What's the secret to getting level ground?

[oauer]

It's killing me to not be able to get it level.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

Hold control and use your terrain gun.

Press F1 in-game for controls list.

[space is cool]

Originally posted by oauer:

It's killing me to not be able to get it level.

You can adjust it by lowering or highering the ground below the pipe, you can visually see this adjust it. Though sometimes they may go down even if showing that they are going straight, so you may need to compensate for this and bring the ground up higher so that it evens it out.

[Ilruz]

Just in the middle of the targetm there is a white dot - terrain will be leveled like the facet just under the white dot. Keep an eye on that, it's easy to make a full flat surface or create ramps, etc.

[SourceUnknown]

When you first land, your habitat pod is going to be the closest thing to level ground. Get the terrain tool circle as close to the pod as possible without targeting the pod. Hold CNTRL and make a spiral like circle around your pod and outward as far as you can. Now you have some level ground to start referencing when you want to extend it outwards. Once you are ready to extend the level ground outwards, place the circle on level ground, hold CNTRL and move outwards to extend. I hope that makes sense!
I find starting over if I have landed on a great deal of rocks and boulders in the way. For some reason I cant even bury them, so I delete the save and restart the map again.

Look up Targa. He is one of the communities Terrain designers. He has a lot of tips and you can view a lot of what he has done to perfect terrain design. He has inspired me to restart my base once I seen what he could do with the terrain! Its impressive, but tedious and takes time till the Devs can make it a little easier for us.

[Targa]

I've had enough requests at this point that I figured I'd make a short video. I hope it helps!

http://steamcommunity.com/app/361420/discussions/0/152393186480819692/

[boom]

thank you, this was helpful. I couldn't quite figure out the method to it even though I've gotten it a few times.

[Lil Puppy]

Technically it's the "smooth tool" as there's no such thing as level in this game (would love a leveling tool).

Normal = dig
CTRL = smooth
ALT = fill