schweitzerdude
Active member
When creating a route with an urban area with slopes, you need a flat spot on which to place your apartment buildings, rather than just jamming them into the slope, since you don’t want windows to be half buried. Using the plateau tool in topology is ok when you have plenty of room, but not feasible when you want to have buildings close together on a sloped street. I have been using some of the very good retaining wall splines on the DLS and then setting an apartment building on top of the wall, with the top edge of the wall aligned to a street. But because most of the retaining walls are open on the side, you need three of them at right angles to look good (four if the terrain slopes in two directions). It works but is time consuming. What I have been looking for on the DLS is an object (think of a 3 dimensional chunk of concrete with realistic textures (maybe 50m x 50m x 20m) that you could just jam into the hillside, align one edge to the level street, fine-tune the height, and your ready to set your building on top. I don’t know what you would call it, which is why I can’t find it – I tried searching using “terrace” which usually results in British semi-detached homes. If anyone is using such an object, please give me the name or the KUID. Thanks.
