Visual Nature Studio 3 Feature of the Week
Years in the making, VNS 3 is the biggest 3D Nature upgrade ever.
With features that immediately benefit everyone from beginner to advanced users, VNS 3 is already producing great results in the projects of visualization experts around the world.Each week our Feature of the Week will focus on one of the new cutting-edge features VNS 3 offers. This week's feature is:
Smart Lakes
If you've ever tried visualizing the state of Minnesota, or just a region full of numerous small lakes, you've encountered the bottleneck of having to create lots of Lake components to customize the water elevation of each. Starting with VNS 1, the Thematic Maps feature allowed you to link the water level to an attribute on your polygons to specify the lake surface elevation, but what if you didn't have such an elevation attribute? Or worse yet, what if you had one, but it didn't agree with the terrain?
Enter VNS 3's Smart Lakes. With just a click of a button, you can create as many lakes as you want with different water levels, all from one single Lake component. By selecting the "Relative to Vector Low Elevation" control, your lake level is now automatically determined at render-time from the lowest point on the vector defining the lake perimeter. Now hundreds, if not thousands of unique lakes are simple and efficient to create.
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