Help:Mobile Surveyor Ground Menu

Ground Menu

The Ground Menu allows users to sculpt and paint the terrain and add water to the world

Ground Tools

• Select the function you wish to perform by tapping on the appropriate tool. The selected tool is highlighted.
• Tap and hold on the tool to bring up any sub-menu tool options.

Height Up

• With Height Up selected, tap and hold to raise the terrain.
• Tap and drag to slowly around the world to create hills
• Adjust the radius by dragging the slider left or right.
• The size of the radius determines the area of influence the tool has.
• Adjust the sensitivity to make the tool act quicker or slower.

Height Down

• As per Height Up, except this tool lowers the terrain.

Height Adjust

• Tap and drag up or down to make fine adjustments to the terrain.

Plateau

• Tap to start creating a level area in the location of your tap.
• Tap and hold to completely flatten the terrain
• The height of the plateau us determined by the height at the location of your tap.

Plateau - Smooth

• Tap and hold the Plateau tool to bring up the additional tools
• Tap to select Smooth
• Tap the Plateau tools again to close the window
• Tap in the world to smooth the terrain at the location of your tap.
• Tap and hold or drag to continue smoothing

Plateau - Grade

• Tap and hold the Plateau tool to bring up the additional tools
• Tap to select Grade
• Tap the Plateau tools again to close the window
• Tap in the world to create a grade (i.e. consistent slope) on the terrain at the location of your tap.
• Tap and hold or drag to continue adding a grade to the terrain.

Paint

• Tap and hold to open the Paint Palette
• Select a texture from the palette
• Tap the Paint button again to close the window
• Tap and drag to paint the terrain
• Filter: Type in the selection field to filter to textures including the words. e.e. 'grass' or 'rock'
• Scale: Adjusts the texture scale
• Rotation: Rotates the direction of the texture

Add Baseboard

• Navigate to the edge of the current baseboard
• Tap Add Baseboard
• Tap off the edge of the world to add a new baseboard
• Delete: With Delete selected, tap on a baseboard and confirm you wish to delete the baseboard selected.

Water

• Tap to open the water tools

Add Water

• Tap and drag to paint the terrain with a water texture
• Adjust the radius to paint more or less water with each brush stroke.

Remove Water

• Tap and drag to erase the water texture
• Adjust the radius to erase more or less water with each brush stroke.

Adjust Water Height

• Tap and drag up or down to raise or lower the water texture

Surveyor Tools

Jump straight to the following tools menus or read more about general Surveyor functions below:

System Menu

Ground Tools (Making mountains, painting terrain etc)

Spline Tools (Tracks, roads, fences etc)

Objects Menu (Scenery, buildings, people, locos etc)

Environment Menu (Skybox, weather etc)

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