Terraced rice fields

[Badak]

Hi there! I just discovered GeoControl and I'm quite pleased with the landscapes I have been able to create with the demo. I would like to make terraced rice fields, but I couldn't find out how to. Is it a limitation of the demo, or is it because I still have no clue how to manipulate my terrain?

Thanks for any tips!

[Darthmagus]

Hello Badak!

Go to Terrain Shape, add filter General Forming then Four Terraces.

Philippe

[Badak]

Thanks Darthmagus for your tip, but I already tried that. It doesn't result in terraced rice fields though. What I want is to have small terraces on slopes and in valleys, not an entire mountain divided in four steps.

[cajomi]

Okay, it looks like your are trying something special.

You want to have not terraces over all, but at some parts, like it is typical for rise fields.
You can try to apply the natural terrace filter with the brush to special areas. But this terraces would still not look like made from humans.
But this is relative simple. So, first create a mountain range landscape, perhaps a typical "highland" setting. You get this, by using the filters (mountain ridged).
Then add the natural terrace filter to the filter list, activate the brush and use it in some areas. May be, the results are convincing. If not, you have to do some handwork.

First again, create the basic landscape. Then activate the brush, reduce the brushsize to the size of the terraces (seen from above). Now enable the limiter. The limiter ensure, that risings or lowerings are limited. Begin from the valleys or the peak, and use the brush with the limiter, to draw small areas with the same elevation. Change the height for the limiter in or decreasing, and paint the next terrace step. It is a bit work, but at least, you get well definied areas with the same height, humanized terraces. Keep in mind, that you may have to draw more the one time over the same parts, to get them flat.

Johannes