Creating terrain: problem with Layered Solid

[silk.zither]

Creating a big 3D terrain. Drew the contours using lines (Creation Method > Initial Type > Smooth); then went to Geometry > Compound Objects and hit terrain button and the terrain magically appeared.

Problem is, the Layered Solid effect isn't working well. Rather than a rice-terrace effect, I get a chaotic mess!

Help! I want my rice-terrace.

[silk.zither]

Help anyone?? Ideas? Suggestions?

I'm new to Max. so still learning the basics.

Only other way I can think of is to turn those contour lines into flat planes and then extrude them individually. Can someone give me a rundown on how to do that? I.e. turn those lines/splines into planes and then extrude them individually to get the terrace effect.

Thanks!

[domo.spaji · Accepted solution]

Set Interpolation Steps to 0 in Lines/Splines - that's the shape Terrain will use.

To get more details and curves you need more vertices on splines.

Apply Normalize Spline modifier to all lines and set segment length, lower value - more vertices.

[silk.zither]

You're awesome!