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Chapter 27: Working with Compound Objects
2. In the Left view, select and move the ellipses up and down so that the largest one is on the bottom and
the smallest one is on top. You can create two smaller hills by including two ellipses at the same level.
Note
If you create the ellipses in the proper order from largest to smallest, then you can use the Select All command. If
not, then select the splines in the order that they’ll be connected from top to bottom before clicking on the
Terrain button. n
3. Use the Edit ➪ Select All (Ctrl+A) menu command to select all the ellipses, and select Create ➪
Compound ➪ Terrain.
The ellipses automatically join together. Joining all the ellipses forms the island.
4. In the Color by Elevation rollout, select a Reference Elevation of 5 and click the Create Defaults button.
This automatically creates color zones for the island. The elevation values for each zone are displayed
in a list within the Color by Elevation rollout. Selecting an elevation value in the list displays its color
in the color swatch.
5. Select each elevation value individually, and set all Zones to Blend to the Color Above option for
all zones, except for the Zone with the lightest blue.
This creates a distinct break between the sea and the land of the island.
Figure 27.9 shows the final terrain. In an example later in this chapter, you’ll use the Scatter compound
object to add trees to the small terrain island.
FIGURE 27.9
A Terrain island created with the Terrain compound object

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