I want a mountain shape - as in something low on the edges that rises in the center to a peak.

The moutain filter in the terrain editor keeps giving me wavy shapes with high edges, low edges, high and low middles, and no central peak. I'm gettings 'W's and 'M's - wrinked tin-foil - and I want a '^'.

Can Carrara do a mountain, and if so what do I do to get it?

Message edited on: 01/29/2006 16:36

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Add a Zero Edge filter -- it forces zero altitude edges. This will make it much easier to force single central peaks with edges that start from the base. Play with the Feature Size slider, then push the Shuffle button until you get a close approximation of the peak terrain you desire.

Just play. Then you can go to the Map Editor and paint features. It will collapse your filters, but you can apply new ones after you do the Map Editor.

One of these methods will let me make large regions of terrain, and the other single mountain pieces. So, which is recommended if what I desire is a mountain chain in the disatnce? In Vue I would have made a bunch of pieces of terrain and tossed them into the background - Vue does peaks better than the mountains and valleys that Carrara does. But Carrara seems to do these mountains and valleys rather well, and I'm wondering if I should just make a super-giant ( :) ) one of those and stick my scene in the middle of it.

When in the terrain editor....change the World Size...shrink it down & you can get exactly the same as in Vue. The 1 mountain type thing.

See Ringo's thread above. NO-ONE should play with terrains until they have thoroughly read that Rosenberg tute. Probably the best ever Carrara tute.

Message edited on: 01/29/2006 20:21

I think you might want to get a little deeper into C5Pro terrain modeling before assuming Vue does better? I have quite the opposite view, and sometimes save grayscale C5Pro maps, and import them into Vue5I, because of C5Pros more accurate control. C5Pros Terrain modeler is a bit more complex to learn -- more features.