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duke

08-09-2005, 02:26 AM

Right now I think I'll just do it by manually building geometry along the contour lines, however after googling for a bit I came across some function in max called "make terrain" or something, which builds a terrain mesh from contour data in a dwg. Is there a way to do this kind of thing in LW or is there a 3rd party program for it?

Thanks.

zuzzabuzz

08-09-2005, 12:33 PM

Try applying Texture Displacement to a subpatched plane in Layout. Use a grayscale image for the texture.

dobermunk

08-09-2005, 01:11 PM

Marvin Landis has some great landscape tools: http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/

Might fit the bill.

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