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What Is Shade?

🧪 Shade is an experimental command.

Shade automatically creates new materials, called Landshades, and applies these to your Landshape terrain, according to their slope.

Shade can give your terrain more a more interesting look and feel.

Shade

For a temporaru special effect, try this:

• Start with an organically varied terrain surface. You could use e.g. Noise or Quake to impose variation.
• Run Shade. This creates organic zones. It will erase any initial zones.
• Run Clone Zone Bounds.
• Style your Zone Bounds Clone tag with a different dashing, e.g. dotted.

This should create an interesting visual effect. Note that to see the effect, you need to turn on Dashes in Style.

• If you want to go back to your initial zoning, you can copy your Zone Bounds Clone, then hit Undo until your original Zoning is back, then paste-in-place your dashed Zone Bounds Clone.

Expect Improvements

Shade is quite primitive.

Holygon aims to make Shade more generally useful in a future Landshape update.