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Posted Saturday, December 03, 2011 1:04 AM


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Saw this on CGArchitect.com a while back so thought I'd post it here.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=5371

It's a plugin for Max that is great for creating and optimzing terrain surfacings from contour lines or existing meshes.

I've used it on a few projects for optimizing meshes into nice grids and it works brilliant.

Laters,

Colin

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Colin Hanford
Senior Visualisation Designer

Arup

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Posted Monday, December 05, 2011 6:56 PM


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Thanks for the link, Collin!  Great tool and a fix to one of my biggest pet-peaves...

Glen Loyd

Lead Design Visualization Specialist  | Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:11 AM


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I have tried to use this script, but anything lower than 10m grids crashes my machine, and that's with splitting the contours into smaller areas.

I still find Global Mapper to be the easiest way to get our terrain data into Max.




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