I am in the process of reconstructing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. Like most of my projects, this is going to take months. I used Adobe Illustrator to establish a map of the island, then exported as a ping and loaded it into the Vue 7.20-40 xStream 64-bit terrain editor as an 8000x8000 terrain. The results are promising. I’ll be updating this thread as the project develops.

 

I plan to create most of the city by using an ecosystem consisting of huts, crops and trees. I’ll need to learn how to place ecosystems with masks. Also, I want the roads to be material masks. I’m pretty sure this is possible, although I haven’t learned to do it yet, but if you can use a mask in GeoControl to turn a portion of terrain into a water material, you should be able to use road masks to place the pavement.

 

There is a glitch in my build of Vue that can cause an ecosystem to disappear if you try to modify its elements after it has been created. Has this been corrected in Vue 7.4? Naturally, with this sort of project, losing an ecosystem would be annoying if not disastrous and it would be worth downloading 7.4 if it will stop this. 

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