2008 Sep. 23
Manually Editing Terrain to improve detail
Now you've got the basic part going, we're going to focus on details. In this tutorial, we are going to take a closer look at our terrain in order to make a nice looking beach.
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In the Rollup bar, click on the terrain icon, then on Modify. In the previous tutorial, we painted an Alphamap directly, meaning it was very rough terrain design. The Terrain Modify menu in the Rollup bar lets you edit the terrain with a much higher level of detail. On you have the menu open in the Rollup Bar, look at the Brush Settings area. This is where you wil specify how you want to alter the terrain (a first drop list lets you flatten, smooth, raise or lower the terrain when clicking with the mouse). Adjust the last settings to increase / decrease the radius of the modification, it's density (hardness) and the amplitude of the change (height). After a couple of minutes, here's a nice smooth slops with a couple of ridges on the sea shore :
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