Don't like your model floating in space? Do you find your avatar falling off the side of the model when you have gravity on? You probably need a ground plane. You may want to bring in an accurate terrain map from Civil 3D but for many of you, you're only dealing with the building itself, in which case a simple flat ground plane will do the job.
The link below will let you download a zip file with 9 ground planes, there's 3 sizes, 10m x 10m, 100m x 100m and 1000m x 1000m, and 3 materials, Grass, Concrete and Asphalt.
Simply Append one to your model and move it underneath the building model, and like magic you'll have a surrounding area to walk around, a better area for visualisations and you'll be able to get a better idea of scale.
For the more advanced users, you can modify the material in Presenter and replace it with a aerial image (e.g. from Google Maps) or a more suitable texture.
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Hi Lambertus,
You can quickly change these by opening Presenter and applying a Water material to the ground plane.
We'll look at adding a few more soon but modifying these ones should help you in the short term.
Lee
Posted by: Lee Mullin | 10/31/2011 at 02:34 PM
Do you have probably also water as a groundplane?
I work at Royal Huisman and we build custom sailing yachts.
Posted by: Lambertus Oosterveen | 10/30/2011 at 01:00 PM