How far can I see in the horizon?

[Anonymous]

I want to make a kind of fake horizon for a land model and I figured I should make a round slab that represents the horizon. What diameter should this circular slab have?

Cheers,
Mats

[Dwight]

Depends on your camera height - around a kilometer is enough - but why not use the sky/ground color differences for background that automatically locate the horizon line?

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Depends on your camera height - around a kilometer is enough - but why not use the sky/ground color differences for background that automatically locate the horizon line?

Thanks Dwight!

I'll do the horizon 1 km. I actually did a slab with 10 km radius because of some nice "ridge houses".

Do you btw now yourself or can put me in contact with an engineer working with ArchiCAD in the US/Canada. I want get an answer to the question if engineers "over there" look upwards or downwards when drawing 2D production drawings? I live in sweden and here architects draw their plans looking downwards and engineers draw their plans looking upwards. This causes mini-mayhem for me when trying to create a 3D model for producing engineering drawings. I just want to know how people do this elsewhere to see if there's a fair reason to ask GS to have a look at this of (because of my companys future interest in the GS Constructor).

Best regards,

Mats

[Anonymous]

In response to the survey question ... but nonetheless useful for a global perspective on things...

Here in Turkey ceiling plans are REFLECTED PLANS (ie. looking downwards), not WORMS-EYE VIEW (ie. looking upwards).

Wow - even Turkish site installers are able to 'reverse' a ceiling plan once on site

- Stuart

[Link]

I want to make a kind of fake horizon for a land model and I figured I should make a round slab that represents the horizon. What diameter should this circular slab have?

Here's an example of one I did in AC7. I set the site slab at a radius of 5km, because of the size of the building and the altitude I gained from my animation. I also created a gradiated color, that expanded from grey in the center (to match the carpark), to green towards the edge (to simulate grass). I also used a gradiated pattern for my background to add effect to the sky. It looks a little rough in this still, but did the trick in the animation.

Cheers,
Link.

[Dwight]

Downward plans rule.