Having one HELL of a time with LOD Terrain

*GCC*Nigel · Post by *GCC*Nigel » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:28 pm

HELP! I'm trying to make a very VERY simple ditch. Just a ditch. For referance, the kind you put animals in at a zoo. I can't get the ditch to have a nice, relatively smooth base. I tried the .tga image thing and always got some flat thing. Tried manipulating the LOD with the verticies and always got a pointed bottom, and for the heck of it tried the simple patch mesh, that was actually easier, but still didn't work. Any advice, tips, tricks? Anything? I need help making a ditch. I feel so dumb.

k47a · Post by **k47a** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:41 pm

Select the vertices around the ditch and lock them (LOD Terrain --> lock/unlock vertices; they'll be green when locked); then select the vertices on the botton you want to be smooth and drag them down all together, so they'll all have the same height. is that what you mean?

neillomax · Post by **neillomax** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:05 pm

I don't use lod terrain much, but, what if you put a solid, flat brush in the bottom after using lod terrain, or better yet, just use brushwork. You can use the clipper tool to make wedges for the side, do a brush for the bottom, and miter your corners. Seems it would be simpler and easier for you to do that.

k47a · Post by **k47a** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:18 pm

Making a ditch is much easier with LOD than with clipped brushes, and it looks loads better and smoother too... Don't be as scared of LOD as i was when i started with mapping

Maybe you check out some tutorials, like the one on manstein's site
*edit* there was also a good vid tut on LOD, the site is down i think, but i still got it somewhere, so give me a shout if you should need it.