Difference between revisions of "Landscape"

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Flatten Vertices has a minimum radius, which is not documented or indicated in the editor.
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*'''Height'''
*'''Height'''
**'''Edit Radius:''' Controls size of the editing brush. Can also be controlled with "[" and "]".
**'''Edit Radius:''' Controls size of the editing brush. Can also be controlled with "[" and "]".
{{WarningBox|'''Do not use a brush radius larger than 25!''' Not only can this cause the Creation Kit to crash, it also can create large "tears" between cell borders that must be smoothed or flattened.}}
{{WarningBox|The Flatten Vertices tool has a minimum radius of about 5 or 6. If your current Edit Radius is lower, the Creation Kit will treat the value as 5 or 6 without warning or notifying you.}}
**'''Edit Falloff %:''' Controls the softness/hardness of the edge of the editing brush. Can also be controlled with "Shift + [" and "Shift + ]".
**'''Edit Falloff %:''' Controls the softness/hardness of the edge of the editing brush. Can also be controlled with "Shift + [" and "Shift + ]".
**'''Flatten Vertices:''' When checked; Brush will flatten terrain.
**'''Flatten Vertices:''' When checked; Brush will flatten terrain.
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**'''Show Edit Radius:''' When checked; Brush Radius appears in the Render Window.
**'''Show Edit Radius:''' When checked; Brush Radius appears in the Render Window.
*'''Drawing Mode''' When in Drawing mode, holding down Left-Click will sculpt terrain changes wherever the cursor is moved.
*'''Drawing Mode''' When in Drawing mode, holding down Left-Click will sculpt terrain changes wherever the cursor is moved.
**'''Value Field:''' Specify in positive or negative units the value for various Drawing Modes.
**'''Value Field:''' Specify in positive or negative [[unit|units]] the value for various Drawing Modes.
**'''Raise To/By:''' Raises terrain at or below the initially clicked terrain height by the number of units specified in the Value Field.
**'''Raise To/By:''' Raises terrain at or below the initially clicked terrain height by the number of [[unit|units]] specified in the Value Field.
**'''Lower To/By:''' Lowers terrain at or above the initially clicked terrain height by the number of units specified in the Value Field.
**'''Lower To/By:''' Lowers terrain at or above the initially clicked terrain height by the number of [[unit|units]] specified in the Value Field.
**'''Delta:''' Increase/Decrease height by Value Field amount.
**'''Delta:''' Increase/Decrease height by Value Field amount.
**'''Absolute Height:''' Used with Raise To and Lower To to set the landscape height to the value specified in the Value Field.
**'''Absolute Height:''' Used with Raise To and Lower To to set the landscape height to the value specified in the Value Field.
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**'''Max Opacity:''' Controls Strength of brush when painting texture.
**'''Max Opacity:''' Controls Strength of brush when painting texture.
**'''Applying Textures:''' Right click on the terrain to apply the selected texture. "Ctrl + Right-Click" in the render window to select a texture already applied to the heightmap.
**'''Applying Textures:''' Right click on the terrain to apply the selected texture. "Ctrl + Right-Click" in the render window to select a texture already applied to the heightmap.
{{WarningBox|'''You can only use 6 different textures in a cell!''' Any more texture will appear black on top of all others. To remove a texture, go into the Landscape editing window and press 'i' in the cell you want to remove the texture. Then you choose the texture you want to remove and press DEL.}}
*'''Vertex Color:''' Clicking the Edit Colors checkbox switches to Color Painting Mode. This allows painting of color tints on the heightmap vertices.
*'''Vertex Color:''' Clicking the Edit Colors checkbox switches to Color Painting Mode. This allows painting of color tints on the heightmap vertices.
**'''RGB:''' Manual entry of Left/Right-click Shading colors.
**'''RGB:''' Manual entry of Left/Right-click Shading colors.
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