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| Posted by jasan at Dec 24, 2012, 10:40:29 PM |
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Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? Hi, I'm working on a project where a large part goes into building a 3d model of the landscape surronding the house. I have been working with basic shapes (triangle + boxes). However, this has quite a few limitations, to name a few; * You are limited to regtangle spaces and 90 degres corners, making it hard to replicate "reality". * You end up with quite a few objects to describe a structure. Is there any better way of doing this? One solution would off course be to add a complete new object; a 3d polygon that allows you to insert new "breakpoints" and move these in x,y and z -axis. Just as an example is a typical map of a new plot of land that could be 100x100 sqm in that plot may there be 25 measured spots that indicate hight. It would be great to first just insert a "standard box" and the insert these 25 measured points and let the z axis be altered. That would give a very basic 3d structure that would describe that land area. BR |
| Posted by Lynn22 at Dec 27, 2012, 8:43:41 AM |
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Re: Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? Could you describe the kind of terrain you want to create in your project or maybe give a link to an image representing your idea. The reason I'm asking is that the use of non-flat terrains is a recurring question and I'm working on a test case to try and solve this in a general way, something that might work in many situations. Thanks |
| Posted by jasan at Dec 29, 2012, 12:28:13 AM |
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Re: Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? I would be happy to send you my complete project. Please send a pm with an email (if this is ok with you). Basically I would just like to represent the difference in height in the terrain around the house (in the plot that I have bought) and some areas that is "connected" to the plot, like a nearby road etc. BR |
| Posted by mjsweetland at Jun 30, 2014, 9:34:19 AM |
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Re: Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? Hello, Is there any progress on the 3D polygon idea? I have been trying for some time to produce ground terrain using box's and triangle's, but the results are not very good. A 3D polygon, or other terrain editor would be an VERY useful feature. |
| Posted by Puybaret at Jun 30, 2014, 4:53:56 PM |
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Re: Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? Some time ago, OK Hoff proposed a few 3D models that could help. But these are still only workarounds. I understand it would be a nice feature, but this is complex to program, and I recall you that Sweet Home 3D is first an interior design program, meaning this kind of task isn't on my top priority list. But who knows, if ever I got a nice idea... ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by mjsweetland at Jul 1, 2014, 7:31:24 PM |
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Re: Best way to create terrain? 3d polygons? Dear Mr Puybaret, Thank you for your kind reply, I do quite understand that Sweet Home 3D is primarily an interior design program, and obviously external terrain will be of low priority. I would like to thank you for your reference to OK Hoff suggestions, I have checked the link's to OK Hoff and downloaded the various shapes and example files. These are very helpful and informative, they have given me several idea's and workarounds and I have been able to create much more realistic external terrain My sincere thanks to you for creating such a great program |
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