Terrain Modifiy

 

Overview

The Modify Terrain pane allows you to create, modify and delete terrain by changing the brush parameters and various effects created. The Modify Terrain tutorial can be found here. 

Terrain Modify Commands

 

 

Type

The type of terrain modification brush use to edit your terrain can be set here. Flatten will flatten the terrain to a given height and diameter. Smooth will smooth over sharp gradients and Rise/Lower increase or decrease terrain height. 

Outside Radius

The outer edge of the area of effect of your terrain modification brush. 

Inside Radius

The inner edge of the area of effect of your terrain modification brush. Within this radius the effect of the brush is at its maximum, between the outer edge of the inner radius and the outer edge of the outer radius the effect decreases. 

Hardness

How strong the effect of the brush is, the higher the value, the stronger the effect. 

Height

The height at which your brush will modify terrain. 

Enable Noise

Enables/disables random terrain variance effect in the brush. 

Scale

The strength of the noise effect, a higher scale will give more noise. 

Frequency

How often the noise effect is applied. 

The image below shows terrain created with noise (on the left) and without (on the right). 

 

Reposition Objects

Checking this check box will re-align objects with any terrain edited, keeping it on the top.