Hey,
I have a, hopefully, rather easy question. I made a terrain of mountains, and I now wanna have a road go through it. I've already painted the road using a shader, but now my question is what is the best way to flatten the terrain towards a height of my choosing (and possibly have the terrain next to it adjust smoothly to it).
Right now I have this, but as you can see the roads go over quite steep mountains. I'd love to push that down a little at those points. It doesn't need to be totally flat, but just flat enough. I'll need to do the same for the fences that'll be added later.
Quote from: Abyssinian02 on January 06, 2015, 08:12:31 PM
Hey,
I have a, hopefully, rather easy question. I made a terrain of mountains, and I now wanna have a road go through it. I've already painted the road using a shader, but now my question is what is the best way to flatten the terrain towards a height of my choosing (and possibly have the terrain next to it adjust smoothly to it).
Right now I have this, but as you can see the roads go over quite steep mountains. I'd love to push that down a little at those points. It doesn't need to be totally flat, but just flat enough. I'll need to do the same for the fences that'll be added later.
Dune shared a technique for cutting a road into a mountainside which may be helpful. Do a search for mountain road Subject and Dune as the member.
A more sophisticated method can be found at NWDA.
Hey Abyssinian,
Check out the "On the road" tutorial by Old Blaggard here:
http://planetside.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Terragen_2/3_Tutorials#Making_of_.22On_the_Road.22
It gives a nice overview on how to make a road that would cut through uneven terrain and make the transition between the road and land smooth. I remember that it can be done with color adjust shader, but it needs some tweaking to get the values right. I tried this method once. It's not bad actually.
After watching both the on the road tutorial and Dune's scene on how to make a road, I think I got the right anwser, but for some reason it's not working. Would anyone have any idea as to what I did wrong? I added the scene to this post.
Well I doubt we can help as the terrain is displaced by a map and it's not there, still in your computer. All the many maps you use don't show up in fact. Best bet would be to gather the project, then zip/rar the folder and file share that, It'll be too large to upload but I use either DropBox or sendSpace free file sharing.
Ah sorry, I hadn't thought of that. :-[ Goes to show you how much of a rookie I still am. Anyway, here are the files gathered.
Quote from: Abyssinian02 on January 07, 2015, 09:47:16 PM
Ah sorry, I hadn't thought of that. :-[ Goes to show you how much of a rookie I still am. Anyway, here are the files gathered.
Heh heh, happens to the best of us time to time. Thanks, I'll have a look tomorrow, near the end of a looooong day here.
Well this is as good as I can do. Can't figure a way to adapt Dune's set up to image maps but that would likely work. I think you need a Wizard like Dune :D in your corner on this. This is the Blue to Scalar in the displace tab slightly displaced(1 m. I think). The Green to Scalar on the mountain side seriously needs Dune's input to solve I think.