Working in Wire Frame mode

I apologize if this is common knowledge to everyone else (except for me, apparently). When normally working in Wire Frame mode to tweak terrain height, I would click on the intersections of the WHITE grid to move them up or down as needed, constantly being frustrated when a quick click produced far too much movement of the point. By accident I clicked along one of the WHITE segments away from the intersection and got very, very slight movement depending on how far from the intersection I was! I had naturally assumed that I would need to click on the intersections to get movement, what a great surprise. Now I get precisely the movement I need without any frustration.

Oh well, just thought I would pass this along to those who don't know this. Thanks for reading!
 
I was aware of that but haven't actually seen it mentioned anywhere so good point bringing it up!
You can also do fine adjustments if there are any slopes around using the plateaux tool on minimum settings.
 
I use the Plateau tool when I need a good flat expanse of of terrain to put an industry or airport in. Do you know of any way to slant or taper a plateau from one height to another, such as a long airport runway that runs slightly uphill?

Thanks.
 
Thanks for the tip on the wireframe. I usually just use that for tunnels and now in TMR17 for laying track on top of the Basemapsz images.

I use the plateau tool for smoothing the edges off of railroad grades once the track has raised up the terrain. Run the cursor along the side of the grade and it removes that jagged saw tooth terrain quite nicely. Just remember to make the cursor small so it doesn't pull down the terrain from under the tracks.
 
You can change the time of day to almost dusk, and the background will be black (I prefer a semi-sweet light chocolate color)

You can type in a metric numeral, and set the radius to minimum, and touch just one corner, or all 4 corners of a 10m grid, or touch the middle of a grid line, and it will move to that height
 
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You can get a gradual slope by running a road from point a to point b and doing a "smooth spline". Keep moving the road to get a large area with an even slope. It's tedious but I don't know of a better way. Obviously you delete the road when you are done!
Mick
 
You can get a gradual slope by running a road from point a to point b and doing a "smooth spline". Keep moving the road to get a large area with an even slope. It's tedious but I don't know of a better way. Obviously you delete the road when you are done!
Mick


I have used that method on small areas but never anything as large as an airport.

Thanks.
 
I have used that method on small areas but never anything as large as an airport.

Thanks.

I've used that method to get rid of a large malformed step spreading across a Dem and also a large trench, takes a bit of time but if done carefully you'd never notice.
 
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