Hi Don,
After quite a while (likely I failed in my first trial because of my own deficiencies) I decided trying again TS and I'm impressed now, after finalising a first project, how smooth the tool works even if I I used the one or other meander before finding the right way of doing. It's indeed a time saver and I never would have attempted to start the project without the perspective of using the support of a specialised tool. However, I do have a few remarks, but I'm not sure whether there are still solutions.
- I missed the possibility changing the type of a polygon after importing or producing one (I may have failed to find the right way of doing it). This time I used ADE in order to set the right poly on top for me.
- Importing for instance a flatten poly from SBuilder destroys everything else (the blend poly and all sculpt nodes, too). It would be nice (if ever possible) to import something without effecting the other objects (at least as an option, triggered by a selection telling TS what to import). I tried to 'repair' the used poly type this way and failed.
- The way of adding nodes seems to be not always easy. When trying to add such nodes at the A/C position it often didn't work for me if no existent other node was marked before. It took a while before I realised this.
- I would wish having a button or even a pre-set taking of the local elevation similar to ADE when adding a node at the A/C's position (or maybe I didn't find the setting).
- In my observation the landscape produced by the triangulation has some visible lines where the triangles are bordering to each other. It's usually not visible in steep areas (the southern part in the picture below) but unfortunately even more in a undulating environment like northwest ot the flattened area. Probably the distances between the sculpture nodes are too big?
EDIT (much later):
That's an example what happens in some areas.
(The pic shows my attempt to make UTX TAC's airport MUCU looking a bit better - actually it does, even with some deficiencies)
Actually, I very much appreciated that the software behaved more stable in some aspects as it seemed at the first glance. After receiving error messages I always saved my work immediately by using a different name, closed down TS, rebooted it, and so on, but later I decided not to reboot the software before saving and going on with my work - successfully (lucky me?). BTW, this never worked with SBuilder - and I know about the risks (it was a test).
This time I'd not been prepared sending each and every error message (I'd rather to do too much with myself), but in future I promise you'll get them. My impression was that it always had been the same type of error, probably triggered by an error.
Don, it's a wonderful piece of work, thank you very much. I hope that Jon finds the time to produce the ADE interface one day, but I can perfectly understand that other 'forces' (or interests) may set different priorities.