Autumn1 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 I have never needed terrain B4 since always dealt with flat lots. Now I have jumped right to extreme. A mountain hillside. I have more or less figured out how to model a 25' steep slope site except for the "building pad". In real life a roughly 75x90' flat pad was "bulldozed" out of the hillside by pushing ALL the "fill" forward across the hill leaving a huge pile of dirt off to one side. Thought it would be easy to use Ter. Modifier "Flat Reg. cut/fill" tool to replicate this. It appears that CA always "bulldozes" 1/2 of the dirt UP the hill and 1/2 of dirt downhill. The downhill "pile of dirt" creates a very steep 45-50' slope on the edge that then joins the hills 25' slope. IF I could just push the flat region strait back into the hillside and not have the pile of dirt on edge on down slope it would be perfect. Am I using the wrong modifier or ? ALSO - since the pad is not a perfect rectangle I thought converting it to a spline would make it more realistic. However that seems to create more problems like tiny "valleys" in the "fill dirt piles"! I have tired adding a few terrain point at -12" and they help mellow out the "tiny valleys" but not enough! Like I don't struggle enough with CA. Terrain making me feel pretty stupid! Seems like "less is more" since at first I tried to place Terrain Splines as if they were Topo Contour Lines. CA created some really exciting "rock climbs"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDesign Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Less is more when dealing with terrain elevation data. Also if you place 2 elevation lines 12" apart this will stop the terrain at that elevation. So if you place a pair in front of your building pad area and 2 at the rear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark3D Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Post your file you should get some help more focused that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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