How do I turn a plane into a hilly terrain?

[musashidan]

Depends on how detailed you want to take it.Displacement maps and paint deformation are two ways.

[scrimski]

If you need displaced geoemetry,you can use a noise modifer or a displacement modifier.

[BenCole]

eleborating on what everyone else has said...

you could achieve this in many ways:

1 - add a displace modifier to a plane, add a noise map (or smoke map for more detailed looking hills) in the map slot, set the strength up and what hills appear

2 - make a plane with many segments, add an edit mesh modifier, select a vertice where you want a hill, check soft selection and adjust the falloff to about how large you want the hill, then just move the vertice up. repeat for more hills

3 - make a plane with many segment, add an edit poly modifier, scroll down in the modify tab to 'paint deformation.' select push/pull, adjust brush size, and simply click on your plane to paint on hills

4 - you can also just add a 'noise modifier' ro a plane to acheive results like #1, just add strength on the Z axis

good luck

[stage-gr]

...and if you feel like going a step further than hills and decide to make a canyon (http://www.3d-palace.com/xenomorphic/education/images/canyon_screenshot32.jpg) take a look at this great tutorial (http://www.3d-palace.com/xenomorphic/education/doc_canyon.htm) that Pete Draper has made.

[blank]

or another very simple way, turn on soft selection and move a vertex up on your plane and others should follow depending on the soft selections area of influence.

will work for Edit mesh/edit poly/ or Patch

[mykhel]

I like the patch and soft selection solution.

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