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Title: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Upon Infinity on March 26, 2019, 07:57:32 AM
Any good ways of smoothing out a specific area of your landscape, if it's rather choppy?  Not completely flattening with a simple shape but rather using the painted shader to 'average out' an area and maintaining relative (averaged) height.
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Dune on March 26, 2019, 11:06:04 AM
Smoothing filter is one choice. But I prefer to start out with a smoother terrain and add finer displacements where I want them.
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: RichTwo on March 26, 2019, 01:21:17 PM
https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,13311.msg131303.html#msg131303

Created by Hetzen, it works on a global scale rather than locally - and the settings are adjustable.  Hope this helps!
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Upon Infinity on March 27, 2019, 04:46:23 AM
I tried, I think the 'smoothing filter', in Surface Layer (if that's what you meant, Dune).  Seems to be working.
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Upon Infinity on March 27, 2019, 04:54:35 AM
Okay, the smoothing isn't playing nice with my populations.
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Dune on March 27, 2019, 07:07:07 AM
No, I meant the smoothing filter in other shaders. And you need to sit your pops on the last shader if you use smoothing in a surface shader like in displacement intersection.
Title: Re: Smoothing a landscape out.
Post by: Upon Infinity on March 27, 2019, 07:39:56 AM
Being new to the smoothing question, I'm not sure what other shaders have a smoothing filter.  The current results are acceptable, however. Rerouting the pop through the smoothed shader fix my problem though.  Thanks, again.