the clown sidewalk

[SHCanada2]

I have a house in which there is a sidewalk which from east to west declines, so I put in elevation lines reflecting that. But the terrain on the house inclines from the sidewalk and the customer wants retaining walls and what not. When I try and add regions or lines to shape the lawn area, the sidewalk becomes a clown show.

 

I put a narrow elevation region on either side of the retaining wall, which helps but that is not the best in real life because it should follow the slope of the sidewalk (as opposed to a fixed elevation)

 

Any advice?

 

[Gawdzira]

The video posted by @Mark3D in this thread has a great clarification on how to get good results by simplifying and avoiding overlapping data.

 

[SHCanada2]

interestingly, I thought I saw a different video of his on another thread and added a question today, but now I cannot find it. Maybe the author deleted it.

 

Anyway, this one was helpful. I don't have any overlapping data but if I change the terrain surface smoothing to low or linear, that makes it better. Ironically I changed early on to be high, to fix another issue.  So I will need to see if that issue comes back.

 

He had an interesting tidbit that sometimes the elevation line cannot be too close to an elevation region, presumably if the elevation differences are too much.  But I'm not sure what the other option would be.

 

the clown show is better:

[Mark3D]

Share your plan you should get a solution

[Michael_Gia]

I would love to be able to create my terrain using 3D solids and then, simply convert 3D solid to terrain.

[DBCooper]

Just build it that way IRL.  I think the kids in the neighborhood will love it!