More advanced tutorials on editing terrain

[SamTMR]

Hi everyone,

Could anybody please direct me to somewhere that I can learn how to edit the terrain once you have created it in Sandbox. I have googled and you-tubed, but have not managed to find what I’m after. I understand the way to create a terrain from contours, but once I need to put my house on the terrain, I am struggling to edit the face correctly, for example: cutting the terrain to add retaining walls, battering the earth for a driveway to meet gradient requirements, cut & fill for building platforms at different levels etc. I suppose I’m after some sort of advance training on this.
Thanks in advance
Sam

PS I am a very visual person so any links to videos would be sooo much help :slight_smile:

[Rich O Brien]

SketchUp's Smoove, Stamp and Drape tools are your friends for this.

They already have extensive docs on using these.

For additional terrain rework try Artisan or Vertex Tools.

[pbacot]

Another great tool for terrain to be used instead of Sandbox for skinning is Fredo's Toposhaper.

A good start if you have not seen it is an older video by Daniel Tal on 3d basecamp. Daniel has produced a lot of SU teaching materials, much of it regarding terrain work. You can search his blogs, videos, and books. I can't find my favorite basecamp video right now.

Valiarchitects has some good tools if you are looking for plugins for roads, walls, and buildings. I also use Artisan and Vertex tools for this work.