I am chugging along, learning Terragen, and just discovered the camera views button (which the Wiki doc says is 2nd from the
right, when it's actually 2nd from
left. Talk about yer initiative tests!
). As a Blender maven, I'm accustomed to the different views -- top, left, right, etc. -- all being pinnable to whatever is selected; you press the full stop key on the numpad, and, whichever view you're in, the view zooms to whatever is selected.
Now that I want to teach myself about populating, I want to create a distribution layer so I can add objects to the region where I want to set up my scene. I happen to have found my ideal site at x = roughly -6400m. Now, in order to put my distribution layer where I want it, I select Top View ... and I don't know where I am. The view does not correspond to where I was "standing" in perspective view. If I'm reading the info correctly under the preview, I'm at xyz = 0,0,0. How do I snap the top view to the place where the render camera is? Or where the lone tree is that I intend to populate with?
I hope that question is clear. The views I'm talking about are not render views (unless I make it so via the leftmost button under the preview), but the orthographic alternate views. Maybe there's another way of approaching the placement of populations, in which case please educate me!