Pressing 'Y' doesn't make terrain fit to track

yerkes · Post by **yerkes** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:35 pm

Can anyone advise me here (sorry if this has been answered before - I have tried looking around the forum, honest!)?

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When I press 'Y' to make the terrain fit to the track, I end up with the track as shown - i.e. some of the track is still submerged beneath the terrain. I've tried lowering some of the (DEM) terrain which has helped a bit but obviously I don't want to mess around too much with it.

Hope this makes sense - I'm still learning as you can tell...

Michael
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bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:49 pm

Sometimes on a tile edge you need to attach the next section of track before the terrain polygon displays correctly on the one as shown. In addition check the min/max height values for the affected tile. In some instances you may also need to set an error bias of 0.0 to eliminate terrain jaggies.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:05 pm

yep that will be down to a different minimum height value on the 2 tiles.

yerkes · Post by **yerkes** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:29 pm

Bingo, it works! Many thanks for your assistance.

Michael
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dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:11 am

Also, if the track is on a gradient, you will need to start at the top of the hill, working your way down the gradient, track piece by piece, pressing "Y" as you go!