Use these tools and concepts to create and place the geometry according to the images found in the downloads folder on the Computer Graphics shared drive

Object List

Name all your objects!

Window Navigation

• Mouse roller - Zoom
• Mouse roller + ALT -

VERY useful hotkeys

• Q - select
• W - move
• E - rotate
• R - scale
• Z - centers selected object
• X - toggles transform gizmo
• F4 - toggles wireframe visibility
• J - toggles bracket visibility
• G - toggles grid visibility
• H - select-by-name dialog
• Space Bar - freezes selection

Plan your terrain with camera views and angles in mind. Cameras will be positioned low to avoid seeing the edge of the plane. Distant hills and mountains along the plane edge will hide it from view.

• 1. Create a plane
  • Set both Length and Width to 700
  • Set both Length Segs and Width Segs to 200

Consider multiple planes for water, mountains and hills

• 2 - Convert plane to an Editable Poly (Right click selected plane/convert to Editable Poly)
  • Select/move vertices
    • Select region options
    • soft selection
  • Paint deformation

or/and use . . .

• 3 - Modifiers
  • Noise
  • Displace
    • Height maps

add . . .

• 4 - Materials
  • Diffuse color
  • Diffuse map

and select a . . .

• 5 -Background
  • Color
  • Image

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