Making roads

[john5d]

How do you make roads in Terragen? Or is there a plug in or another software that can do that?

Something like these:
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/new-releases/scenic-road-for?item=9199&cat=421&_m=d

Thanks
John

[rcallicotte]

Besides using objects (probably not very practical in most cases), maybe there's a way to use masking. 

old_blaggard has a tutorial around here somewhere about creating a road.  Look in the tutorial section or the TG2 documentation.

[Cyber-Angel]

Here it is http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=563

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel

[jaf]

Also you could look at World Machine 2 (  http://www.world-machine.com/  ). There's a feature tour at that link.

I haven't tried the insert road feature yet -- I'm interested in creating the old "two track" dirt road -- but WM2 seems to be a good companion software to TG2.

[cyphyr]

I think the question here is how much road can you really see. The two track road to me means the kind of track with grass growing up the middle and two ruts where the cart wheels go. If you doing a road like that then I would also assume that you'll be quite close to the track so you'll not see that much distance. If thats the case then a simple image map projected in the y axis should do the trick. As it dissapears in to the distance there will be little detail to really see so again a simple imagemap should suffice. Remember to keep your scene in scale and you should not run into too many problems.
Good luck

Richard

[john5d]

Thank you guys.
I'll take a look at tutorials.

[jaf]

Richard -- yes, that's the type of road I'm thinking of.

I've read of many different ways to get this effect so I've got to start doing the "learning and work".

Here's a photo of the area I'm trying to model:

[Oshyan]

For that I reckon simple painted shaders with sharp edges on the brush might work pretty well. Worth a try...

- Oshyan