Buffer Lines
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It's a long way from my normal usage, but it strikes me perhaps a texture will suit your purpose, and Fredo's Thrupaint should help you apply it to non flat surfaces.
I may be wrong tho.
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Thank you for your suggestions. Dave I will have to play with your option, I can't "picture" it in my head right now. A texture won't work, as there are lanes merging into each other, and the lane widths change. If it were that easy, I would have done that in the beginning.
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Ryan, I was only wondering about a texture for the center line. Maybe alternating white and the asphalt color.
Do you need help with the projection thing?
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Dave it would be great if you could help. A texture makes sense for the line, I thought you referring to a texture with the asphalt and lines in as one texture.
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Ryan, take a look at the attached and see if that along with the following description would help.
From the origin:
- The centerline of your road drawn on the terrain.
- Projected down to a face using Didier Bur's Projection Tools.
- Use Offset to create the limits for the white lines. I only did the outer lines and should have done another on each side for the edge of the asphalt.
- Project the new lines back up to the terrain. You could use Push/Pull and then Intersect Faces for that.
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Dave thank you, and this looks awesome. So let me ask you this. My highways and ramps are as components (a series of faces) not a terrain. Will this matter?
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Are they just the center lines now?
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They would be the edge lines and a number of center lines, as some parts are three lane highways. I may have a way to do it, I will need to try it out. This is where a straight buffer of lines would be great, even if it had to be extruded 1mm to eliminate the Z buffer fighting.
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I guess I would just look to see what can be done using offset from tools on surface and maybe using the projection as I mentioned. It might be better to intersect the roads with the terrain so you don't have to worry about z-fighting. If your model covers a large area a few millimeters may not be enough to counteract the z-fighting.
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Dave would it be ok if I shared the model with you? To be honest, I am not following what you are recommending. I can't get my head around it in my situation. I have a Dropbox and Google Drive account that I could post it on.
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You can send me small example. I'll try to get some time to look at it.
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