Creating a terrain by using the Sandbox Tool

[Puma06111991]

 

First you need to add the sandbox as a toolbar. Click in the menu on Window > Preferences. After that you go to “Extensions” and select the Sandbox tool.     Now the sandbox tool menu is added!     Here are the names of the different tools of the Sandbox-tool I’m going to use in this tutorial:     Ok, now to the part where I’m going to explain the tool. There are two ways to use it.

 

The first one is to create a plane by using the “From Scratch” tool:

 

NOTE: Don’t make the plane to big, the overload of faces could cause a crash!

 

 

The plane became a component. Doubleclick it to edit it. After that you click on the “Smoove” tool, point somewhere on an edge, push and hold your leftmousebutton and drag it up- or downwards:

 

NOTE: If you think the range of the Smoove tool is too small, just scale your plane (make it smaller)!

 

 

 

Now you can start drawing hills and valleys! My result:

 

 

The second way is to just draw a normal plane and draw vertical lines on it and select it all. By this way you can make a low-poly terrain.

 

 

Now just click on the “From contours” tool! My result:

 

 

‘hope You guys learned something of it . If you got any problems, questions, comments or what else just post it here or PM me.

 

Grtz Puma.

[GuerillaForce]

nice, i didnt know you could do that

[ZOMFG]

thanks a lot

 

[Sketchupmaster]

Hey guys. Thanks Puma66111991. I knew there was a sandbox just didnt know how to activate it.

[blacktitan1]

And how I can add this in SA?

[txdeditor]

This is AMAZING, it really helped me !

[mr. Joker34]

Friends, I was not able to

[Ruprecht]

8 months old bump...

Edited February 10, 2010 by Ruprecht