In the past I've used terragen and 3dem to help make importable TIN files too. Didier has also written a greyscale.bmp importer that will import a greyscale bmp file in as a 3d terrain mesh. I think there are lots of exciting fun things to do in the TIN area of SU. I have not used global mapper before though, I should like to check it out. Thanks for the info on it Charly,

Chris

This is really strange, indeed. Can any of your keyboard keys (or mouse button/wheel) be stuck?

HI Gaieus

Unfortunately I am not familiar with Vue. Currently, I am reasonably happy that I understand Kerkythea a little bit. I also have problems to create a good texture for the terrain. The whole scene should look more natural. Till now i'm not yet really satisfied with the results.

Perhaps someone would render the model in Vue. I would be interested how the model looks perfectly rendered. I would like to make it available for it. The model can be downloaded from the following link:

http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=92BB996813

Karlheinz

haha duh on my part (was equating "i" to inches as "m" to meters)

Hmm, this sets the actual size of the object. I was looking for an additive distance. So typing in 256" on a 512x512 object will make it 512x768. Instead it makes it 512x256.

😕

Actually, Fredo6's Scale shows unit measurements in a tooltip manner, so it's closer to a solution!

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17948

Hi,

i don't know if it was posted before, i found at the Spiral Graphics page a free Viewer with a high resulation texture library. The textures can also be modified. In the free version the resolution is limited to 2048 x 2048 pixel, but i think that enough. The terrain texture in the image below is from this´viewer.

Karlheinz

WIP

but the conservation officer would never allow a developement up there, it would ruin the horizon line! 😮

Thanks Karlheinz, this may come handy for a lot of folks.

I'm moving it to the Components/Materials/Styles forum so that it won't sink so easily.

Vielen Dank Tom2, für die Erklärung und die Textur. Ich werde es mal ausprobieren.

Gruß

Karlheinz

Hi d12dozr,

i use Kerkythea.

another video 😉

Two posts above you Tig has given you the link.

Dear Tomasz,

thanks for the fast reply. The result of ENV['PATH'] is nil. Sorry that i not mentioned my system. I'm working with a PC and WIN XP SP3. I tried SU2KT Version 3.0 ,3.05 and 3.1 beta. Below the messages which are shown when i Started export in SU6/7.

Karlheinz

Bild2.jpg

Bild4.jpg

Hi Pichuneke,

thanks for your efforts but i couldn't install the program. Do you have some screen shots from works you have done with this program? to give me an impression.

Karlheinz

@solo said:

Another example of how I do it

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1566/terrainpasting.jpg

hi!..a have a little question.

The top view of the mountain, that texture, you did´t all whit Photoshop?

Tks for the help!

Hi Chris, Hi Thomas,

in my brain it seemed clear to me. But to express it in english is a little bit difficult. Please be a little forbearingly with me.

I try to explain the theoratical workflow:

Manually creation of a road line above the terrain on a flat plane.

Calculation of height points along this line on the terrain (Ruby?).

Projecting the calculated points (may be as a line) on a perpendiculare face (unfolded height profile of the terrain) (Ruby?).

Manually creation of the road height profile depending on the height profile of the terrain on this face or on new one (3.).

Calculation of the new road height points and creation of a line.(Ruby?)

Creation of the 3d road height line like it is done with shape bender (ruby).

The steps above are In principle the more automated steps of that what i did manually in the Quick Road tutorial as there are:

Manually creation of a road line above the terrain on a flat plane.

Taking a copy of this line and placed it below the terrain.

Creating of the terrain height profile using "Loft",

Intersecting the face with the terrain to get the height profile.

Manually take out a copy of the face.

Manually creation a perpendiculare face with help by "Unfold".

Manually creation of the road height profile by drawing a line on the same face.

Manually removing all Terrain height profile lines from this face.

Projecting road height profile line to a 3D Profile by "shape bender"

Karlheinz

After executing these 8 steps i reinstalled the driver but it was not successful. After a second deinstallation/reinstallation it worked without problems.

Hi Majid,

for shape bender, you need the road direction line from the first step. This i forget to mention.
Sorry that i answered a little late.

Karlheinz

Road tutorial.jpg

Thank you to all who answered,

today i tried it again with a copy of the line and it worked. this step belongs to a quick tutorial for road design.

If you are interested have a look here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19578

Comments are welcome

Karlheinz

Thankyou very much for this advise because i faced a problem with the method i used.
But after toggeling start and end point, the result shows some faults. I will correct them manually.

Karlheinz

There are no problems, only questions.

Alpen41.jpg

Alpen41.skp

Hi Karl, I'l take a look at it. I'm not terribly optimistic about making it though. I've got a long list of rubies to make/fix already. But I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up!

Chris