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Terrain & Landscape

> You can create hills, mountains, hollows or ponds in the Terrain layer of the Layout window.

> Creating a Mountain

> There are two ways to create "mountain" terrain. You can generate the terrain by importing a grayscale image file (PICT, JPEG, BMP or TIFF). White pixels are high, black pixels are low and gray pixels are in-between. You can also generate the terrain automatically by selecting the menu item "Generate automatically".
> You can move and resize the terrain by dragging. If there is an elevated terrain on ground track cells with a track then a tunnel for the track will be created automatically.

> Terrain layer on Layout window

> Creating a hollow or a pond

> If "hollow" checkbox is checked then a mountain terrain is turned into a hollow. If "water in a hollow" checkbox is checked then the hollow terrain is turned into pond.

> Terrain and Landscape tab on Terrain Window

> Edit Terrain Color

> You can select the color of the terrain in the Terrain window by defining high, middle, low elevation and hollow colors.

> Setting Landscape

> You can select the kind of sky texture in the Terrain window or choose fog if you like. These settings affect the 3D views.