Filling gaps in a terrain
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Funny, I've tried to use an offset of zero on countless different occasions and I couldn't. I just checked and I could.
On another thread someone asked about the maximume pixel size of an export and said he couldn't get it past 4000. I said it was 9999 and set out to prove it, and then I couldn't. I tried with 7000 and I couldn't. Tried it with 5000 and I couldn't. Then I tried it with a different model and I had no problem with 7000, didn't try 9999. I wonder what it is at work here, that sometimes an offset of zero works and others it does not? -
No, Susan, it's not offsetting here - I've never tried but it would make sense not to be able to do it because then why to at all? (like you cannot scale anything to 0 either). This is the stamp tool in the sandbox: you can adjust the steepness of the connecting sides from the terrain to the flat, stamped surface. By hitting 0 before stamping, you can make it as a pit or a box popping out of the TIN.
There are problems however:
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Edson wanted to "dig" his house partly into the hill but obviously did not want a cliff on the other side. You cannot individually adjust the slopes.
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If the sides of the pit I posted were really just verical, they should be coplanar as well and the hidden (actually smoothen) lines could be deleted but this is not the case.
So this needs some more examination (and from now on it should rather be in the Pro Forum but Edson posted some similar problem there, too...)
As for images, I once tried he extremes and challanged a 9999 pixel wide TIF. You can imagine!
The biggest I needed was 3500 x 3500 pixels but I could not get it with textures and shadows on with AA so I had it with no shadows. The contractor was still happy (he'll eventually get 3DS Max renderings anyway...) -
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That's what I'm saying Gaieus, I was never able to before. But today I could. How odd.
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Maybe your computer was not hung over today...
It is probably up to the hardware anyway but I don't need too big resolutions now so I don't care. The next will be some 1500x1050 pixel things but that's just a snap for today (I'll need all those section cuts and everything I don't want to bother with now at night).
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gai, understood perfectly. thanks.
however, my first question is still unanswered: how to fill those gaps? or how to add to a rolling surface?
regards to all.
edson
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Edson,
First of all I'd probably turn hidden geometry on, then depending on the nature of the TIN there (which cannot be seen in the pic) there are more possibilities. We'd probably need the skp file to say more (or to fix it).
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@gaieus said:
Edson,
We'd probably need the skp file to say more (or to fix it).there you have it: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Newbie/terreno_clubhouse.skp
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Edson, I restitched the terrain (more or less as it could have been in the original). There are still some lines there - you can delete them if you wish (I did not want because you may still want them). The link to the model
Is this what you wanted?
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@gaieus said:
Edson, I restitched the terrain. Is this what you wanted?
yes! thank you very much.
could you please tell me how you did it? like they say, better than giving the fish away is teaching how to get it from the sea.
cheers.edson
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Simply hand-stitched. Tried to follow the dotted (smoothed) lines where possible to regain the original terrain - at some places I had to "improvise" though.
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this thread was very, very helpful. you guys opened my eyes to a number of features that i was not aware of. i had a look at the manual just to make sure i got the whole picture. thank you all.
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okay, I found out what is happening with the zero offset. When I type in the zero, SketchUp appears to accept it, except if you zoom in on the selected offset, it is clear that it is not behaving as if it were zero. In fact it appears to create an offset of 1 despite the fact that the VCB shows 0.
If I type in .001 that is accepted and the offset might as well be zero.
Dylan, I wonder if you could test this on your machine. Is that the result that you were really getting? -
Hi Susan,
Well I tried this test a little more closely and you are correct, you cannot use 0.
If I use zero, it does work, but to a default of 25mm. On a large drawing you probably would not see this but close up you can.If I type in 0.001 as you suggested then it will not work, but 0.1 does.
So if I wish to have a zero offset in the future, then 0.1 it will be - a tenth of a millimetre is good enough for me
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i had the same problem. while trying the zero offset, it kept returning to the default value. as soon as i put something more than zero it worked.
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