in the next weeks i have to do a job on creating a cross section of a landscape in cinmea 4d. it has to be highly detailed. so does anybody has tipps for me.? it should be something like the picture.

If you have a heightmap, you can use the relief primitive to sculpt your landscape (max. resolution is 1000x1000). Then extrude the side planes and use a planar mapping for texturing. Texture the landscape and populate it with plants and objects as needed.

Just one way to do it.

Another way would be the SurfSPREAD plugin.

Thanks for your help. do you know a special place where to find hight maps?

I have done this a few times for science text books, and for the most part I have used Bryce landscapes I created with either USGS DEM height images, or through careful greyscale painting and montage in Photoshop, I have then either completed the task in Bryce, or imported the terrain into CINEMA, and textured it there. I have also used Vue to do a couple of these, but you cannot rely on its stability!

The SurfaceSPREAD plugin really will help you bring the reality to this kind of job in C4D now though, and that would be my approach on future projects of this type.

Adam

Adam Benton | www.kromekat.com

okay thanks kromekat. I'll chech that plugin.