Terrain editing

[ivke]

I have Carrara 5 Pro. When you create a terrain in Carrara.

You want to edit it you have to go then to the terrain editor and use the red circle to edit the terrain, see the attachment.

Q1; It is only possible to increase the terrain height and not decrease it?

When you go back then to the assembly room is it then possible:

Q2; Cut holes in it, to create a cave or tunnel in it, maybe with boolean cut?

Q3; Shape the terrain to any kind of form you might like?

Q4; To create roads or railways on the terrain?

If anyone could help me with that, thanks.

[wyvernoir]

You can use the terrain editor just like it was in Bryce. Draw anything you like, make it a gray scale height map in a program like photoshop, and import it into the Carrara editor.

[ivke]

Q2; Cut holes in it, to create a cave or tunnel in it, maybe with boolean cut?

Question 2; This is solved I found out you can do it in the edit menu, however you need to have the terrain and the other object selected at the same tim.

[McGuiver]

If you want a more controlable terrain, use a grid in the vertex modeler.
Start out with a fairly low number of quads and use the magnet tool to raise the grid into a basic terrain. (Hold down ctrl to limit the magnet to the z- direction.

Then you can subdivide the mesh & convert it to vertexes to make more detail.

Here is a quick mountain with a cave and a road done in the vertex modeler.
Note that my shading domains on the road need some work, but it was only a test.

[ivke]

If you want a more controlable terrain, use a grid in the vertex modeler.

Thanks for that tip, McGuiver I would never otherwise tried to do it that way.

Ivke!