Topo lines to mesh

[YoyoBoy]

Does anyone have a good solution for turning topo lines into meshes? I own the plugin Splineland, but that creates lumps and dips wherever there is a sudden change in slope, as well as occasional other inaccuracies. Thanks.

[YoyoBoy]

Update: I was just reminded of Max's Terrain Compound object. That combined with the new retopology modifier works great!

[JuhaHo]

Has anyone tested this Splineland from iCube R&D Group? It looks kind of interesting:
https://rendering.ru/splineland.html

[glorybound]

Update: I was just reminded of Max's Terrain Compound object. That combined with the new retopology modifier works great!

Yep! That is what I use.

[glorybound]

Has anyone tested this Splineland from iCube R&D Group? It looks interesting:
https://rendering.ru/splineland.html

"almost impossible to achieve such accurate results in 3ds Max" - I am not sure what makes their plugin better than MAX's native terrain. I went to trial, but it wants payment first. It is pricey, so I am out without an actual free trial.

[JuhaHo]

For me the interesting part would be ability to add roads to the terrain model. I have also used the Mega-fiers terrain plug-in.However it doesn't work well here north of latitude 60.
http://www.west-racing.com/mf/?page_id=2979

I know there's available our national land survey terrain models as ASCII grid format. However I don't know how to import those into 3DS Max.

[TubeSmokeGuy]

Isn't Cityscape capable to make terrain with roads? https://cgpress.org/archives/citysca...-released.html

[fixeighted]

JuhaHo There is a viewer called ERDAS ER Viewer that will allow you to save out a high res tiff of terrain to use as displacement etc.
That came in very handy on a recent project as it deals with other survey formats too.
If you can access version 6 of Max then there is an import script on Scriptspot too.
Don't know how useful these may be but that seems to be the only available option, although ^Lele^ suggested in another post that it was simple to Maxscript this import

[Franx]

I'm still using the old Populate:Terrain script from Marc Lorenz
https://github.com/mxdsa/populateTerrain (make sure to get the 1.87 version)
Outputs contour lines directly to quads, with resolution control.

[OPEN_RANGE]

If you do use max compound terrain object and retopology, try using normalize spline modifier on the topo spline object first. Makes for a cleaner more organized result