I will take a note and come back to it. Currently I am drowning in work 🥴.

Thanks! Did not do the shot myself, but as far as I know this was some AI-video retouch.

Thanks! Appreciate the feedback!

What software ur team use?

Hey James - sorry, would not know anything about reimports from UE :(. Normally a good exchange format is FBX, no? But that does not say anything about precisision.

​@@XoioDeWith FBX, I encounter many problems like faces disappearing and textures being inverted. With glTF, this doesn't happen... but I was referring to importing and exporting from Blender for Blender. For example, I create a mesh that I will use in another project still in Blender, so I need to export this mesh to have it in a new Blender file... I recalculate the normals, apply the transformations, in short, I do everything necessary to have perfect geometry and a clean mesh. However, when I export and re-import, everything goes to hell. For instance, on a flat face like a plane, it adds loop cuts that I never made... Should I perhaps use OBJ if I am only working within Blender?

Glad the video could help - really!

Thanks - I hope I get around one day to do more tutorials. With feedback like this - I might :).

Sorry, what do mean by stl? The import format? If yes, it all depends on the mesh you get, but maybe if it is just a trail it makes sense to quickly retrace it with a curve from top view before you shrinkwrap it. You will get a better mesh and result.

The STL is the file to create 3D print. I’m a newbie and was excited to find your video. I would have to spend time learning how to create a curve, etc.

@@Inboundskier Sometimes unfortunately you have to dig deeper to get stuff working :). The STL - as soon as it is inside Blender is just a regular mesh - from that point on it really depends if the resulting mesh is good enough to be projected, because you need some persistent vertex density otherwise it will look bad. But maybe your import from STL is good enough! Creating a curve would be good, but involves a few steps. It is really not that much of a deal - should be plenty of tutorials. Good luck!

Ok, meebee :). Will consider it next time - bought that mike from a friend, so no manuals for me. Thanks!

There is easy methode to create road

Why should I ? Thanks!

Thanks, I take this as a compliment. Sure subscribe, I just ahven't found resources lately to do new videos ... maybe soon again!

Good - good ! Glad there was something in there. (Cleaning out crap meshes seems like something AI will not bother doing :) ).

Thanks - I must admit - I am myself not so familiar with the setup. But true, probably having smooth transitions / rounded corners helps with the effect.

@@XoioDe Yes I got some help and was able to figure it out. If you use the Object output from texture coordinates node but isolate the Z vector and use that instead of normal from geometry node you are using the Z height which gets you the transitional effect on a default cube or default sphere.

If you use the normal it only works when there are changes in the "normals" directions and since almost no side is flat you get a solid transition for the whole object. Or how it was explained to me.

Thanks for your feedback! Glad that it helped!

We render mostly with Coronarender these days.

I tried now - hope it helps - might be quite a lot of weird translations though ;).

@@XoioDe Так, велике спасибі. Чи можу я попросити зробити те саме для інших твоїх відео? Yes, thank you very much. Can I ask to do the same for your other videos?

It really depends what you want to do. If you do terrains for game it's different than doing a terrain for a realistic animation. Personally I always try to start with realism: So go on Google earth, find something that reflects what you want to do and take this as a reference. What you do with it at the end is up to you.

It helps if you know roughly how big the terrain should be from start. Max should generally not get slower by the size of terrain, while the polygon count should be kept in consideration. But the width of roads is something you can find out. It surely helps to have a smaller test terrain to get familiar with the process.

Update, it has to be in object mode to be affected.

Ha, great that helped!

Glad this is useful, good luck!

sorry about my silly and noob question. I got it and it works flawlessly! thank you so much for precious tutorial!

Thanks for the feedback and the appreciation. I might find my way back to some tutorials at some point.

Absolutely - there are many roads (literally) to rome. As said I tried to convert a 3ds-Max workflow we did to Blender. Thanks for the comment!

Hard to tell from distance. But it seems you moved the road. Can't you push it back looking at it from above?

@@XoioDe no, its irreparable, i have to do the track again. in some places its offset to the right and some places to the left. At first I thought it happened because maybe I moved the track up in edit mode before extruding instead of object mode, but it happened in both. I think maybe I took extrusion axis as Z global and not Z normal. So if face normals are bad it can mess up ?

@@XoioDe It also happens if I apply boolean modifier on the ground mesh instead of track.mesh

@@SuzieRussel The only thing I can recommend from distance is going back to the step when you extrude the road to the sides with the solidify. Here you should be able to make sure it is right spot on. Additionally the Shrinkwrap might have been the issue, using the wrong projection axis. Good luck!

Thanks for the positive feedback. Concerning your last point: Hard to tell from afar. From my experience the scale of the noise could be too small, which results in very weird spikes. Otherwise in general the scales are off. I normally avoid scaling stuff directly in Max, because you don't see it and stuff starts to behave really strange. Hope that gave some insight.

@@XoioDe I figured it out. I adopted meters on my user settings to follow along with your tutorial, but I neglected to change the system units. It didn't cause a problem until the third example. On the last example, what did you use to apply the gradient map as the texture? I tried Physical Material and all I got was stripes.

@@brandmaccus I don't quite remember, man. Such a long time ago, but somehow it's the coordinates that make the difference.

@@XoioDe three years isn't that long. My mentor asked me if I had rendered the scene... It renders perfectly. Viewport, not so much. I hope that you haven't stopped making tutorials.