Place objects from the library

Objects are things that have a catalogue entry rather than an outline you draw: furniture, stones, plants. This lesson places one and adjusts it.

Pick a band

Objects go on Structures (stones), Plants and Light objects (furniture, fire). Select the tab first — an object cannot be dropped on the terrain or paths bands, which are drawn rather than populated.

Place one

1. Click Place object on the tool rail. The library opens, with the categories that band is about first and a search box for everything else.
2. Click an object. The dialog closes and the pointer is armed with it — the rail says Placing bench.
3. Click the plan, or click the ground in the 3D view. The object lands there, standing on whatever the terrain does at that spot.
4. Press Esc or click the rail's label to stop placing.

Below the Place object button, the rail keeps a quick-pick strip of the band's most useful objects, so a second bench is one click.

Adjust it

Select the object and look at the sidebar:

• Size — width, depth and height, or a single size for objects that scale evenly. Defaults come from the catalogue.
• Rotation — turn it with the transform handle, or type degrees.
• Placement — Sink into ground beds a boulder in; Raise off ground floats a deck plank. Fixed altitude pins its floor to an altitude regardless of what the terrain does.
• Ground — whether the terrain runs under it or is cut away inside its walls, for something sunk in.

Some objects have their own properties — a bench's slats, a tree's spread — which appear above the size.

Move, copy, hide

Drag it like any shape; ⌘D duplicates; the eye in its row hides it. The Layers menu in the top bar hides every object at once while you work on the ground.

Next

Plan your planting — beds and specimens on the plants band.