How do you increase the terrain resolution to more accurately display while in the view window? For instance, I've made terrains with various flat areas and want to position buildings on them - but the buildings won't automatically drop to the area, and the terrain wireframe displays very blocky, so it's impossible to tell where I'm actually putting the object.

I've poked around in every dialog box and setting, also gone through help files, and am just blind - it's gotta be there. Or, is it an add-on that you have to buy to get this? Using Vue 7 Scifi.

Thanks!

Vue8 introduced a completely new terrain editor, where you can see the scene objects inside the terrain editor itself. That's excellent. Unfortunetaly, before Vue8, you just have to do trial and error.

Anyway, in Vue7 you could increase the display quality in File -> Options -> Display options -> increase instant draw and background draw.
You could also increase the terrain resolution (in the terrain editor, click on the 'x2' icon).

Rutra, thank you so much - that did it!

Yeah, I wish I had waited just a month, I bought Vue 7 about 3 weeks before 8 came out. :( The terrain sculpting looks really cool for doing overhangs. I'll probably upgrade this spring once I learn more.

If you bought it 3 weeks before Vue came out then you should get a free upgrade as far as I remember. Might be worth asking them to check!

Good luck
Jon

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Good. :-)

Yeah, but the modules upgrade price didn't sit well with me, it would have cost another couple hundred to upgrade those.

But - I am finding out I probably want to go with the Infinite or XStream version rather than Pioneer and upgrading module-by-module. So I'm probably just going to save up for that rather than upgrade my modules, it seems to me it will only cost a little bit more plus I'll have some added tools with Infinite.