Road Test

[Gus R]

Finally honed down a process for creating quads on a roadway surface on terrain in Sketchup. It mostly involved Vertex Tools, Fredo’s Curviloft and Thrupaint.

The terrain is just a random surface I created with SU’s native tools and Smoove. It’s a variation on what I learned from a video by 3D Artistree on Youtube.

Mostly involved SU work and I hope I can remember every step I used.

This is a D5 Render.

[Mike Amos]

So cool, frozen mate.

[Gus R]

@mike amos said:

So cool, frozen mate.

Thanks Mike. Saved me from doing 100 entry inputs on Blender. I really wanted to get this down for once.

[L i am]

Very nice work Gus, I should watch the tutorial

[HornOxx]

...prima!

[ntxdave]

@l i am said:

Very nice work Gus, I should watch the tutorial

Agree!

[Gus R]

Thanks guys.

You'll need:

Sandbox Tools
Vertex Tools
Fredo Curviloft
Align Ends
Fredo Thru Paint

Quadface Tools to add more loops. Optional.

Profile Builder 3 for guardrails. Optional.

Sandbox tools is default SU. I just used SU arcs for the roadway plan.

If you're interesed in D5 you should be able to do something similar with their free version.

I'm going to put together a narrative as soon as I can for what I did.

[Bryan K]

The road surface looks very real.

[marked001]

These are really awesome..thanks for sharing.