Edit Terrain

Adjust the slope, texture and height of terrain.

Contents

Edit Terrain

Raise and Lower Terrain Handles

Select Multiple Handles

Flatten Selected Handles

Create a Slope

Toggle Wireframe

Reset Terrain

Change Terrain Material

Terrain and Editing Speed

Edit Terrain

Choose Edit Terrain to enable terrain editing mode - you'll see red handles on the ground surface when enabled.

Keyboard Shortcut: U

Raise and Lower Terrain Handles

Using the mouse, click-and-drag on red handles up and down to desired height. Drag handles below ground level to show water:

Note: Wireframe was enabled to illustrate this better.

Select Multiple Handles

Select multiple handles by clicking in the area between them and dragging marquee around the ones you want to select. Selected handles turn blue.

Hold down shift when clicking red handles to add them to the current selection. Shift-click blue handles to de-select them.

Raising or lowering one blue handle does the same to the others.

Flatten Selected Handles

To flatten a selected blue handle or group of handles, right click terrain and choose "Flatten Selected Handles".

Create a Slope

To create a slope select a group of handles where part of the handles are higher then the others. The in-between handles will be sloped from high to low handles.

1. Select a range of handles between the high and low points.

2. Right-click on the terrain and choose "Slope Selected Terrain." A slope will be created as shown below.

Example:

Toggle Wireframe

In terrain editing mode right-click ground and choose "Toggle Wireframe." This helps see the terrain elevations better - especially if lights are off.