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Hi,

First of all, sorry for these lame questions of mine, I never really did map with patches or LOD terrain...

I've got a little piece of terrain, and I'd like to turn this into a trench (this picture is with terran shading turned on so that you can see it's not flat):

But if I select individual patches, they're a bit too big...

And as an effect I get this (pretty sh*tty, huh? ):

I thought of making an overlapping patch, but I'm sure there's a better and simpler way... Am I right?

And yeah, I know the grass and road textures don't match, but I don't care at the moment.

Rookie One

If it were me I would "delete" those areas of the lod (If I were to use lod terrain) and construct the trenches out of brushes and meshes in that location.

Hit the spot with that advice Gen, or just put the LoD down more and use overlapping meshes

General Death wrote:If it were me I would "delete" those areas of the lod (If I were to use lod terrain) and construct the trenches out of brushes and meshes in that location.

yep. good example would be the Omaha beach trenches (obj_team3)

if you want good curvy trenches just use the patch (make sure it is aligned to grid )
(lol sounds like birth contol )

Something like this

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I guess my first idea was the best (least work to do - I'm such a lazy bastard... ), then...

how u u even make terran and were could i get that patch

See the tutorial section before asking questions in the forum.

KmasterC wrote:how u u even make terran and were could i get that patch

Try going here and watching all of the Tut's
http://www.carbongraphx.com/mohaa/vidtuts.html

is it possible to onlt select the little triangles of LOD? I coulda sworn ive done it before but I dont remeber how I did it?

[HDL]-{Gen} Dragon wrote:is it possible to onlt select the little triangles of LOD? I coulda sworn ive done it before but I dont remeber how I did it?

You go to "Edit facet flags" in the "LOD terrain" menu to get the "Edit facet flags dialog". Make sure the "Select all facets in patch" button is not pressed in. Now you should be able to select individual facets in the LOD by holding CTRL+SHIFT+left mouse button.

Simpe eh? ( man, what were they thinking when they decided on that chain of commands? )

Oh, and remember to select the "Color surface flags" under the "LOD terrain" menu so that you can actually see the changes you make to the LOD...

thnx