vvoovv
Changing defaults for profiles (roads etc)? Possible?
Hi @vvoovv
Importing a bunch of tiles to make a full city, which is then going to be exported out to FBX.
Is there a way to change the default profile widths so I can make roads a little wider on import, without having to adjust manually for every import I do?
Thanks!
I was hoping I could do this numerically, where roads have a certain width in meters or other units, and I can just edit the numbers and see roads update.
From the docs: "Perform scaling of the profle vertices or simply move them. The corresponding road or path will change interactively as you edit its profile."
Full disclosure, I come from a C4D background, and not so great at Blender. As far as I can tell, these curves are not "lines" with a dimension to them (equivalent in C4D is a line object you set object properties to whatever dimensions/length you want)? They're lines defined by a start and end point, and thus have no property "length" that can be input with numbers?
Yes, but "after import" means if I need to make 20 tiles to reassemble the city, I need to adjust the profiles in 20 files and hope they're the same, since I can't seem to change them numerically, and instead have to scale them by eyeball. Is this correct?
Is there a way to scale them and somehow resave the default that Bl-OSM is pulling in when the import occurs, so that I can set and forget?
Thanks
All you tiles should share the same profile objects. Edit a profile object for one tile and it will be update for the other tiles. It's also possible to edit the profile objects in a script.
I'm not sure what you mean. Where is the file containing the profile objects, so I can edit them and have that apply to all future imports?
Can we also change the default base mesh resolution for all terrain imports?
Just keep those profile objects for subsequent imports. They will be reused by subsequent imports.
Then I need to import /append them every time I want to use blOSM. Is there no way to change the defaults??
Also how about the base resolution of the terrain. I want a less dense mesh more often than not.
Save the file with the profiles and use it for your imports.
Use the option Ratio on the terrain panel to reduce the terrain resolution.
Ratio has preset values we can't change. So its 100% or 25% and down. Can't input 90%, 50%. Isn't the terrain a displacement coming from a heightmap, so we should be able to set polycount to anything really?
I see. So ratio limitations are a result of what point arrays OSM supplies via API or blender/blOSM is doing something to reduce point count on application of the ratio setting? If you could kindly explain in more than a few words I would know how to proceed or what I am limited to working with in a different way. EG I have a remesh going because 100% is too high and 25% is too low but the remesh is also very slow. Another option is I bake out a height map in 8 or 16k then apply that as displacement to a plane where I can put any subdivisions I want. But I am asking as those seem like workarounds and I had hoped there was a simpler way. OK if not, but that is what I am trying to understand.