To create a terrain mesh select 'Terrain' from the drop down box in the Create Panel in 3DS Max, you will then see a 'Terrain' button, click that button and the parameter rollups will appear, you can now set you longitude and latitude values for the location you wish to model. If you just left click in the main window now a terrain mesh will appear. If it is your first time of using the system or it is a location you have not modeled before you will see a Download box, this shows the DEM tiles being downloaded to the cache ready to be used by the system. When the downloading has been completed the mesh will be created. Once you have the mesh you can go to the Modify panel, you can now adjust the values to get the mesh just how you want it. If the location is not quite right, you can either manually set the longitude and latitude values or click the first Icon at the very top of the rollups. With that icon selected you can left click on the mesh and drag to change the location of the terrain data to position it how you want it.

A complete guide to the plugin can be found at our website the plugin Website

For any support needs please use our Support Ticket System

The installer that ran when you downloaded this plug-in from Autodesk App Store has already installed the plug-in for 2014,2015,2016 and 2017 versions. For the versions below 2014 you need to manually unzip a Rar file which contains all version of the plug-in both 32 and 64 bit. Extract the version you need to your plugin folder of your 3DS Max install directory. Also extract the EGM180.DAT and TerrainLink.exe files to the same folder.

When you first use the plugin you will be asked for a License Key, please contact us with proof of purchase to obtain you single user license key. A complete guide to the plugin can be found at our website the plugin Website. you may need to restart the Autodesk product to activate the plug-in.

To uninstall this plug-in, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1/10) or Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP), and uninstall as you would any other application from your system. If you have manually placed the plugin files just delete it from the install directory.

On some combinations of 3d cards and drivers and Windows Texture grabs can be all white or black, if this happens disable the Aero desktop feature of Windows and start a new grab. Also note grabs can take several minutes to complete and it is important to not start a new grab before the first is finished as this will confuse Google Earth and both grabs will stall. If that happens start the Task Manager and terminate any TerrainLink.exe processes running before starting a new grab.