scripted gadget:

In addition, clever Residents have come up with 'terrain extenders' and other enhancements which aren't technically terrain, but objects designed to complement the overall look of your region. Like a really pretty wig. These can also be found on the Marketplace.

See also

Link to more awesome terraforming info here!

• Texture Tools - Related apps for making terrain textures.
• Solution Providers who offer terraforming services - If you'd rather hire expertise and not do it yourself.
• Terraforming 101 - Nicely-illustrated tutorial by Rrishanna Regina. Note it shows the older Viewer 1.xx interface, but the basics are still the same.

REPORT ALL GRIEFERS

A. Executive summary of this notecard:

To report griefing, go to Help at the Top of your screen. If you were shot or shoved or constrained, check Bumps Pushes and Hits to see who did it. Then, also in Help, select Report Abuse and fill out the AR (Abuse Report) form.Details and explanation follow, below.

B. WHAT ARE GRIEFERS?Griefers are people who deliberately interfere with other people's legitimate enjoyment of an activity; or who pursue their own fun with wreckless disregard for negative effects on bystanders.

You can report abusive behavior to Linden Lab. Multiple reports lead to the griefer being suspended from Second Life for a time, or possibly being permanently banned.

C. USE THE AR (Abuse Report) TO REPORT A GRIEFER

1) If griefers are pushing you around or shooting at you, quickly sit on the ground or on something belonging to you. Normally griefers cannot move you while you sit. If they are using malicious objects, hover your pointer over the object to see the owner's name.

2) Quickly write down your location (region, XYZ coordinates). If you can tell who the griefer is, write their name quickly on a piece of paper. Don't bother to engage the griefer in conversation or argument. It just gratifies them and delays your report.

3) Go to HELP at the top of your SL screen.

If you have just been forced out of your location or position, by shoving or with a weapon (scripted object), select BUMPS, PUSHES, & HITS. The abuser's name will probably be listed there. . Be careful -- there are many innocent bumps sometimes, from people who accidentally walk into you.

Also under HELP, select REPORT ABUSE.

4) On the AR (Abuse Report Form) you will see a small snapshot of your current field of view. If this snapshot shows what the griefer is doing, click 'include screenshot' under the picture.

5) You will see a box that says 'Select Category' and has a drop-down menu. You must select one of the categories of abusive behavior. Here are some examples to clarify those categories.

INTOLERANCE: Seeking to exclude a person from what should be a public activity or area.

Using extremely insulting and inflammatory language toward groups of people based on race, nationality, religion, or sexual preferences.

HARRASSMENT: Pressing for interaction with someone after being told to stop;

Pursuing, bothering, or repeatedly insulting a person. Debates and personal quarrels do not constitute harrassment, however. Those are consensual activities.

ASSAULT: Repeatedly walking into someone (not by mistake);

Using a weapon to push people out of a location where they have a right to be;

Placing a cage or container around a person;

Producing objects, particles, or sounds that are disruptive or interfere with your field of view, or which excessively consume server resources in your region;

Repeatedly playing sound clips or filling chat with verbage so as to disrupt other people's conversations.

INDECENCY: nude genital display, using obscene language excessively or repeatedly, or rezzing disgusting objects in a PG area ( or in a mature area where land owners forbid it, or the intention is to bother others).

PARCEL VIOLATIONS:Placing objects across parcel boundaries; using another person's land to place advertisements or malicious objects; littering another person's land.

6) Abuser name

You cannot directly write the griefer's name in the 'Abuser name' box. Click the Select button just to the right of the Abuser name box. It will open 'person chooser'.

In the person chooser, type the griefer's name or part of it. This will open a list of similar names. Choose the right name and click Select. That name will automatically be placed in the 'Abuser name' field of the AR form.

If you cannot see who the griefer is (for example, you are assaulted with a lot of sounds and you do not know where they are coming from) use the name BLUE LINDEN. Blue Linden generously allows his name to be defamed this way, as a work-around. The AR cannot be sent with no abuser name on it.

7) Location of abuse

If you are still at the site of abuse when you begin the report, the report will automatically record the location and time. If you have gone to a different location to make the abuse report, you must use the body of the report form to state the name of the sim in which the griefing occurred, and preferably the parcel name or coordinates too.

8) Summary

Give a brief title to your report. Refer to the time, so that the Abuse Team at Linden Lab knows whether an immediate response is helpful or not.

Examples of summaries:

'Here and Now, griefers shooting a crowd'or'Griefers 4PM, shot people, gone now'or'Harrassing me now, won't leave my house'or'Griefer yesterday left objects on parcel'

9) Details

Your abuse report will reach the Lindens with an automatic date and time stamp showing when it was sent, and from where. You do not need to give the date, time, and coordinates of the griefing episode if the automatially entered information is accurate. Just start the description with something like 'Here and now' if the abuse is happening; something like 'Here at 4PM Second Life Time' if you are reporting after the fact.

Example of 'Details':

'4 PM yesterday June 4 at Rosebud 110, 30, 31 Ratsucker Hax shot 6 guests out of my shop.'

'Here and now, Ratsucker Hax is rezzing obscene objects and particles going over my parcel boundary. Chat excerpt:You: Get rid of this stuff. You have no quarrel with my guests.Ratsucker Hax: its not on ur land u cant do anything so eat me lol

10) REPORT ABUSE

Don't forget to click the Report Abuse button at the bottom of the report, to send it!

D. REPORTING A GRIEFER OBJECT

If a griefer goes away and leaves a harmful or irritating object behind, you can use the object to identify the griefer and submit a report.

1) Right-click on the object

2) Select More

3) Select More again

4) Select Report Abuse

5) The Abuse Report form should open for you, showing the name of the owner of the object in the 'Abuser name' field. If not, use the 'Click the button, then the object' option near the top of the Abuse Report form.

6) Fill out the rest of the form and be sure to click the Report Abuse button at the bottom when it is complete.

WILL THE GRIEFER SEE MY NAME?

The Lindens will not tell the griefer the names of any people who reported him.

IF THE GRIEFER KNOWS I REPORTED HIM, CAN HE TRACK ME DOWN AND BOTHER ME?

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