Road Tool Reference

What is the Road Tool?

The Road tool is a shape creation tool that allows the designer to place a projected material on the terrain.

The below image is of the road tool with Materials/Terrain/road/concrete.mtl assigned to it.

The road tool is a spline with a width associated, which projects a material on the terrain.

The road tool can be found in Rollup Bar > Misc

Benefits

The road tool allows the creation of areas on the terrain that have a specific tiling material, allowing quick and easy creation of roads, and also for limited use modelling terrain slopes precisely.

Properties

MTL Shows which material is currently assigned to it. Click on the button to get to the material editor where you can change texture or select another material.

Minimal Spec Used for setting in which hardware configuration the entity is rendered or not, not recommend to be changed for road tool, as road should be rendered on all specs.

BorderWidth	Only used for the Align Height Map function, this will make a smooth edge on the terrain geometry if the BorderWidth value is higher than the Width value.
StepSize	Smaller StepSize will increase the polycount used for the river surface, so for roads with smooth corners you want to use a smaller Size than the default 4.
ViewDistRadio	Specifies how far the road entity will be rendered.
TileLength	The Length of the Road Texture. Tweak this in combination with StepSize to avoid stretching textures.
SortPriority	This setting can be used if you want to have a specific road to be drawn above another road.
Shape Editing	Edit button will allow to modify, adding (CTRL click on a line) or deleting (double click on a point) of points on the line of the road shape.
Width	Sets the Width of the road per Point
Align Height Map	Will modify the terrain geometry based on the shape of the road and its border width parameter.

Editing single points

When you enter Edit mode, you can select individual points of your river. Unchecking “Default Width” will allow you to type a specific width for the road at that point in the type in box below.

Other Road Tool Parameters

Click here for the Miscellaneous Parameters reference guide.

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