Getting Started
with VNS 3: Lakes &
Streams
Part 6F. Streams
1. The stream will have foliage
we'd like to see, so open the Lake View View Preferences. Turn to the Land Cover/Water
page and enable Other Foliage to render Ecosystem foliage.
2. That will include the Pine
Burn Ecosystem, which we don't need to render yet. Expand
the Ecosystems category in the lower Scene-at-a-Glance and disable it.
3. Go to the Water Task Mode
and select the Streams category. Add Component from
Gallery.
4. Load the Small Stream.
5. Find the Stream Vector
in the lower Scene-at-a-Glance. Instead of clicking and dragging the
vector, let's connect it to the Stream in another way. Right-click
the vector and Copy Component.
6. Expand the Streams
category in the upper Scene-at-a-Glance.
Select the Small Stream Component and Paste Component.
Confirm the operation.
7. Save the project and render
a preview. The Pine Burn Ecosystem has been disabled so all we're
seeing is Ground Effect and Stream.
8. The stream is not rendering
in the entire width of the stream bed. While the Stream
Terraffector radius is 15 meters, the Small Stream
Component Effect Radius is only 6.7 meters.
9. Increase it to 16 meters
and Spline Vectors.
10. Save the project and render
a preview.
11. The Small Stream elevation
is too high where it enters the Lake. According to the
Diagnostic
Data, the Stream elevation is about
2065.3 meters at the confluence relative to the Lake's
is 2063. That makes the stream about 2.3 meters
too high.
12. Go to the Water page
Depth tab and decrease the Water Depth from -0.3
to -2.6 meters.
13. Save the project and render
a preview.
14. Enable
the Pine Burn Ecosystem.
15. Let's see how the Lake
View renders with trees. Save the project and render a preview.
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