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Limitations of the Terrain function?

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Jimmy

Jimmy
Posted: 06 December 2009 11:30 PM

Location: Mantorp, Östergötland
Total Posts: 135
Joined: 23 August 2006 09:14 AM

Hi! I’m just now doing some landscapes from dwg files using the height curves. I bring them in to Max and using Terrain to make the landscapes. Most of the times I get rather dirty meshes. Is there some method to get clean result with Terrain? Any suggestion are welcome :)

Regards / Jimmy

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It’s been disscussed many time here before. Put simply, use Conform to wrap a nice clean mesh to it.

Author: Samab

Replied: 07 December 2009 12:59 AM

Jimmy

Jimmy
Posted: 07 December 2009 02:09 AM

Location: Mantorp, Östergötland
Total Posts: 135
Joined: 23 August 2006 09:14 AM
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Thanks Samab! Yes, I have been using Conform to “convert” to clean things up. Still, there must be some way to get clean(er) results native from Terrain? The examples in the manual looks ok.

One of the problem is to get the same amount of vertices per spine. Is there a tool for that?

Regards / Jimmy

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You could try Normalize Spl. To get evenly spaced verts on your splines.

Author: Samab

Replied: 07 December 2009 02:50 AM

Jimmy

Jimmy
Posted: 08 December 2009 06:47 PM

Location: Mantorp, Östergötland
Total Posts: 135
Joined: 23 August 2006 09:14 AM
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Thanks! I try that!

Regards / Jimmy

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