Methods for creating golf bunker in terrain?

[Anonymous]

I'm working on a golf model and I've got most of the large scale stuff figured out. I'm struggling, however, with modeling sand bunkers into the terrain.

The bunkers I have already have their depth added, but I need to create a nearly vertical lip around the edges to cast shadows and then I need to apply a separate "dirt" material to those vertical faces.

Things I've tried in the past:

- Shapemerge the bunker outline into the terrain. Clone the interior faces down a few inches on the Z-axis. Delete the original faces. Bridge the edge loops.

This method doesn't work very well because the Shapemerge creates a ton of vertices around the edge loop. When you bridge the loops, it makes a lot of crazy angular geometry. It's also very uniform (lacking the ability to vary the height of the lip) and hard to modify/adjust.

- Tesselate the surface where the bunker will be to increase the polygon density, then paint deform the bunker lip into place as best as possible.

[hagen.deloss]

Hi @Anonymous 

Thanks for bringing your question to the forums, it looks like you are visiting as a new member to the 3DS Max forum. I want to extend a warm welcome to the Autodesk Community!

To best answer your question, I think folks would need to see a screenshot or example of some sort. Or better yet, if you could post an example scene for people to look at, I think you will get a lot of answers on a variety of modelling techniques!

Looking forward to help on this 😄

[irishman_team_kilber]

@Anonymouswe already talked about this about a month or so ago

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/modeling-golf-course-bunkers-into-existing-terrain/m-p/...

[hagen.deloss]

@Anonymous 

Any ideas or questions on my previous post? It would be helpful if you had time to give an update, that way other Community Members can benefit from your process 😄

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

[flyingc007]

A tutorial about how to dig a bunker.There are a lot of tools that allow you to add more details